Senior Compensation Manager

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

As a Senior Compensation Manager at Rippling, you will play a pivotal role in shaping our company's compensation strategy. You will drive core compensation programs, serve as a trusted advisor to business leaders, and lead compensation design and review projects.

Your expertise will be instrumental in developing a fully featured Compensation tool that empowers Finance, Recruiting, Hiring Managers, Employees, and Candidates. You will collaborate with engineers and product managers to define and deliver innovative compensation solutions that align with our business objectives.

What you will do

• Drive core compensation programs: market analysis, benchmarking, equity, training, and annual events, ensuring competitive positioning, especially in the evolving India market.
• Lead APAC compensation: consult and educate leadership, HR business partners and recruiters on our compensation philosophies programs to make decisions that align with our comp philosophy.
• Lead compensation design for R&D India business group including benchmarking, leveling and creative compensation programs, that help in attracting top talent.
• Program manage communication and change during annual compensation review cycles and other strategic projects.
• Collaborate with engineering and product to define short- and long-term tactics for Rippling Compensation app features, creating a comprehensive tool for all users.

What you will need

• At least 8 years of compensation-related work experience, preferably within the tech industry, with at least 3 years managing a Compensation Program or Department. Experience with Public company equity in the US (or Private company equity preparing for IPO) preferred.
• Substantial command of compensation fundamentals: job matching, market pricing, Leveling and Job Architecture, equity mechanics at private and public companies, cyclical programs, etc.
• Ability to manage change and ambiguity, and influence cross functional stakeholders effectively. Collaborate with diverse teams, communicate complex information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences, build strong relationships with stakeholders, and influence decision-making through data-driven insights and persuasive communication.
• Prior experience working with large amounts of data, utilizing strong analytical skills to interpret compensation trends and build intelligence through reporting, with high attention to data validity.
• Team development skills: ability to set a roadmap and goals for a team and every one of its members, delegate intelligently, offer advice, deliver frequent and transparent feedback, work with team members to grow in their careers, and ensure everyone delivers quality results.
• Excellent communication and presentations skills, with the ability to effectively translate complex compensation concepts/models into digestible plans to the executives.

Even if you don’t meet all of the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply. Skills can be used in lots of different ways and your life and professional experience may be relevant beyond what a list of requirements will capture.

Additional Information

Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics, Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accomodations@rippling.com

Rippling highly values having employees working in-office to foster a collaborative work environment and company culture. For office-based employees (employees who live within a defined radius of a Rippling office), Rippling considers working in the office, at least three days a week under current policy, to be an essential function of the employee's role.