Competitive Compensation Jobs

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Competitive Compensation roles are the engine behind today’s high‑pay tech ecosystem. With 21,705 openings, companies are actively hiring analysts, strategists, and leaders who can translate market data into actionable pay structures that win talent and drive performance.

Typical titles include Compensation Analyst, Compensation Manager, Total Rewards Lead, Equity Compensation Analyst, and Salary Benchmarking Specialist. Responsibilities span gathering benchmark data from sources like Salary.com, PayScale, and CompAnalyst, building multi‑tier pay grids, designing incentive programs, and advising executives on equity allocations.

Salary transparency is essential for Competitive Compensation professionals because it allows them to validate market benchmarks, eliminate hidden biases, and present clear, data‑driven proposals to leadership. Transparent pay data also accelerates negotiations and builds trust with hiring teams.

Senior Observability Architect

Company: Grafana Labs

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Grafana Labs seeks an Observability Architect to lead technical partnerships, ensuring deep customer integration and driving product innovation through strategic leadership and technical expertise. The role emphasizes long-term customer success, observability solution design, and influencing product roadmaps while offering opportunities for technical growth and impactful contributions to the industry.

Sr. Staff Software Engineer - Pay Group Engineering

Company: Gusto, Inc.

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Gusto is hiring experienced engineers to join their teams working on core platform capabilities, improving existing systems for extensibility and scalability, and building the future of Gusto's Payroll system. The role involves guiding projects end-to-end, influencing feature specs, executing on projects, and maintaining code that powers core experiences. The Payroll team is the beating heart of Gusto's business, ensuring employees are paid accurately and on time while maintaining compliance with complex regulations.

Senior Business Data Analyst - Business Analytics

Company: Grow Therapy

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The Senior Business Data Analyst role at Grow Therapy involves partnering with business leaders to enable data-driven decision making. The role includes defining KPIs, uncovering insights, developing dashboards, and translating data into business value. Success is measured by the impact of insights on decisions, clarity of metrics, and improvements in business outcomes.

Senior Business Intelligence Engineer

Company: Dropbox

Location: Remote

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The role is for a Business Intelligence Engineer to partner with teams to grow revenue, optimize product, and launch initiatives. The ideal candidate will have experience in data modeling, BI tools, and analytics, with a focus on creating accessible data models and driving business impact.

D2C Growth Marketing Manager - Scout Acquisition

Company: Dscout

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Dscout is a flexible experience research platform that helps product teams connect with users. They are looking for a growth-focused marketer to help grow their Scout panel, an amazing community that powers research on their platform. The role involves attracting new Scouts, supporting research recruiting needs, optimizing growth and analytics, improving onboarding and engagement, and owning tools and tech.

District Success Manager - Khan Kids

Company: Khan Academy

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Khan Academy is a nonprofit organization with a mission to provide free, world-class education to anyone, anywhere. They offer high-quality learning content and practice for PreK-12th grade and early college core academic subjects, focusing on math and science. The company values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, and is committed to improving learning outcomes for students worldwide, especially those in historically under-resourced communities. They are looking for a District Success Manager to support school and district partners in implementing Khan Academy Kids successfully.

Director - Revenue Operations

Company: Grow Therapy

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Grow Therapy is seeking a Director of Revenue Operations to lead and scale revenue systems strategy across the organization. The role involves designing a scalable RevOps framework, building and leading a team, optimizing the GTM tech stack, driving revenue intelligence, and enhancing GTM efficiency. The ideal candidate has 7+ years of experience in RevOps or GTM strategy roles, with 5+ years of people leadership experience, and a strong background in HubSpot, sales methodologies, forecasting, and data analytics.

Staff Software Engineer, Workflows - Distributed Systems

Company: Webflow

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

Webflow is building an AI-native Digital Experience Platform as a remote-first company. They value trust, transparency, creativity, and diversity. The Workflows team is looking for a backend-leaning Staff Fullstack Engineer to lead and collaborate on implementing multiplayer branching experience, site workflows, and next-generation publishing pipelines. The role offers competitive compensation and benefits, and Webflow is committed to building an inclusive environment.

