Senior Compensation Partner

About Mixpanel

Mixpanel is an event analytics platform for builders who need answers from their data at their fingertips—no SQL required. When everyone in the organization can see and learn from the impact of their work on product, marketing, and company revenue metrics, they are poised to make better decisions.

Over 9,000 paid customers, including companies like Netflix, Pinterest, Sweetgreen, and Samsara, use Mixpanel to understand their customers and measure progress. Our commitment is to provide the most comprehensive and reliable analytics platform accessible and trusted by all.

About the People and Culture Team

The Mixpanel People and Culture team is the heart and soul of Mixpanel. We lead with care and empathy and deliver a high-touch employee experience to make Mixpanel a best-in-class, inclusive, and supportive place to work and an equitable environment for all employees to grow and advance. We are a data-driven organization with a deep regard for robust analysis in our DNA, which helps us understand trends and areas of improvement and focus. The People function acts as a critical advisor in driving a best-in-class employee experience, acting as strategic advisors to the executive team and senior leadership, and providing superior internal support while driving HR operational excellence.

About the Role

This is a hybrid role based out in San Francisco Bay Area. As a Senior Compensation Partner, you will play a critical role in shaping Mixpanel’s compensation strategy and workforce analytics. You will report to the Manager of Total Rewards and People Operations and provide strategic and tactical analysis that helps us make critical decisions on compensation, retention, and other employee-related initiatives.

In this role, you will own the analysis, delivery, tracking, and recommendations that impact workforce metrics and compensation strategy. You are detail-oriented, data-driven, and passionate about using data to tell a compelling story—helping the People team make informed, equitable, and impactful decisions. You will work closely with the VP of People and other team members to build and maintain competitive compensation structures, enhance HR analytics, and improve efficiencies across the People function.

Responsibilities

• Drive and own projects that will improve the operational effectiveness of our team and assist in our overall compensation strategy
• Own and scale HR metrics reporting including headcount, attrition, diversity data and more!
• Work as an advisor to the People team by providing data-driven analysis and trends to support decision-making and making recommendations based on trends in the market
• Design and update People dashboards for the team and other business units
• Help build and maintain our Global compensation strategy and program
• Review compensation strategy and benchmark data semi-annually to ensure market competitiveness
• Contribute company data to participate in compensation benchmarking tools and workflows
• Analyze and map job positions to appropriate benchmark data
• Build and conduct compensation training for the organization
• Regularly audit data to ensure accuracy
• Participate in other ad hoc projects with the broader team
• Leverage and evaluate tools to help automate and drive insights and visibility

We're Looking For Someone Who Has

• 5+ years of experience with a focus on compensation or HR analytics
• Strong experience with compensation analysis, pay structures, and benchmarking methodologies
• Advanced proficiency in Excel or Google Sheets
• Experience with various compensation tools & HR systems
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with an eye for detail
• A proactive and collaborative mindset with the ability to work cross-functionally
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written

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Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Mental Wellness Benefit
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Volunteer Time Off
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drive powerful outcomes.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M raised from prominent investors: like Andreessen- Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.