Principal Compensation Partner (Aerospace)

Location: Long Beach, California, United States; based at hirify.global's global headquarters. This position is for candidates seeking to work in US offices only.

Base salary: $142,000–$160,000 USD annually, California only.

Company

hirify.global is an end-to-end space company building rockets, spacecraft, and critical subsystems for missions supporting connectivity, protection, and exploration.

What you will do

• Partner with People & Culture and business leaders on hiring, promotions, organizational initiatives, and annual compensation programs.
• Manage global compensation architecture, including job creation, salary structures, market analysis, surveys, and compensation decisions.
• Conduct quantitative analysis, data modeling, data mining, and presentations to support strategic people decisions.
• Develop compensation communications and training for recruiters, HR professionals, and managers.
• Support total rewards strategy, compliance, systems improvements, and compensation requests for new hires and internal transfers.
• Manage compensation workstreams for mergers and acquisitions, including job mapping, analytical support, and project management.

Requirements

• 12+ years of professional experience in compensation analysis and administration, plus a bachelor's degree or equivalent years of work experience.
• Experience leading internal and external market analysis.
• Advanced Excel proficiency, including building models and analyses.
• For US office employment, candidates must be US citizens, lawful US permanent residents, lawfully admitted refugees or asylees, or eligible to obtain applicable US export-control authorizations.

Nice to have

• Master's degree.
• Experience managing compensation decisions in corporate functions or management consulting, including support for Finance, IT, People & Culture, and mergers and acquisitions.
• Strong analytical, project management, quantitative, consultative, communication, and presentation skills.
• Knowledge of laws and regulations covering base compensation, incentive programs, company policies, and operations.
• Understanding of compensation best practices and experience developing stock-based compensation packages.
• Experience using AI tools such as Compa, Pave, or Open Code, and experience with Radford compensation surveys.
• Certified Compensation Professional certification.
• Ability to incorporate constructive feedback, solve complex problems, and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Fast-paced, mission-driven environment focused on innovation, teamwork, accountability, and tight deadlines.
• Company stock, employee stock purchase program with a 15% discount, and 401(k) plan with company match.
• Medical, dental, vision, HSA, flexible spending and dependent care accounts, disability and life insurance.
• Paid vacation, sick time, 11 paid holidays, and paid parental leave.
• Additional benefits include EV charging, fitness facilities or gym discounts, snacks and beverages, and employee discounts.
• The role may involve prolonged sitting, standing, walking, computer work, and occasional exposure to moderate noise, dust, and fumes in production areas.