Senior Compensation and Benefits Manager

Qonto; Paris; On-site; EUR 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Scope ownership

Direct impact

Growth opportunities

Judgment-first culture

Job summary

Qonto is seeking a Senior Compensation & Benefits Partner to lead complex, cross-country compensation strategies and governance. You will shape frameworks that scale with the company’s growth and partner with Talent Acquisition and business leaders on offers, promotions, retention, and off-cycle reviews.

You will combine market data, internal equity and business context to deliver defensible recommendations, run salary cycles, ensure policy updates, and monitor compliance, while leveraging AI

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience running full compensation review cycles.
• Experience renewing benefits across European countries.
• Ability to diagnose problems before relying on market data.
• Ability to push back constructively with senior stakeholders.
• Proficiency with AI tools for data analysis and modelling.

Responsibilities

• Advise on high-stakes comp decisions with TA, People Partners and managers.
• Turn data into clear, defendable compensation recommendations.
• Own salary review cycles, policy updates and compliance monitoring end-to-end.
• Design scalable frameworks: global grading, leveling, salary ranges and transparency.
• Strengthen governance with cross-functional teams (People, Finance, Legal, HRIS).

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Multi-country reach

Business judgment

Stakeholder management

AI fluency

Job description

Our mission and customers: We are creating the freedom for SMEs to succeed by delivering Europe's leading finance workspace with banking at its core, augmented by financial tools. We are proud to be rated 4.8 on Trustpilot, based on 55,000+ reviews. Our culture puts customer satisfaction at the core of what we do, as proven by our Net Promoter Score of 75 (more about our culture here).

Our journey: Founded in 2017 by Alexandre and Steve, Qonto has grown to 1,700 Qontoers serving over 750,000 customers across 8 European countries. We have been profitable since 2023, and we are just getting started.

Our beliefs: We hire for skills and potential. With 80+ nationalities, 45% women, of which 56% of women in our leadership team, diversity isn't a program; It's who we are. We've built a discrimination-free hiring process because the best teams are built on merit.

AI at Qonto: AI is deeply embedded in how we work (here) - Every Qontoer gets unlimited access to the best AI tools. We want people who experiment without waiting for permission, push AI beyond the obvious, know when to trust it, and when to question it.

Join us as a Senior Compensation & Benefits Partner

to make Qonto's compensation decisions fair, competitive, and built to scale. You'll be the trusted voice on sensitive comp calls and the architect of the frameworks that support Qonto's long-term growth, working closely with Jean-Raphaël Demol, Comp & Ben Director, your future manager.

What you'll do

• Advise on high-stakes comp calls: Partner with Talent Acquisition, People Partners and managers on benchmarks and guidance for hiring offers, promotions, retention cases and off-cycle reviews.
• Turn data into decisions: Combine market data, internal equity and business context into clear, defensible recommendations.
• Own the cycles that matter: Run salary review cycles, policy updates and compliance monitoring end-to-end.
• Build frameworks that scale: Design global grading, leveling, salary ranges and pay transparency for Qonto's next phase of growth.
• Strengthen governance: Sharpen decision rules, data quality and self-service resources with People, Finance, Legal and HRIS.

What we're looking for

• End-to-end ownership: You've personally run several full compensation review cycles, not just supported them.
• Multi-country reach: You've managed benefits renewal across European countries.
• Business judgment over benchmarks: You diagnose the real problem before reaching for market data, and you recommend rather than just report.
• Stakeholder backbone: You challenge senior stakeholders constructively and build alignment, even when the answer is no.
• AI-fluent: You use AI tools to move faster on data analysis and modeling, not just to keep up.

What we can offer you

• Scope, not just data: You'll own complex, highly visible topics, not run benchmarks for someone else's decisions.
• Direct impact: Your calls shape hiring, retention and internal equity across the company.
• Room to grow: More strategic exposure as you build track record.
• Judgment-first culture: An experienced, international, AI-first team where how you think matters as much as what you know.

Your future manager

You'll report to Jean-Raphaël Demol, who has spent over 20 years building his Compensation & Benefits expertise, with roles at Roche Pharmaceuticals, Amazon and Criteo, where he spent 6 years as Director of Compensation and Benefits - overseeing benefits across 19 countries, equity strategy and international mobility. He then led Total Rewards at Onfido and Dataiku, before joining Pigment in September 2024 as Total Rewards & People Operations, before joining Qonto early 2026.