Senior Manager, Compensation

The Senior Manager, Compensation serves as a strategic, consultative partner to HR leaders and senior business leaders, delivering compensation solutions that drive performance, enable growth, and support organizational transformation. This role requires strong business acumen, experience navigating complex environments (including M&A and integration), and exposure to private equity-backed equity programs.

The ideal candidate brings high energy, intellectual curiosity, and progressive career growth in compensation leadership, with demonstrated experience managing peer equity and pay fairness across a blended workforce (e.g., high-tech, corporate, and operational populations).

What You'll Do

Strategic Business Partnership

• Act as a consultative advisor to CHRO, HR Business Partners and Recruiting executive and senior leadership on compensation strategy, pay decisions, incentive design, and talent trade-offs.
• Navigate complex peer equity and internal pay fairness considerations across technical, corporate, and operational employee groups.
• Translate business strategy into scalable compensation frameworks that drive retention, engagement, and performance.
• Provide data-driven recommendations supported by market benchmarking, internal equity analysis, and financial modeling.

Compensation Strategy & Program Design

• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of base pay, short-term incentive (STI), and long-term incentive (LTI) programs.
• Develop compensation structures that support a blended workforce model, balancing market competitiveness for high-tech talent with operational workforce scalability and internal equity.
• Partner with Finance and HR to align compensation expense planning with budget and operating targets.

Peer Equity & Pay Fairness Governance

• Conduct internal equity reviews and proactively identify compression, inversion, and parity risks.
• Guide leaders through sensitive pay decisions, ensuring defensible and consistent outcomes.
• Support pay transparency efforts and fairness initiatives while maintaining competitive positioning in differentiated labor markets.
• Establish governance frameworks that maintain consistency while allowing flexibility for critical skill sets.

M&A and Integration Support

• Support due diligence efforts for acquisitions, including compensation program assessment, incentive plan alignment, and risk analysis.
• Lead compensation integration planning and execution, including harmonization of pay structures, incentive plans, and equity programs across diverse employee populations.
• Develop retention and transition compensation strategies aligned to transaction objectives.

Equity & Private Equity Exposure

• Partner with executive leadership and ownership stakeholders on equity administration.
• Support administration and communication of equity plans, performance units, or other PE-backed equity structures.
• Ensure equity strategy aligns with ownership objectives and retention priorities.

Governance & Compliance

• Ensure compensation programs comply with regulatory requirements and internal governance standards.
• Develop and maintain compensation policies and documentation.
• Lead annual compensation cycles (merit, bonus planning, equity grants), ensuring disciplined execution and stakeholder alignment.

Team mentorship

• Mentor and develop colleagues in HR to implement and manage compensation programs in their client groups.
• Foster a culture of analytical rigor, fairness, and consultative service delivery.

What You Bring

Required Experience

• 8+ years of progressive compensation experience with increasing scope and business partnership responsibility.
• Demonstrated experience advising senior leaders in a consultative capacity.
• Experience navigating peer equity and internal pay fairness across diverse workforce populations.
• Experience supporting M&A transactions and post-acquisition integration.
• Exposure to private equity environments and equity compensation programs.
• Strong analytical capability with advanced Excel and financial modeling skills.

Preferred

• Experience in a high-growth, PE-backed, or transformation-oriented organization.
• Experience supporting a blended workforce model (e.g., technical, corporate, and operational roles).
• CCP certification (or progress toward certification).

Competencies & Leadership Profile

• Consultative Influencer: Advises and challenges senior leaders with credibility and data-backed insights.
• Equity Steward: Demonstrates sound judgment in managing peer equity, compression risks, and fairness governance.
• Business Acumen: Understands financial drivers and value creation in PE-backed environments.
• High Energy & Drive: Thrives in fast-paced, evolving environments and proactively identifies improvement opportunities.
• Analytical Rigor: Strong quantitative skills with disciplined attention to detail.
• Change Agility: Effective navigating ambiguity, integration, and transformation.
• Progressive Growth Trajectory: Clear pattern of expanding responsibility and impact over time.

What We Offer

• Workfrom anywhere in the US!Machinifyis digital-first.
• Top Medical/Dental/Vision offerings
• FSA/HSA
• Tuition reimbursement
• Competitive salary, 401(k) with company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Additional health and wellness benefits and perks
• Flexible and trusting environment where you'll feel empowered to do your best work

The salary for this position is based on an array of factors unique to each candidate: Such as years and depth of experience, set skills, certifications,etc.We are hiring fordifferent levels, and our Recruiting team will let you know if you qualify for a different role/range.Salary is onecomponentof the total compensation package, which includes meaningful equity, excellent healthcare, flexible time off, and other benefits andperks.