Senior Compensation & Equity Architect

Limiting Factor Group; Palo Alto (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options / long-term incentives

401(k) plan

Medical, vision, and dental coverage

Paid vacation and holidays

Short-term disability and life保险

Employee discounts

Job summary

Limiting Factor Group is hiring its first compensation professional to design pay structures, bands, and review cycles for a diverse workforce across office, engineering and hourly sites. You will own the compensation philosophy, benchmarking, and equity guidelines while partnering with Finance and Recruiting to drive fair and competitive offers.

Reporting to the Head of People and Talent, you will build job architecture, salary bands, and state-specific ranges for California and Washington, and

Qualifications

• 7+ years of compensation experience with pay structure redesign.
• Hands-on with job leveling, salary bands, market pricing and survey data.
• Experience designing pay for salaried and hourly/field employees across states.
• Knowledge of CA and WA pay rules incl. wage/hour, transparency and equal pay.
• Experience running compensation review cycles and using HRIS.
• Strong analytical skills for modeling pay changes.
• Discretion with confidential pay information.

Responsibilities

• Define compensation philosophy and pay alignment with market.
• Build job architecture, levels and criteria for office, engineering and hourly roles.
• Create salary bands and wage scales for all levels, accounting for state differences.
• Benchmark roles, select surveys and adjust ranges as markets move.
• Advise Recruiting on offers to ensure competitiveness and consistency.
• Design bonus/incentive plans; collaborate on equity guidelines and grants.
• Lead performance and compensation review cycles, merit budgets and promotions.
• Review equity pay across roles and ensure compliance across states.
• Ensure pay practices are compliant in CA and WA for exempt/non-exempt roles.
• Partner with Finance on headcount budgeting and cost modeling.

Skills

Compensation experience

Job leveling

Market pricing

HRIS experience

Analytical skills

Education

Certified Compensation Professional (CCP)

Tools

HRIS

Job description

Limiting Factor Group is hiring its first compensation professional to design pay structures, bands, and review cycles for a diverse workforce across office, engineering and hourly sites. You will own the compensation philosophy, benchmarking, and equity guidelines while partnering with Finance and Recruiting to drive fair and competitive offers.

Reporting to the Head of People and Talent, you will build job architecture, salary bands, and state-specific ranges for California and Washington, and