[Hiring] Senior Compensation Analyst @Payscale

Role Description

Payscale's Compensation Services team partners strategically with clients across their entire compensation journey. We help organizations build foundational compensation strategies, design competitive pay structures, establish job families and level frameworks, and enhance pay transparency and communications—serving as trusted advisors who guide clients through complex compensation decisions across diverse industries, geographies, and organizational complexities. Our role is to combine deep compensation expertise with data-driven insights from Payscale's platform to deliver tangible, measurable outcomes that help clients build defensible, strategic compensation programs.

What You'll Do:

• Own Moderately Complex Client Engagements: Serve as project manager on moderately complex compensation projects, often requiring solutions from multiple functional areas; deliver client work with limited oversight.
• Execute Comprehensive Compensation Solutions: Independently manage all project types within our service offerings, from stakeholder alignment and strategy development through structure modeling, job family frameworks, policy documentation, and communications training—tailoring approaches to unique client circumstances.
• Provide Advanced Compensation Expertise: Deliver sophisticated benchmarking and market pricing analysis across multiple industries and geographies; develop and recommend salary structures; demonstrate expertise in job architecture and family frameworks.
• Lead Escalations and Complex Conversations: Participate actively in tough client conversations alongside more senior team members; assist in developing and implementing solutions for complex compensation issues.
• Support Revenue Team: Provide compensation expertise on prospect and renewal calls, helping the revenue team position capabilities and address client compensation questions.
• Mentor and Develop Team: Serve as a mentor to Compensation Analyst I and II team members; participate in onboarding new team members; provide guidance, job shadowing, and quality control review of junior staff work.
• Drive Internal Improvement: Manage and update internal documentation; identify opportunities for process improvement and team skill development.
• Contribute Strategic Perspective: Bring industry and client insights to team discussions; participate in departmental strategic initiatives as delegated by management.

Qualifications

• 5-6 years of hands-on compensation experience, with demonstrated expertise across multiple compensation discipline areas.
• Deep working knowledge of:
  • Benchmarking and market pricing across a variety of industries, geographies, and data sources.
  • Salary structure design, development, and analysis.
  • Job architecture, job family frameworks, and job leveling.
  • Compensation strategy development and implementation.
• Strong project management skills with demonstrated ability to independently manage moderately complex client engagements, potentially involving cross-functional teams.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to communicate sophisticated compensation concepts clearly to client stakeholders at various levels.
• Advanced Excel proficiency and strong data analysis capabilities.
• Demonstrated track record of mentoring and supporting other professionals in their development.
• Basic proficiency or demonstrated ability to quickly learn compensation software platforms.

Requirements

• Client-facing experience delivering complex consulting services to external clients (nice to have).
• Experience with global job architecture and international compensation structures (nice to have).
• Knowledge of variable pay structure design (incentive compensation, bonus structures) (nice to have).
• Experience with pay equity analysis and pay transparency initiatives (nice to have).
• Familiarity with Payscale's benchmarking and services platform (nice to have).
• Certification in compensation, such as CCP (nice to have).
• Background in consulting or professional services delivery (nice to have).

Benefits

• Flexible paid time off, giving you the opportunity to rest, relax and recharge away from work.
• 14 Paid Company Holidays, includes 2 floating holidays (you choose!).
• A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale.
• Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans.
• Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family.
• 401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents.
• Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period.
• Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations.
• Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment.