Compensation Partner - Equity & AI-Driven Pay Programs

Gusto; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 106,000 - 131,000; Full time

Job summary

Gusto, a growth-focused payroll and benefits company, seeks a Compensation Partner to own and scale compensation programs across teams. You will drive data-driven decisions, leveraging automation and AI to accelerate analyses, audits, and reporting, while partnering with HR, Finance, and Legal to ensure market-aligned pay structures.

You will manage annual cycles, benchmarking, and equity refresh, ensuring data integrity in Workday and related tools.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in Compensation, Total Rewards, People Operations, or related analytical function.
• Hands-on AI tools experience to accelerate analysis or documentation.
• Strong analytical foundation with spreadsheet skills (lookups, pivots, formulas).
• Attention to detail and ability to own recurring, deadline-driven work.
• Exposure to compensation fundamentals like salary bands, market benchmarking, or offer modeling.
• Comfort handling highly confidential information with discretion.
• Clear written communication to explain numbers or processes simply.
• Interest in compensation and employment law (FLSA, pay transparency).
• High integrity and intellectual curiosity about processes.
• Quantitative background in Math, Finance, Statistics, Economics preferred.

Responsibilities

• Support the execution of compensation programs and cycles, including merit, promotion, and equity refresh.
• Serve as first point of contact for compensation questions from HRBPs, recruiters, and managers.
• Manage annual compensation cycles from data collection through communication.
• Conduct job matching and market benchmarking using survey data and prepare recommendations.
• Model and prepare hire, promotion, and internal transfer recommendations against bands.
• Maintain compensation data integrity across systems and run audits.
• Prepare recurring pay position dashboards and ad hoc analyses for partners.
• Use AI tools to automate recurring analysis with validation where needed.
• Support compliance with pay regulations and postings.
• Document and improve compensation processes for repeatability.

Skills

Compensation

AI fluency

Excel/Sheets

Attention to detail

Confidentiality

Communication

Benchmarking

Quantitative background

Job description

Gusto, a growth-focused payroll and benefits company, seeks a Compensation Partner to own and scale compensation programs across teams. You will drive data-driven decisions, leveraging automation and AI to accelerate analyses, audits, and reporting, while partnering with HR, Finance, and Legal to ensure market-aligned pay structures.

You will manage annual cycles, benchmarking, and equity refresh, ensuring data integrity in Workday and related tools.