Staff Backend Product Software Engineer - Team Formation

Company: Dropbox

Location: Canada

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The role is a Staff Engineer position at Dropbox, focusing on optimizing activation and engagement flows for team users. The responsibilities include leading a team of engineers, contributing hands-on coding, shaping technical direction, driving cross-organizational impact, and fostering a culture of innovation. The requirements include a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, at least 12 years of experience as a software engineer, and experience working on a consumer-facing product.

Staff Backend Product Software Engineer - Team Formation

Company: Dropbox

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The role is a Staff Engineer position at Dropbox, focusing on optimizing activation and engagement flows for team users. The engineer will lead a team, contribute to coding, shape technical direction, and drive cross-organizational impact. The position requires a BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science or related field, and at least 12 years of experience in a consumer-facing team.

Head of Presales Engineering

Company: Lumos

Location: USA

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The role of Head of Pre Sales Engineering at Lumos involves leading and scaling the presales team, hiring and mentoring SEs, building the SE operating system, owning demo and POV strategy, partnering with sales leaders, building field assets, creating feedback loops, collaborating with RevOps, and modeling an inclusive culture. The ideal candidate should have 10+ years of B2B SaaS pre sales experience, domain fluency, proven lift in technical win rate, mastery of MEDDPICC, operational rigor, excellent communication skills, and the ability to travel as needed.

Director - Ecosystems Sales

Company: GitLab

Location: Europe

Posted Dec 06, 2025

The role of Director Ecosystem Sales EMEA involves leading a team to grow GitLab's business with partners across EMEA. The responsibilities include building relationships with partners, developing regional strategies, collaborating with teams, driving partner-influenced pipeline, and monitoring market trends. The ideal candidate should have experience in strategic partnerships, driving partner-influenced revenue, and leading distributed teams.

Frequently Asked Questions

What are the typical salary ranges for Competitive Compensation roles at different seniority levels?
Entry‑level Compensation Analyst salaries typically range from $70,000 to $90,000 annually. Mid‑level analysts earn $90,000 to $120,000. Senior analysts and Compensation Managers command $120,000 to $160,000. Directors of Compensation usually receive $180,000 to $250,000, with total compensation often including bonuses and equity that can push the package above $300,000 in high‑growth tech companies.
What skills and certifications are essential for a career in Competitive Compensation?
Key skills include advanced data analysis (SQL, Python, Excel, Power BI), proficiency with compensation platforms such as CompAnalyst and Salary.com, and strong business acumen to translate market data into strategy. Certifications such as Certified Compensation Professional (CCP), Compensation and Salary Management (CSM) from WorldatWork, and HRIS credentials (e.g., SAP SuccessFactors, Workday) are highly valued. Knowledge of legal compliance (EEOC, FLSA) and diversity‑equity‑inclusion metrics also strengthens candidacy.
Can Competitive Compensation positions be performed remotely?
Yes. Most Compensation Analyst, Manager, and Director roles in tech companies support fully remote or hybrid arrangements. Companies like Atlassian, GitHub, and Slack offer dedicated compensation teams that collaborate via cloud‑based tools, enabling professionals to work from any location while maintaining real‑time access to market data and executive dashboards.
What does a typical career progression look like in Competitive Compensation?
A common trajectory starts as a Compensation Analyst, advances to Senior Analyst or Compensation Specialist, then to Manager or Lead of Total Rewards. From there, professionals can move into Director of Compensation or VP of Compensation, often coupled with broader HR strategy responsibilities such as global pay strategy or talent analytics.
What are the current industry trends shaping Competitive Compensation?
Key trends include AI‑driven pay analytics that generate predictive compensation models, real‑time market data integration, ESG‑linked pay metrics, and increased focus on pay equity audits. Companies are also expanding equity compensation packages for remote talent and leveraging gig‑economy data to benchmark freelance rates. Staying current on these trends is critical for compensation leaders who want to align pay with business strategy and attract diverse talent.

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