Principal Compensation Partner

Intuit; San Diego (CA); On-site; USD 196,000 - 265,000; Full time

Job summary

Intuit, Inc. is seeking a Compensation Business Partner to work with executives and HR partners to design and implement compensation solutions that attract, motivate, and retain top talent. You will drive multi-year compensation strategies and lead cross-functional programs leveraging data and AI.

This role partners with executive teams to balance business needs with pay equity, benchmarking, and cost considerations, building trusted relationships and scalable processes across the organization.

Qualifications

• 7–10 years of experience in compensation or HRBP roles.
• Strong ability to design incentive plans, salary structures, and job architecture.
• Proven business acumen and ability to influence pay decisions.
• Analytical skills including benchmarking and financial modeling.
• Experience framing compensation options for executives and driving decisions.
• Experience aligning HR and leadership teams across functions.

Responsibilities

• Partner with executive teams to drive the compensation agenda.
• Design total compensation and job management approaches to hire, develop, and retain talent.
• Lead scalable compensation programs and cycles, including incentives and salary structures.
• Collaborate with HR, Talent Acquisition, and People Analytics to deliver solutions.
• Use analytics and AI to model pay decisions and business cases.
• Establish governance so programs scale beyond a single project.
• Improve pay competitiveness and retention metrics.

Skills

Compensation design

Executive partnering

Data analytics

AI in HR

Business acumen

Education

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in HR, finance, or economics

Tools

HR technologies

People analytics

AI tools

Job description

Intuit Compensation Business Partners drive the acceleration of business growth and amplification of Intuit’s culture through compensation strategies and programs that help us attract, motivate, and retain the talent needed to deliver our strategy. To do that, they drive multi-year compensation strategies, lead change management, and maximize impact and scale through high performing executives and leadership teams.

Compensation Business Partners are people champions who accelerate the business through deep compensation craft, business acumen, data analysis, and change leadership skills.

As a Compensation Business Partner, you will partner with executive teams and HR Business Partners to execute the talent strategy and plan. You will work with executives to identify needs, prioritize, and design compensation solutions that enable employees to do the best work of their lives in service to our customers. You will be a people champion, business accelerator, and data-driven change leader, and you will build deep trusted relationships that allow you to have a lasting impact on the organization and team.

Responsibilities

• Act as a key, influential partner to executive leadership teams and HR Business Partners with direct accountability for driving the compensation agenda in partnership with senior leadership
• Use deep understanding of the business strategy to design the total compensation and job management approaches that help us hire, develop, and retain the talent needed to deliver it
• Design and lead scalable compensation programs, including short- and long-term incentive plans, salary structures, midyear and year-end reward and promotion cycles, and job offer guidance
• Operate seamlessly with key partners across People & Places including HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Talent Development, and People Analytics to deliver compensation and broader talent solutions
• Use HR technologies, people analytics platforms, and AI to proactively analyze market benchmarks, pay alignment, and cost, and to model and build the business case for reward and talent decisions
• Establish governance, standards, and repeatable mechanisms so programs scale and outlast any single project or owner
• Drive improvement in key metrics such as pay competitiveness, retention, pay-for-performance alignment, and mobility

Qualifications

• 7-10 years experience in a compensation or HR Business Partner or related role partnering with executives to build high-performing teams and lead change
• Deep compensation craft: experience designing incentive plans, salary structures, and job architecture and running compensation cycles
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (in a Human Resources, finance, or economics-related field preferred), or equivalent work experience
• Strong business acumen—demonstrated ability to learn business objectives quickly and influence pay and talent decisions that impact business outcomes
• Strong analytical and AI skills, including market benchmarking, pay equity analysis, and financial modeling, with direct ownership of interpreting data to influence decision making
• Experience framing compensation options and tradeoffs (cost, alignment, competitiveness) for executives and driving them to decisions
• Experience building relationships across the HR function as well as across leadership teams, within and outside of the core client groups

Intuit provides a competitive compensation package with a strong pay for performance rewards approach. This position may be eligible for a cash bonus, equity rewards and benefits, in accordance with our applicable plans and programs (see more about our compensation and benefits at Intuit: Careers | Benefits). Pay offered is based on factors such as job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and work location. To drive ongoing fair pay for employees, Intuit conducts regular comparisons across categories of ethnicity and gender.

The expected base pay range for this position is:
Mountain View $205,500 - $278,000
San Diego, CA $195,500- $264,500