Remote Global Compensation Lead | Strategy & Data

Chainlink Labs; Boston (MA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 200,000; Full time

Job summary

Chainlink Labs is seeking an experienced compensation lead to own the operating engine of broad-based compensation across offers, promotions, salary structures, and market pricing, reporting to the Head of Total Rewards. This hands-on role blends strategy, analytics, and execution to evolve our compensation function.

You will partner with People Partners, Talent Acquisition, People Ops & Tech, Finance, and Legal to build scalable processes, benchmark against markets, and design accessible

Qualifications

• 7+ years of broad-based compensation experience in a global org; 10+ years for senior level.
• Experience owning compensation programs across offers, promotions, cycles, pricing, and salary structures.
• Strong benchmarking and market-pricing expertise with major surveys/datasets.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets modelling; working with structured data.
• Ability to turn complex compensation questions into clear options.
• Experience advising senior leaders on compensation decisions.
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management across audiences.
• Ability to operate in ambiguity and build scalable processes.
• Cross-functional collaboration with People Ops, TA, Finance, Legal, and HRIS/People Tech.
• Builder mindset with interest in using data, automation, and AI to improve work.

Responsibilities

• Own the execution and evolution of broad-based compensation programs (offers, promotions, cycles, pricing, salary structures).
• Lead global pay equity, job architecture, workforce planning, and program design.
• Build compensation models, dashboards, and analyses for business/People decisions.
• Lead benchmarking, survey participation, job matching, market pricing, and pay competitiveness analyses.
• Review complex offers and escalations across levels/functions/global markets with clear recommendations.
• Partner with People Tech on migration to Pave and compensation data infra development.
• Design clear, accessible compensation views/resources for managers and teams.
• Advise People Partners and leaders on compensation strategy and programs.
• Translate data and trade-offs into concise executive-ready recommendations.

Skills

Compensation design

Market pricing

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Excel/Google Sheets modelling

Tools

Pave

Workday

SQL/BigQuery

Benchmarking platforms (Radford/Mercer)

Job description

Chainlink Labs is seeking an experienced compensation lead to own the operating engine of broad-based compensation across offers, promotions, salary structures, and market pricing, reporting to the Head of Total Rewards. This hands-on role blends strategy, analytics, and execution to evolve our compensation function.

You will partner with People Partners, Talent Acquisition, People Ops & Tech, Finance, and Legal to build scalable processes, benchmark against markets, and design accessible