Sr. Compensation Analyst

PowerToFly; Bengaluru; On-site; INR 2,800,000 - 4,600,000; Full time

Job summary

Zillow Group is seeking a Senior Specialist, Talent Rewards, Compensation to design, analyze, and administer complex pay programs that align pay practices with Zillow’s business strategy. The role partners with HR and business stakeholders to provide data-driven insights and day-to-day compensation support, ensuring our programs are competitive, equitable, and compliant.

This role focuses on market pricing, salary survey submissions, reporting, and global compensation operations, including

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in compensation, rewards, or HR analytics roles supporting program design and administration.
• Experience conducting market benchmarking and salary survey submissions.
• Experience analyzing large data sets to generate compensation insights for HR and business.
• Experience with HRIS/HCM systems (e.g., Workday) to support compensation processes.

Responsibilities

• Conduct job evaluations and market pricing using survey data to benchmark roles.
• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and compensation tools for decision-making.
• Support annual compensation planning, data prep, system updates, and reporting.
• Manage global compensation programs and incentive program market evaluation.

Skills

Salary benchmarking

Data analysis

HR analytics

Excel

Reporting

Tools

Workday

Dashboard tools

AI-enabled tools

Job description

About the team

The Senior Specialist, Talent Rewards, Compensation designs, analyzes, and administers complex compensation programs that align pay practices with Zillow’s business strategy. The role partners with HR and business stakeholders to provide data-driven insights and day-to-day compensation support, ensuring our programs are competitive, equitable, and compliant.

Zillow Group is a strategic, mission-driven organization focused on delivering exceptional experiences and measurable outcomes. Our work spans cross-functional partnership, scalable programs and operational excellence in support of Zillow’s mission. We bring deep experience working across diverse teams in a dynamic, high-growth environment, balancing strategic thinking with hands-on execution to drive meaningful business impact. We are seeking an experienced professional to support our workforce expansion in India.

About the role

• Conduct job evaluations and market pricing using compensation survey data to ensure roles are benchmarked accurately and consistently.Participate in salary survey submissions and maintain survey vendor relationships.

• Develop and maintain reports, dashboards, and compensation tools to support HR and business decision-making. Analyze internal pay equity and external competitiveness, identifying trends and flagging issues for review.

• Support annual compensation planning processes, including data preparation, system updates, and reporting.Maintain and update compensation data in HRIS systems, ensuring accuracy and data integrity.

• Support the management of global compensation programs, including variable incentive program market evaluation and administrative operations locally.

• Manage and optimize AI-enabled compensation tools and platforms, including evaluating vendor solutions, designing workflows, configuring models or prompts for compensation use cases, and driving adoption across HR and business stakeholder groups.

• May manage compensation programs, such as recognition and morale programs, including program enhancement, administration, budget oversight, and effectiveness analysis, ensuring alignment with total rewards philosophy and a positive employee experience.

• Ensure data quality, compliance, and alignment with compensation policies by auditing compensation data, enforcing data governance standards, and identifying process improvements across systems such as Workday and external survey platforms.

This role has been categorized as an Office position. "Office" employees regularly work at the Zillow India office for approximately 80 to 100 percent of their time each month. Employees must live within a reasonable commuting distance of the office. Zillow has not defined a reasonable distance, and expects employees will use judgment in determining this for themselves and understand the implications re: time commitment and cost of daily commute. In addition to a competitive base pay, employees in this role are eligible for incentive compensation subject to applicable laws and relevant Zillow policies. Actual amounts will vary depending on experience, performance and location.

Who you are

• 8+ years of experience in compensation, rewards, or closely related HR analytics roles supporting program design and administration.

• Experience conducting market benchmarking, participating in or leading salary survey submissions, and applying survey data to develop or maintain salary structures and incentive programs.

• Experience analyzing large data sets to generate compensation insights and recommendations, using spreadsheets and reporting tools to inform decisions for HR and business stakeholders.

• Experience working with HRIS or HCM systems (such as Workday) to support compensation processes and maintain data integrity.

• Experience working with or implementing AI-enabled HR or compensation tools, including vendor evaluation, workflow design, or model/prompt configuration for compensation use cases.

• Experience administering recognition, morale or other ancillary programs, including program design, budget management, and reporting.

• Comfort experimenting with and adopting emerging technologies to improve compensation processes, data analysis, or stakeholder communication.

Get to know us

At Zillow, we’re reimagining how people move—through the real estate market and through their careers.

As the most-visited real estate platform in the U.S., Zillow helps millions of customers navigate buying, selling, financing, and renting with greater ease and confidence. Our teams in India play a critical role in building and scaling the technology, products, and operations that power this experience.

Whether you’re working in tech, operations, or shared services, you’ll collaborate with global partners to solve meaningful problems and help more people make home a reality.

Zillow was named one of FORTUNE 100 Best Companies to Work For® in 2025, and included on the PEOPLE Companies That Care® 2025 list, reflecting our commitment to creating an innovative, inclusive, and engaging culture where employees are empowered to grow.

No matter where you sit in the organization, your work will help drive innovation, support our customers, and move the industry—and your career—forward, together.

Zillow Group is an equal opportunity employer committed to fostering an inclusive, innovative environment with the best employees. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, maternity status, HIV status, or veteran status. Reasonable accommodations will be provided to candidates with disabilities, in accordance with applicable policies.