Compensation Program Manager

Slope; Costa Mesa (CA); On-site; USD 146,000 - 194,000; Full time

Job summary

Anduril Industries is seeking a Compensation Manager to architect and scale compensation across the company. You will partner with leadership to implement salary structures, incentives, and equity programs within a high growth environment.

Leverage your experience in job architecture, market analytics, and cross-functional collaboration to align compensation with strategy while ensuring internal equity and market competitiveness.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in compensation roles.
• Experience with job architecture, leveling, and market analytics.
• Experience with internal stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Strong analytical skills translating data into insights and recommendations.
• Ability to manage multiple projects with an operational mindset.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to access to U.S. export controlled information.

Responsibilities

• Lead compensation programs and projects to scale the People infrastructure.
• Guide leadership through annual and mid-year compensation planning cycles.
• Design and manage compensation programs including salary structures, incentives, and equity.
• Lead job evaluation, market pricing, and ensure internal equity and external competitiveness.
• Collaborate with leadership and HR to resolve complex compensation issues.
• Develop materials for Manager & Employee trainings and drive change management.
• Partner with various teams and vendors to implement compensation initiatives.

Skills

Compensation experience

Job architecture

Stakeholder mgmt

Analytical skills

Project management

Mentoring/education

US Person

Job description

Anduril Industries is a defense technology company with a mission to transform U.S. and allied military capabilities with advanced technology. By bringing the expertise, technology, and business model of the 21st century’s most innovative companies to the defense industry, Anduril is changing how military systems are designed, built and sold. Anduril’s family of systems is powered by Lattice OS, an AI-powered operating system that turns thousands of data streams into a realtime, 3D command and control center. As the world enters an era of strategic competition, Anduril is committed to bringing cutting‑edge autonomy, AI, computer vision, sensor fusion, and networking technology to the military in months, not years.

At Anduril, we’re not just disrupting defense technology – we’re revolutionizing how we value and compensate the brilliant minds behind our innovations. We’re seeking a Compensation Manager who’s ready to architect the future of our compensation strategy and propel Anduril to new heights and support continued growth.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

You will drive Anduril’s success by bringing your compensation expertise to our leadership team and helping us scale. Utilize and combine your prior high growth company experience, quantitative rigor, business mindset, and communication skills to serve as a strategic advisor to our People Business Partners.

• Lead compensation programs and projects, enabling Anduril to scale its People infrastructure including job architecture implementation.
• Guide People Business Partners and leadership teams throughout annual and mid‑year compensation planning cycles.
• Design, implement, and manage comprehensive compensation programs, including salary structures, incentive plans, and equity compensation, aligned with organizational strategy and market trends within our new HCM.
• Lead job evaluation processes, conduct market pricing analyses, and ensure internal equity and external competitiveness across all job families and levels.
• Partner closely with leadership and HR teams to resolve complex compensation issues, support strategic decision‑making, and drive the implementation of compensation initiatives across the organization.
• Work with People Business Partners on how to navigate compensation issues, calibration sessions, analyze compensation data and create materials for Manager & Employee Trainings.
• Lead change management and communications of compensation practices with managers, team members, and across the People Team.
• Build strong partnerships with the HROps, People Business Partner, Talent, Payroll, Legal, Stock, Finance and Accounting teams as well as our 3rd party vendors.
• You enjoy working at a place where no one minds if you leave early one day to go to an appointment or run an errand, but you also don’t mind responding to Slacks in the evening while you’re watching Netflix.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 6+ years of experience working in Compensation in roles.
• Experience with job architecture, levelling guides and market analytics to ensure competitive compensation practices.
• Experience working with internal stakeholders and executive leadership
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data and trends into key insights and recommendations.
• Proven ability to track, prioritize and drive to success multiple projects with a strong operational background.
• Passionate about educating, mentoring and teaching partners the values and business impact behind compensation strategies.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Prior experience in a high growth, hyper scaling startup building compensation programs from the ground up.
• Prior experience leading compensation initiatives through Mergers & Acquisitions, IPO Readiness & Stock Grant Report is highly desired.

US Salary Range

$146,000 – $194,000 USD

The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a wide range of compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training, critical skills, and/or business considerations. Highly competitive equity grants are included in the majority of full time offers; and are considered part of Anduril's total compensation package. Additionally, Anduril offers top‑tier benefits for full‑time employees, including:

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, Explore Our Benefits.