Director of Compensation Strategy

Replit; California (MO); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Equity

401(k) 4% match

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

Parental leave

Flexible PTO

Commuter benefits

Wellness stipend

In-office setup reimbursement

Team gatherings

Office amenities

Job summary

Replit is hiring to own and scale the compensation engine, translating philosophy into scalable systems and AI-enabled workflows. The role partners with People, Recruiting, Finance, and Data to embed compensation into workflows, reducing manual processes and enabling fast, fair decisions.

Based in Foster City, CA, this full-time position requires in-office days Monday, Wednesday, and Friday, with a strong emphasis on ownership, product-like thinking, and strategic partnership across teams.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in compensation, total rewards, or related analytical roles, ideally at a high-growth tech company.
• Deep expertise in salary bands, equity design, and market benchmarking (broad-based, sales, and executive)
• Strong systems thinker who can translate policy into scalable workflows and decision logic
• Product mindset - you think in terms of users, workflows, and iteration
• High ownership; willing to operate hands-on

Responsibilities

• Own compensation strategy across cash and equity, design and maintain salary bands, leveling, and equity structures.
• Ensure market competitiveness; partner with Finance on cost and workforce planning.
• Operate compensation planning cycles and generate first-pass recommendations.
• Build dashboards and analytical frameworks covering market competitiveness, internal equity, retention risk, and workforce cost.
• Design and implement AI-enabled workflows for offers, merit, promotions, and market adjustments.
• Build human-in-the-loop validation frameworks to audit AI-generated recommendations for bias, accuracy, and logic.

Skills

Compensation experience

Salary bands

Equity design

Market benchmarking

Systems thinking

Product mindset

Ownership

Tools

Pave

Radford

Rippling

Lattice

Ashby

Carta

Google Sheets

AI tooling

Job description

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

Role Summary

Replit is the world's most widely used AI coding platform, and as we scale, we're rebuilding how compensation works internally from the ground up. This role owns that. You'll go beyond traditional comp management to architect the systems, data infrastructure, and AI-enabled workflows that make fast, consistent, and high-quality compensation decisions possible at scale.

You will serve as the architect of our compensation engine: translating compensation philosophy into scalable systems, and utilizing AI to improve speed, accuracy, and transparency.

You will partner closely with People Business Partners, Recruiting, Finance, People Operations, and the Data team to embed compensation directly into company workflows, eliminating manual processes and reducing reliance on comp as a service layer.

You will shape how we attract, reward, and retain top talent, while building infrastructure that scales with the business.

What you'll own

Compensation Strategy

• Evolve our compensation philosophy across cash and equity; design and maintain salary bands, leveling frameworks, and equity structures

• Ensure market competitiveness while partnering with Finance on cost and workforce planning

• Operate compensation planning cycles and generate first-pass recommendations for comp decisions

• Build dashboards and analytical frameworks covering market competitiveness, internal equity, retention risk, and workforce cost

What we're looking for

• 8+ years in compensation, total rewards, or related analytical roles, ideally at a high-growth tech company

• Deep expertise in salary bands, equity design, and market benchmarking (broad-based, sales, and executive)

• Strong systems thinker who can translate policy into scalable workflows and decision logic

• Product mindset - you think in terms of users, workflows, and iteration

• High ownership; willing to operate hands-on

Nice to have

AI-Native Workflows

• Design and implement AI-enabled workflows for offers, merit, promotions, and market adjustments

• Build human-in-the-loop validation frameworks to audit AI-generated recommendations for bias, accuracy, and logic

Tools: Pave, Radford, Rippling, Lattice, Ashby, Carta, Google Sheets, internal AI/automation tooling

This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Full-Time Employee Benefits Include: Competitive Salary & Equity

401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)

Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance

Short Term and Long Term Disability

Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave

Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays

Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)

Monthly Wellness Stipend

Autonomous Work Environment

In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)

Quarterly Team Gatherings

In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)

Want to learn more about what we are up to?

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Interviewing + Culture at Replit

• Operating Principles

• Reasons not to work at Replit

To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.