Compensation Lead

The Farmer's Dog; New York (NY); On-site; USD 135,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Dog-friendly office

Market-competitive compensation and equity packages

Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision

12 week paid parental leave

Competitive 401(k) plan with company match

Flexible PTO

Discounted fresh food for your pup

Job summary

The Farmer's Dog in New York, NY seeks an experienced Compensation Lead to manage compensation functions and initiatives. The ideal candidate will have over 8 years of experience, excel in analytical tasks, and lead end-to-end compensation processes. The role includes evaluating compensation strategies, building relationships across departments, and ensuring compliance and competitiveness. The company offers competitive compensation, comprehensive healthcare, and a dog-friendly office environment, making it a unique place to work.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive compensation experience.
• Experienced in managing compensation programs end-to-end.
• High analytical capability with strong data skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead ownership of compensation review cycles.
• Evaluate and refine compensation program design.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of complex compensation issues.
• Drive complex compensation projects from scoping through execution.

Skills

Compensation design expertise

Analytical skills

Excel proficiency

Stakeholder relationship building

Problem-solving

Tools

Workday

Pave

Job description

The Farmer’s Dog was born from a mission to change the landscape of pet health, providing dogs and their humans with honest, smart, and simple care. We’re starting by radically improving the $90 billion pet food industry, replacing bags of highly-processed pellets with a personalized subscription service that sends complete and balanced, freshly-made dog food directly to customers’ doors. Our ultimate goal is to create innovative, delightful and personalized experiences across all aspects of pet care, and we believe our direct-to-consumer business model, holistic approach to growth, and dynamic culture uniquely position us to shepherd this backwards industry into the future.

To date, The Farmer’s Dog has delivered over 1 billion meals nationwide and raised over $150M in funding to help us build a company as healthy as the dogs who are eating those meals. Join us as we continue to develop ways of bringing peace of mind to customers, health to their companions, and much-needed change to the way people feed and care for their pets.

What We Stand For and Where You’ll Come In

The Compensation Lead will play a critical role in shaping and owning The Farmer’s Dog’s compensation function as our business continues to scale. We’re looking for a seasoned compensation leader who brings wide-ranging expertise, will thrive in an autonomous environment, and act as a strategic compensation partner across total rewards. This person will serve as a key partner to business leaders and the Humans group, leading company-wide programs and bringing creative, principled solutions to complex compensation decisions.

How You'll Make An Impact

• Lead end-to-end ownership of compensation review cycles, including determining timeline, materials to support compensation such as training and benchmarks, and partnering with HR Business Partners and senior leaders to drive equitable, competitive, and consistent pay decisions.
• Seek better by continuously evaluating and refining compensation program design to develop scalable, data-informed approaches that evolve with our business.
• Own our comprehensive benchmarking strategy, including job architecture, FLSA classifications, leveling, and market pricing, applying in-depth evaluation of variable factors to ensure competitive positioning across all roles.
• Conduct in-depth analysis of complex compensation issues, evaluating multiple variable factors to develop insights and recommendations that directly inform total rewards strategy and business decision-making.
• Serve as a senior cross-functional partner across Total Rewards, Talent Acquisition, and Humans Business Partners, proactively sharing context across groups, identifying process improvements, and driving alignment on compensation philosophy and execution.
• Build trusted relationships with senior business leaders and key contacts across and beyond the People function, serving as a credible expert and strategic advisor on all things compensation.
• Own compensation governance frameworks, establishing and managing audit processes to ensure consistency, compliance, and competitiveness, and escalating risks with well-reasoned recommended solutions.
• Drive complex compensation projects from scoping through execution, for example: program redesigns and system implementations.
• Connect dots and create strong partnerships among the Total Rewards and Humans System and Operations function to ensure function wide learning, understanding, and education.

We're Excited About You Because

• You bring 8+ years of progressive compensation experience and have owned programs end-to-end with a high degree of autonomy, managing timelines and the coordination of work with others.
• You are highly analytical with strong Excel and data skills, and you know how to analyze and translate complex data into clear, compelling recommendations for a wide audience.
• You understand the importance of system integrity and maintenance. Direct experience with Workday and Pave is a plus!
• You have wide-ranging expertise in compensation design and a track record of resolving complex issues in creative and effective ways — you understand the numbers deeply and you also know when the human context matters most and how to bring creative, first-principles thinking to problems that don’t have easy answers.
• You’re a natural connector — you actively build relationships with key stakeholders inside and outside your immediate function, and you bring people along with you in your work.

A Few of Our Best Benefits

• Dog-friendly office in SoHo
• Market-competitive compensation and equity packages
• Comprehensive Healthcare, Dental, and Vision
• Company supported mental health benefits
• 12 week paid parental leave
• Competitive 401(k) plan with company match
• Flexible PTO
• Discounted fresh food for your pup
• Pet interruptions during video calls are now a feature, not a bug

Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

The Farmer's Dog, Inc. is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected veteran status or any other legally protected characteristic or status. For more information, please visit Know Your Rights.

Reasonable Accommodations

TFD complies with applicable federal, state, and local disability laws and makes reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact [e-mail].

NYC Pay Range: $135,000 - $150,000 USD.