Compensation Operations Analyst

OpenAI; United States; Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Relocation assistance

Job summary

OpenAI is hiring a Compensation Operations Analyst in San Francisco. The role is deeply operational and technical, focusing on configuring HRIS modules, managing compensation tools, and ensuring pristine data quality.

You will partner with People Systems, Total Rewards, Finance, and vendors to keep the compensation infrastructure accurate, scalable, and audit-ready. This role is based in San Francisco with a hybrid work model (3 days in the office per week) and relocation assistance for new

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in compensation operations, HR operations/systems, or total rewards tooling in high-growth or technology environments.
• Strong HRIS configuration experience.

Responsibilities

• Own configuration and day-to-day operations of compensation tools and HRIS compensation modules.
• Manage annual and off-cycle compensation processes, ensuring data integrity, testing, quality assurance, and on-time execution.
• Build and maintain compensation datasets, dashboards, audits, and data flows across systems.
• Lead compensation vendor relationships, including implementation, troubleshooting, and data submissions.
• Diagnose and resolve system issues, identify root causes, and drive process and tooling improvements.
• Partner with People Systems and Engineering to enhance architecture, workflows, and automation.
• Ensure high data accuracy across compensation systems and proactively identify gaps, risks, or anomalies.
• Translate technical or complex compensation system issues into clear guidance for stakeholders.

Skills

Compensation operations

HRIS configuration

Data quality management

Vendor management

Job description

About the Team

OpenAI’s People team supports a complex, rapidly growing organization of researchers, engineers, and business teams.

The Compensation function ensures accuracy, scalability, and operational excellence across all compensation tools, systems, and data flows.

About the Role

We’re hiring a Compensation Operations Analyst to build and run the systems, tools, and processes that power compensation at OpenAI.

This role is deeply operational and technical: you will configure HRIS modules, manage compensation tools end-to-end, maintain pristine data quality, and ensure compensation cycles run flawlessly.

You’ll partner closely with People Systems, Total Rewards, Finance, and vendors to keep our compensation infrastructure accurate, scalable, and audit-ready.

This role is based in San Francisco, CA. We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.

In this role, you will:

• Own configuration and day-to-day operations of compensation tools and HRIS compensation modules.
• Manage annual and off-cycle compensation processes, ensuring data integrity, testing, quality assurance, and on-time execution.
• Build and maintain compensation datasets, dashboards, audits, and data flows across systems.
• Lead compensation vendor relationships, including implementation, troubleshooting, and data submissions.
• Diagnose and resolve system issues, identify root causes, and drive process and tooling improvements.
• Partner with People Systems and Engineering to enhance architecture, workflows, and automation.
• Ensure high data accuracy across compensation systems and proactively identify gaps, risks, or anomalies.
• Translate technical or complex compensation system issues into clear guidance for stakeholders.

You might thrive in this role if you:

• Have 5+ years of experience in compensation operations, HR operations/systems, or total rewards tooling in high-growth or technology environments.
• Have strong HRIS configuration experience,