Compensation Consultant

About this role

ABOUT PAYSCALE

Payscale is the pioneer of compensation intelligence, helping organizations make smarter pay decisions that drive business performance. For more than 20 years, Payscale has combined trusted market data with AI-powered technology to deliver actionable insights that turn pay from a cost into a catalyst for growth. The Payscale Intelligence Cloud portfolio of solutions — Ascent, JobNav, and Paycycle — empower top companies and businesses like Cintas, Leidos, Chipotle, Ohio State University, and TJX Companies.

Create confidence in your compensation. Payscale.

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WHAT WE DO:

Payscale's Compensation Services team partners strategically with clients across their entire compensation journey. We help organizations build foundational compensation strategies, design competitive pay structures, establish job families and level frameworks, and enhance pay transparency and communications - serving as trusted advisors who guide clients through complex compensation decisions across diverse industries, geographies, and organizational complexities. Our role is to combine deep compensation expertise with data-driven insights from Payscale's platform to deliver tangible, measurable outcomes that help clients build defensible, strategic compensation programs.

WHAT YOU'LL DO:

- Manage Complex Client Engagements: Serve as project manager on high-value, complex compensation projects that often require cross-functional collaboration with benchmarking, revenue, and other internal teams to deliver comprehensive solutions

- Execute Core Compensation Initiatives: Support and manage a range of project types within our service offerings - from stakeholder alignment and compensation strategy development through job pricing, structure modeling, job family framework development, policy documentation, and compensation communications training

- Provide Compensation Consultation: Deliver deep compensation expertise across benchmarking and market pricing, salary structure design, and job architecture - interpreting complex market data and tailoring recommendations to unique client circumstances and business objectives

- Facilitate Client Conversations: Partner with client stakeholders, including senior leaders, to discuss compensation strategy, findings, and recommendations, building credibility as a trusted compensation partner

- Support Team Collaboration and Learning: Share knowledge and best practices with teammates and support onboarding, shadowing, and peer review as needed

- Collaborate Cross-functionally: Partner across teams to deliver comprehensive client solutions, troubleshoot complex issues, regularly share best practices, and support revenue teams on prospect and renewal calls

- Contribute to Process Improvement: Identify gaps in team competencies, suggest professional development opportunities, and participate in departmental process improvement that enhance service delivery

WE'D LOVE TO TALK WITH YOU IF YOU HAVE:

- 7+ years of hands-on compensation experience, including demonstrated expertise in:

- Benchmarking and market pricing across multiple industries, geographies, and data sources

- Salary structure design, development, and analysis

- Job architecture, job family frameworks, and job leveling

- Compensation strategy development and implementation

- Strong project management skills with the ability to manage moderately complex to highly complex client engagements independently

- Excellent communication and presentation skills, particularly the ability to communicate compensation concepts clearly to a range of client stakeholders, including senior leaders

- Advanced Excel and data analysis capabilities

- Client-facing experience delivering consulting services or professional services to external clients

- Willingness to share compensation expertise and support the development of teammates

Nice to Have:

- Experience with global job architecture and international compensation structures

- Knowledge of variable pay structure design (incentive compensation, bonus structures)

- Experience with pay equity analysis and pay transparency initiatives

- Certification in compensation, such as CCP

Why You'd Thrive on This Team:

You're a continuous learner and curious problem-solver who thrives in ambiguity and brings creative solutions to complex compensation challenges. You're client-centric and outcomes-focused. You understand that compensation strategy isn't a one-size-fits-all. You genuinely enjoy learning about different organizations, industries, and business models. 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. Perhaps most importantly, you're energized by the opportunity to be a strategic partner in clients' compensation journeys. You know that the work you do directly impacts how organizations attract, retain, and fairly compensate their talent.

Location

Payscale has an employee centric remote-first model that provides you the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you, while also finding time to collaborate in person for the moments that matter.

In our remote-first model, employees can work from the location that works best for them. We do not have centralized corporate offices. Employees can choose to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or any combination of the two that best suits their unique needs.

If you work from home, we recommend ensuring that you can meet the following technology, equipment and workspace requirements:

- High-Speed Internet - A stable broadband or fiber connection (satellite is highly discouraged) with a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in a dedicated workspace that has a reliable Wi-Fi signal.

- Device for Multifactor…