Domain Expert, Total Rewards

OpenKrill; United States; Remote; USD 142,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Syndio equity

Flexible vacation policy

Paid parental leave

Medical, dental, vision coverage

Life Insurance & Disability

401(k)

Fully remote model

Job summary

Syndio is the leader in compensation governance and pay decision intelligence, helping large employers make fair, defensible pay decisions at scale. The Domain Expert (Total Rewards) provides expert guidance on job architecture, market data, pay ranges, and offer logic, translating analytics into product requirements for the Applied Expertise team.

You’ll own a compensation content area, build scalable resources, and work closely with product to embed compensation practice into our software,

Qualifications

• 5+ years in total rewards, compensation, or organizational design at enterprise scale.
• Deep facility with leveling frameworks, benchmarking methodology, and salary structure design.
• Ability to translate compensation practice into scalable content, tools, or standards.
• Experience discussing design tradeoffs with CHROs, comp committees, or HR leadership.
• Judgment to balance design options with outcomes and communicate clearly.
• Track record creating content or enablement materials that reduce calendar reliance.
• Experience linking compensation expertise to AI-enabled product capabilities.

Responsibilities

• Own a compensation content area and build scalable 1:many resources.
• Partner with product to embed compensation practice into the software platform.
• Translate analytics into product requirements and support design and implementation.
• Lead discussions with customers at executive levels about structure and framing.

Skills

Total rewards

Compensation

Organizational design

Job architecture

Market data

Pay range design

Offer construction

Geographic differentials

Incentive design

Job description

Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies while ensuring fair pay for all employees?

Syndio is the leading pay governance and compensation intelligence platform. We help organizations make better pay decisions at every stage of the compensation lifecycle, from leveling and offers to promotions and merit. Our platform gives HR, compensation, and finance leaders the data and decision support they need to govern pay fairly, compliantly, and with confidence. We partner with many of the world’s most recognized and respected enterprises, helping them implement leading-edge compensation solutions with expert guidance and analyzing pay for over 10 million employees across the world.

Join us in our mission to help companies make smarter pay decisions they can trust!

About the role

Syndio is the leader in compensation equity and pay decision intelligence, helping the world's largest employers make fair, defensible, and transparent pay decisions at scale. Syndio is the leader in pay equity, compliance and pay decision intelligence, helping the world's largest employers make fair, defensible, and transparent pay decisions at scale. As we expand across the compensation lifecycle, the total rewards practice depth behind our recommendations has to keep pace.

The Domain Expert (Total Rewards) is a hands‑on compensation practitioner on the Applied Expertise team. Draw on your past experience in total rewards strategy as well as Syndio‑provided training on best practices to provide expert advice on advanced total rewards topics to customers, fellow employees, and external audiences. This is a senior individual contributor role. You are the person our customers and our Syndio team turn to when the question is how pay should actually be structured — job architecture, market data, pay ranges, offer construction, geographic differentials — and how it should hold up in front of a CHRO, a comp committee, or a works council.

You own an area of Syndio's compensation content and product surface, build the 1:many resources that scale your expertise across the customer base, partner directly with the product team to embed compensation practice into our software platform, and show up in the customer conversations where the design choices have to hold. You will translate custom analytics into product requirements and support product, development and data science teams as needed on design and implementation plans, ensuring the product helps advance the outcomes for our customers.

Why this job is exciting

• Lead a squad. You will be an individual contributor but you will own an area of Syndio's compensation content surface — job architecture, market data integration, pay range design, offer intelligence, or a related domain. Guide the squad's roadmap, prioritize what gets built on the Applied Expertise team, and hold the practitioner bar for the work that ships.
• Apply total rewards expertise in complex customer situations. You will not design programs or conduct analysis, but you will help customers with the questions they can't resolve inside the product: implications of job architecture redesigns, salary structure and range‑sharing strategies, and offer logic. Bring the expertise, explain the tradeoffs, defend the approach.
• Build 1:many resources. Turn recurring compensation questions into durable content — customer briefings, design guides, model communication templates, worked examples — so recurring questions do not require a recurring meeting.
• Partner with the Product Team. Work directly with the Product Team to embed compensation practice into the software. Shape offer recommendation logic, range and structure inputs, and workflows. Catch the practitioner-level edge cases before customers do.
• Show up for the moments that matter. Anchor customer discussions and offer strategy conversations. You won’t be asked to every meeting, just the ones where getting the structure and the framing right changes the outcome.
• Feed the frameworks upward. Surface what current frameworks don't yet cover. Bring specific customer patterns and design gaps to the Principal-level colleagues and to the Product Team so the platform's intelligence keeps compounding.

About you

• 5+ years of hands‑on total rewards, compensation, or organizational design work, ideally with meaningful time in job architecture, market data, pay range design, or org design projects at enterprise scale.
• Deep facility with compensation practice: leveling frameworks, benchmarking methodology, salary structure design, offer construction, geographic differentials, incentive design.
• Experience translating compensation practice into something a broader team can execute — a playbook, a tool, a product, a set of standards — not just doing the work yourself.
• Demonstrated ability to hold a credible conversation with a CHRO, a comp committee, or an HRBP leadership team about design tradeoffs, and to write for those audiences.
• Strong judgment on the difference between presenting design options and prescribing outcomes, and comfort holding that line.
• Track record of building content, documentation, or enablement materials that reduce reliance on your calendar over time.
• Comfort thinking about how compensation expertise translates into AI‑mediated product capability, particularly for offer recommendation and structure design in Decisions.
• Experience in HR tech, compensation SaaS, or a related enterprise domain is a strong plus.

Why you'll love it here:

• Competitive Compensation. For this role our salary is targeted at $142,000 -$160,000 per year. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience and expertise. We take a geo neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location.
• Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success.
• Flexible Vacation Policy. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to, plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave.
• Paid parental leave
• Medical, Dental, Vision. Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums, and 50% for dependents.
• Life Insurance & Disability. Syndio covers the full premium.
• 401(k). To help you save for your future
• Fully remote model - #LI-Remote

The interview overview

• 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
• 45 minute zoom interview with the Hiring Manager (VP Applied Expertise)
• 45 minute zoom interview with our internal Toal Rewards Expert
• Panel interview with Applied Expertise team members - 1 hour
• Final interview with executive - 30 minutes

At Syndio, we're building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the "about you" listed here. We don't expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as you're willing to learn and grow with us.

Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion, physical disability and age.