Senior Compensation Analyst — AI-Driven Pay & Analytics

Robinhood; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

100% paid health insurance (employee)

Dependent coverage 90%

Life & disability insurance

Fertility benefits

Mental health benefits

Paid time off & parental leave

Equity ownership & 401(k) matching

Job summary

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Compensation Analyst to own compensation analytics, model pay decisions, and support broad-based base pay and variable compensation programs. You will build scalable models, run tooling for People and Recruiting, and push automation to streamline operations from day one.

You will collaborate across People Partners, HRIS, Finance, and Legal while handling end-to-end merit, promotion, and incentives processes, with a hybrid work model supporting in-person

Qualifications

• 4–6 years of compensation experience.
• Advanced Excel/Google Sheets modeling with large datasets.
• Hands-on experience with HRIS, Compensation Data, and benchmarking tools.
• Fluency with AI tools and a bias for automating analytical work.
• Experience administering broad-based and variable/incentive compensation.
• Clear communication and ability to translate analysis into recommendations.
• Attention to detail and ownership with sensitive data.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain compensation models for market benchmarking, budgeting, scenario analysis, and data reconciliation.
• Drive compensation analytics: survey participation, market pricing, trend analyses, and pay competitiveness.
• Design and maintain reporting trackers, dashboards, and budgets with accurate, timely reporting.
• Administer annual merit, promotion, and variable/incentive cycles end to end.
• Build and improve compensation systems, tooling, and databases; design automations to reduce manual work.
• Support M&A compensation due diligence, harmonization, and integration efforts.
• Use AI and automation to accelerate benchmarking, analysis, and communications.
• Collaborate with People Partners, HRIS, Finance, and Legal on cross-functional initiatives.

Skills

Compensation experience

Excel modeling

HRIS & benchmarking

AI tools familiarity

Merit & incentive experience

Communication skills

Job description

Robinhood is seeking a Senior Compensation Analyst to own compensation analytics, model pay decisions, and support broad-based base pay and variable compensation programs. You will build scalable models, run tooling for People and Recruiting, and push automation to streamline operations from day one.

You will collaborate across People Partners, HRIS, Finance, and Legal while handling end-to-end merit, promotion, and incentives processes, with a hybrid work model supporting in-person