Compensation Manager

Location: Los Angeles, CA, United States. On-site.

Salary: $200,000–$270,000 per year. Equity offered.

Company

hirify.global builds autonomous factories combining AI, advanced software, robotics, and full-stack manufacturing for aerospace and defense companies.

What you will do

• Own the compensation strategy and philosophy for hourly production, salaried, GTM, and executive roles.
• Build and maintain job architecture, career frameworks, leveling, job families, and skills-based pay structures.
• Conduct market benchmarking and modeling across aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing, AI, and technology talent markets.
• Own compensation bands, annual and off-cycle compensation planning, merit, promotion, and equity refresh cycles.
• Partner with Recruiting on offer decisions and advise on sales, GTM, executive compensation, and equity frameworks.
• Build dashboards and reporting for pay equity, offer competitiveness, and retention risk, and explain compensation decisions to leaders.

Requirements

• 6+ years of compensation experience with ownership of program design and compensation cycles.
• Strong knowledge of job matching, market pricing, leveling, job architecture, and cyclical compensation programs.
• Experience building compensation programs for hourly and salaried populations, including shift differentials, overtime, and multi-state pay compliance.
• Experience creating defensible benchmarking approaches and peer groups.
• Deep Excel or Google Sheets fluency, including modeling, lookups, and INDEX/MATCH.
• Fluency in sales compensation, including OTE design and bonus structuring.
• Experience designing and managing equity programs across private and public company frameworks.
• Excellent communication skills and the ability to explain complex compensation models to senior leaders and hiring managers.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and experience across both manufacturing and technology companies.
• U.S. citizenship or nationality, lawful permanent resident status, protected individual status, or eligibility to obtain required U.S. Department of State authorizations under ITAR regulations.

Nice to have

• Experience building skills-based pay structures, career frameworks, or job architecture from the ground up.
• Creative, outside-the-box compensation strategy experience in markets without clear peer groups or established playbooks.
• Executive compensation experience, especially in a pre-IPO or rapidly scaling environment.
• Background in aerospace, defense, or other regulated industries.
• Experience with HRIS and compensation planning tools such as Rippling or Pave.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance.
• 401(k).
• Flexible vacation policy.
• Equity.
• Relocation support may be provided in certain situations based on business needs.