Compensation & Equity Lead (Hybrid) — Stock Options

Guild Education; Denver (CO); Hybrid; USD 118,300 - 180,400; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health care options

401k plan

Paid vacation

Sick leave

Parental leave

Disability & life insurance

Wellness resources

Tuition assistance

Job summary

Guild Education in Denver is seeking a Compensation Manager to lead annual compensation cycles, analyze salary ranges, and design equity programs in partnership with the Total Rewards and People Operations teams.

You will build and benchmark compensation structures, drive policy development, ensure regulatory compliance, and collaborate with HR and management to align rewards with business strategy across the company.

Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of compensation principles, including salary structures, equity compensation, and incentive program design.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret complex compensation data and translate it into actionable recommendations.
• Solid understanding of compensation-related compliance, regulations, and reporting requirements.
• Experience building and implementing compensation and equity programs and policies, including incentive plan design.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively across HR teams and management.

Responsibilities

• Lead the annual compensation cycles, including planning tool setup, data analysis, reporting, troubleshooting, and communications.
• Perform complex analysis of salary ranges to ensure they remain competitive, recommending consolidation and updates as needed.
• Lead the design of equity-related compensation and stock option administration, including monthly equity grant analysis.
• Manage job evaluation, job family creation, and salary survey benchmarking, including participating in surveys and analyzing results and trends.
• Serve as a key collaborator on sales incentive plan design and administration.
• Partner with People Business Partners and the Talent team on compensation-related processes, approvals, questions, and company-wide education.
• Implement and maintain compensation technology, and partner with the People Operations team to keep systems and HRIS data accurate.
• Identify opportunities for process improvement and represent the Compensation team on cross-functional People and company project teams.

Skills

Compensation principles

Analytical skills

Compliance knowledge

Communication

Education

HR degree

Finance degree

Analytics degree

Tools

Excel

Google Sheets

Job description

Guild Education in Denver is seeking a Compensation Manager to lead annual compensation cycles, analyze salary ranges, and design equity programs in partnership with the Total Rewards and People Operations teams.

You will build and benchmark compensation structures, drive policy development, ensure regulatory compliance, and collaborate with HR and management to align rewards with business strategy across the company.