Compensation Architect - Multi-State Pay & Equity

Limiting Factor Group; Menlo Park (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Long-term incentives

Medical, dental, vision coverage

401(k) plan

Paid vacation and holidays

Disability and life insurance

Job summary

Limiting Factor Group seeks its first compensation hire to design pay structures and policies for a multi-state workforce, reporting to the Head of People and Talent. You will establish bands, incentive plans, and equity guidelines, shaping every offer the company makes as it grows.

You will define philosophy, build job architecture, and advise recruiting on competitive offers while ensuring fair pay practices in CA and WA and across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of compensation experience, building or redesigning pay structures.
• Hands-on experience with job leveling, salary bands, market pricing and compensation survey data.
• Experience designing pay for both salaried and hourly or field employees across more than one state.
• Knowledge of California and Washington pay rules, including wage and hour, pay transparency and equal pay requirements.
• Experience running compensation review cycles and working with an HR information system.
• Strong analytical skills, including modeling the cost of pay changes.
• Sound judgment and discretion with confidential pay information.

Responsibilities

• Define our compensation philosophy: where we aim to pay against the market, and how base pay, bonus and equity fit together for each part of the workforce.
• Build our job architecture: job families, levels and the criteria for each, covering office, engineering and hourly site roles.
• Create salary bands and hourly wage scales for every level, with separate ranges where the California and Washington markets differ.
• Choose our compensation surveys and data sources, benchmark our roles against them, and adjust ranges as the market moves, including for hard-to-fill data center and skilled trades roles.
• Advise the Recruiting Lead and hiring managers on offers, so new hires are paid competitively and consistently with the people already here.
• Design bonus and incentive plans, and partner with the Equity Lead on equity guidelines and grants.
• Establish and run the performance and compensation review cycles, including merit budgets, promotion increases and guidance for managers.
• Review pay for equity across comparable roles and recommend adjustments.
• Keep pay practices compliant in both states, including exempt and non-exempt classification, wage and hour rules, and the pay ranges required in job postings.
• Partner with Finance on the headcount budget and model the cost of compensation changes.
• Give managers and employees clear guidance on how levels, ranges and raises are decided.

Skills

Compensation design

Job leveling

Market pricing

Data analysis

HRIS experience

Multi-state compliance

Tools

HRIS

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Limiting Factor Group seeks its first compensation hire to design pay structures and policies for a multi-state workforce, reporting to the Head of People and Talent. You will establish bands, incentive plans, and equity guidelines, shaping every offer the company makes as it grows.

You will define philosophy, build job architecture, and advise recruiting on competitive offers while ensuring fair pay practices in CA and WA and across the organization.