Head of Compensation

Location: United States; the salary range applies across various U.S. geographic markets and all U.S. locations. The role may require up to 10% travel for onboarding, client or partner work, team meetings, and industry events.

Company

hirify.global develops technology that makes first-party data accessible and actionable to support personalized experiences in ecommerce and beyond.

What you will do

• Define and build hirify.global's compensation philosophy, leveling framework, market-pricing approach, and scalable compensation architecture.
• Own multi-year equity modeling, including refresh grants, dilution, and burn-rate planning in partnership with Finance and executive leadership.
• Advise business leaders on complex compensation decisions, including competing offers, leveling disputes, promotions, retention cases, and reorganizations.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition on offer strategy, pay transparency, job-posting compensation clarity, and competitive hiring.
• Lead annual and off-cycle compensation strategy, executive and board compensation support, pay equity remediation, international compensation, and M&A compensation integration.
• Define requirements for market-data ingestion, pay equity analysis, self-service tools, and AI-enabled automation.

Requirements

• 10+ years of compensation experience, including ownership of compensation strategy and structure at a growth-stage company.
• Experience rebuilding or significantly overhauling a compensation function or framework, including leveling, market pricing, or compensation philosophy.
• Hands-on experience with market-pricing platforms, pay equity analytics, compensation management systems, and modern compensation data sources.
• Experience designing defensible, explainable, and equitable compensation structures.
• Strong ability to navigate compensation disputes, promotion denials, retention counters, and other difficult compensation conversations.
• Experience partnering with Talent Acquisition, Finance, business leaders, Legal, and People Operations, plus knowledge of pay-transparency practices and related regulations.

Nice to have

• Experience applying AI tools to automate compensation analysis or reporting at scale.
• Experience in rapid-growth or strategically shifting companies.
• Background combining in-house compensation leadership with consulting or advisory work.
• Ability to ship an initial version and iterate rather than wait for a perfect model.

Culture & Benefits

• Build-focused mandate centered on making compensation a strategic business lever.
• Leadership and People teams that support investment in compensation infrastructure.
• Opportunity to act as a strategic thought partner to business leaders and own compensation end to end.
• Total compensation may include annual cash bonus, equity, sign-on payments, and health, welfare, and wellbeing benefits, subject to eligibility.
• hirify.global promotes an ambitious, collaborative, inclusive, and equal-opportunity workplace.