Senior Compensation & Equity Strategy Lead

Cars Commerce; United States; On-site; USD 135,000 - 169,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision plans

New Hire Stipend for Home Office

Generous PTO

Paid Holidays & Volunteer Day

Job summary

Cars Commerce, Chicago-based, seeks a Principal Compensation Partner reporting to the Sr. Director of Total Rewards to own major compensation processes end-to-end. You will design programs, model equity outcomes, and provide strategic consultation to senior leaders to solve business challenges.

You will help establish job architecture, market pricing, and a scalable analytics platform, ensuring data trust and governance across pay decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive compensation experience, including executive compensation and equity administration.
• Proven ability to own and build compensation processes end-to-end.
• Strong Excel and financial modeling skills.
• Experience presenting to senior leadership and Compensation Committee materials.
• Analytical rigor with clear written and verbal communication.

Responsibilities

• Support executive compensation programs, including base salary, annual and long-term incentives; prepare materials for Compensation Committee.
• Lead design and refinement of core compensation programs and pay equity processes.
• Own equity program administration: grant modeling, vesting, dilution analysis, reconciliation with equity systems.
• Offer strategic consultation to HR partners and senior leaders on business challenges.
• Develop a scalable compensation analytics platform with reusable models, dashboards, and QA.

Skills

Executive compensation design

Equity administration

Compensation program development

Excel & modeling

Leadership communication

Tools

Workday

Radford/Aon

Carta

Pave

Compa

Job description

Cars Commerce, Chicago-based, seeks a Principal Compensation Partner reporting to the Sr. Director of Total Rewards to own major compensation processes end-to-end. You will design programs, model equity outcomes, and provide strategic consultation to senior leaders to solve business challenges.

You will help establish job architecture, market pricing, and a scalable analytics platform, ensuring data trust and governance across pay decisions.