Compensation Consultant

Payscale's Compensation Services team as a Compensation Consultant. In this role, you will partner strategically with clients throughout their entire compensation journey, providing deep compensation expertise and data-driven insights. You will manage complex client engagements, execute core compensation initiatives, facilitate client conversations, support team collaboration and learning, collaborate cross-functionally, and contribute to process improvement.

About Payscale

• Perhaps most importantly, you're energized by the opportunity to be a strategic partner in clients' compensation journeys
• You genuinely enjoy learning about different organizations, industries, and business models
• You're a continuous learner and curious problem-solver who thrives in ambiguity and brings creative solutions to complex compensation challenges

Responsibilities

• Benefits include flexible paid time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage, paid parental leave, and a company-matched 401k.
• Manage complex client engagements and serve as project manager on high-value compensation projects.
• Support and manage a range of project types within service offerings, from compensation strategy development to job pricing.
• Deliver deep compensation expertise across benchmarking and market pricing, salary structure design, and job architecture.
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage moderately complex to highly complex client engagements independently
• Salary structure design, development, and analysis
• Job architecture, job family frameworks, and job leveling
• Benchmarking and market pricing across multiple industries, geographies, and data sources
• Compensation strategy development and implementation
• Client-facing experience delivering consulting services or professional services to external clients

Requirements

• Excellent communication and presentation skills, particularly the ability to communicate compensation concepts clearly to a range of client stakeholders, including senior leaders
• 7+ years of hands-on compensation experience, including demonstrated expertise in:
• Advanced Excel and data analysis capabilities
• Willingness to share compensation expertise and support the development of teammates
• You craft tailored recommendations based on this knowledge
• You have strong executive presence and are comfortable navigating both detailed analytical work and high-level strategic conversations with C-suite audiences
• You're client-centric and outcomes-focused

Pay

• You know that the work you do directly impacts how organizations attract, retain, and fairly compensate their talent
• Experience with pay equity analysis and pay transparency initiatives
• Knowledge of variable pay structure design (incentive compensation, bonus structures)
• Certification in compensation, such as CCP
• USD 115,760 - 173,640

You understand that compensation strategy isn't a one-size-fits-all

• We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you
• Experience with global job architecture and international compensation structures