[Hiring] Lead Compensation Consultant @AAA-The Auto Club Group

Role Description

This position is currently able to work remotely from a home office location for day-to-day operations unless occasional travel for meetings, collaborative activities, or team building activities is specified by leadership. This is subject to change based on amendments and/or modifications to the ACG Flex Work policy.

Position Schedule: Monday- Friday 8am- 5pm

Leads the Compensation function’s expertise and governance work by establishing advanced system compensation governance, directing Skills Cloud architecture, governing job architecture and job family classifications, and executing organization-wide compensation modeling. Provides authoritative strategic guidance, establishes enterprise controls and standards, resolves the most complex escalations, and leads multi-resource functional initiatives that strengthen compensation governance, compliance, system integrity, and business decision-making.

Supervisory Responsibilities

• None. Leads multi-resource functional work and provides authoritative technical direction, quality oversight, coaching, and governance guidance to Compensation team members and cross-functional resources.

Key Responsibilities

• Systems & Governance: Establish advanced system compensation governance, EIB security controls, data-quality standards, approval protocols, audit requirements, and sustainable operating controls.
• Skills Cloud Architecture: Lead Skills Cloud architecture, including taxonomy alignment, proficiency governance, job-profile integration, and connection to career frameworks and workforce-planning processes.
• Job Architecture: Review material role changes, govern job family and career-level classifications, maintain job architecture standards, and make formal FLSA determinations.
• Advanced Modeling: Execute organization-wide compensation modeling and department pay-compression analyses; evaluate enterprise implications and develop defensible structural recommendations for leadership decisions.
• Controls & Enablement: Review and govern ServiceNow compensation requests, manage Job Architecture Hub compliance, update executive dashboards, identify control exceptions, and direct corrective action.
• Strategic Guidance: Serve as an authoritative compensation advisor on complex governance, job architecture, modeling, policy, regulatory, and system matters; recommend industry best practices and enterprise solutions.
• Functional Leadership: Lead multi-resource functional projects through design, implementation, and adoption; establish direction, integrate cross-functional work, and resolve complex escalations with significant organizational impact.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management, Business Administration, Finance, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related field.
• No specific license or certification is required.
• Minimum eight (8) years of progressive compensation experience, including significant experience in broad-based compensation, job architecture, compensation systems, and enterprise governance within complex organizations.
• Experience establishing advanced system compensation controls, governing job and skills architecture, and designing sustainable standards, audit mechanisms, and decision frameworks.
• Experience executing organization-wide compensation modeling and pay-compression analysis, advising senior leadership, resolving high-impact escalations, and leading multi-resource functional initiatives.

Knowledge of

• Expert-level compensation governance, job architecture, job family and career-level classification, market pricing, salary structures, pay compression, organization-wide modeling, and executive decision support.
• Advanced Workday compensation governance, EIB security controls, Skills Cloud architecture, Job Architecture Hub compliance, ServiceNow workflows, data integrity, executive dashboards, and audit-ready controls.
• Federal and state compensation laws and regulations, including formal FLSA classification requirements, pay-equity obligations, pay-transparency requirements, recordkeeping, and governance controls.

Skills

• Expert compensation modeling, systems governance, job architecture, data interpretation, risk assessment, control design, and enterprise problem-solving skills.
• Exceptional strategic consultation, executive communication, influence, judgment, functional leadership, stakeholder alignment, escalation management, and change-enablement skills.

Ability to

• Set enterprise direction and governance standards for compensation systems, job architecture, skills architecture, controls, and complex compensation decision-making.
• Synthesize complex business, workforce, market, regulatory, and system information into authoritative recommendations for executives and senior leaders.
• Lead multi-resource initiatives, influence across functions without direct authority, make sound decisions under ambiguity, and resolve the most complex compensation escalations.

Preferred

• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Certified Employee Benefit Specialist (CEBS), SHRM certification, or comparable professional credential.
• Advanced knowledge of Workday Compensation, Skills Cloud, reporting, EIB processes, Job Architecture Hub governance, and ServiceNow workflows.
• Knowledge of ACG Human Resource policies, procedures, systems, compensation programs, and external compensation survey practices.

Work Environment

This position is currently able to work remotely from a home office location for day-to-day operations unless occasional travel for meetings, collaborative activities, or team building activities is specified by leadership. This is subject to change based on amendments and/or modifications to the ACG Flex Work policy.

Compensation & Benefits Overview

• The annual salary range for this position is $107,827- $155,000 with annual bonus potential, based on performance.
• At ACG, we offer a comprehensive and flexible benefits package designed to support your health, financial well-being, and professional growth.

Benefits

• Medical plans with multiple coverage options, including HSA eligibility.
• Prescription drug coverage.
• Dental and vision benefits.
• Employee Assistance Program (confidential support services).
• Company-paid basic life insurance.
• Optional supplemental life insurance and dependent coverage.
• Short-term and long-term disability coverage.
• Critical illness, accident, and pet insurance options.
• 401(k) plan to support long-term financial goals.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) options.
• Paid Time Off (PTO): Accrual-based, increases with tenure, eligible at 90 days of employment.
• Paid Holidays: Full-time employees are eligible for 10 company-paid holidays annually.
• Paid leave programs, including parental, bereavement, jury duty, and military leave.
• Tuition assistance.
• Professional certification support with 100% reimbursement for eligible programs.
• Opportunities for career development and advancement.
• Complimentary AAA membership with roadside assistance and travel discounts.
• Adoption assistance program.

Job Posting Period

This position is expected to remain posted through 10/23/2026; however, it may close at any time once a qualified candidate pool is identified.