Business Operations Lead, Compensation & Equity
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will lead high-priority compensation and equity projects from analysis through execution. You will build models and decision frameworks, advise senior stakeholders, improve company-wide compensation processes, develop tools and dashboards, automate recurring work with AI, and assess compensation practices against market data, hiring needs, retention risk, budgets, and internal equity.
Requirements
- 4-8 years of experience in business operations, corporate strategy, consulting, finance, people strategy, total rewards, or another analytical operating role
- Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving skills
- Strong Excel or Google Sheets modeling skills
- Experience building executive-facing analyses, operating models, decision memos, or board-level materials
- Practical AI fluency
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills
- Emotional intelligence and discretion
- Ability to work onsite from the New York office three or more days per week
Responsibilities
- Lead compensation and equity projects from problem definition through execution
- Build analytical models and decision frameworks for compensation bands, equity grants, refresh programs, promotion cycles, retention offers, international compensation, incentives, and executive scenarios
- Partner with People, Talent, Finance, Legal, Sales, Product, Engineering, and executive leaders
- Run and improve merit cycles, promotion cycles, equity refreshers, offer governance, and special compensation reviews
- Develop tools, templates, dashboards, and workflows for compensation decisions
- Use AI to automate compensation analysis and decision-support work
- Evaluate compensation and equity philosophy against market data, hiring needs, retention risk, budget constraints, and internal equity
Benefits
- Flexible PTO
- Centralized home-office equipment ordering
- Health and wellness stipend
- Budget for intra-office travel
- Weekly coffee stipend
- Medical, dental, and vision insurance
- One Medical annual membership
- 401(k) with employer match
- Fertility HRA
- Parental leave
- Pet insurance
- In-office meals, snacks, and drinks
- Relocation support to New York City or San Francisco
- Equity