Compensation Engineer (AI)

TL;DR

Compensation Engineer (AI): Driving high-stakes compensation decisions and product adoption for enterprise customers with an accent on compensation intelligence and AI-powered solutions. Focus on embedding market data into live workflows, shaping product strategy through customer feedback, and solving complex job architecture challenges.

Location: Hybrid (Orange County HQ, Denver, or San Francisco)

Salary: $135K – $175K + Equity

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Venture-backed AI startup revolutionizing compensation data for leading enterprise teams.

What you will do

• Act as a strategic compensation advisor to Heads of Compensation and senior People leaders on complex initiatives.
• Guide customers in embedding market data and AI agents into live compensation workflows and strategic projects.
• Drive adoption, trust, and confidence in hirify.global’s data, methodologies, and AI-driven logic.
• Own outcomes across a customer portfolio, including adoption milestones and workflow transformation.
• Translate real-world customer patterns and friction points into actionable product feedback for engineering teams.
• Partner with product teams to ensure solutions reflect practical compensation decision-making.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in compensation consulting, program management, or as a compensation lead.
• Strong command of job architecture, leveling, market benchmarking, and pay philosophies.
• Ability to interpret complex market and internal data and evaluate strategic trade-offs.
• Proven solution-oriented mindset for turning ambiguous challenges into actionable outcomes.
• Experience engaging stakeholders from compensation teams through executive leadership.
• Must be based in or able to work from Orange County, Denver, or San Francisco.

Nice to have

• Experience working with enterprise or high-growth technology hirify.globalnies.
• Familiarity with AI-enabled tools and curiosity about modernizing compensation workflows.
• Experience influencing product strategy and roadmaps through customer insights.
• Background managing a portfolio of customers with a focus on scalability and repeatability.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a collaborative, curious, and driven environment valuing transparency and ownership.
• Opportunity to work with world-leading hirify.globalnies like NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Stripe.
• Venture-backed startup culture with an emphasis on continuous learning.
• Equity offers provided as part of the compensation package.
• Hybrid work model prioritizing in-person collaboration where possible.