Senior Compensation Leader - AI-Driven Pay & Equity

Human Resources Exam SHRM; New York, Northern (NY, KY); Hybrid; USD 152,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Gusto is seeking a Senior Compensation Partner to lead compensation programs across the company, partnering with HRBPs, Finance, and Legal. The role emphasizes data-driven decisions, equity, benchmarking, and regulatory compliance, with AI-enabled tooling to improve analysis and scalability.

Offices in Denver, SF, and New York support a hybrid setup. You will own annual cycles, conduct market analyses, and build dashboards to provide leaders with real-time pay insights.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in Compensation, Total Rewards, People Operations, or a related analytical function.
• AI fluency: hands-on experience using AI tools or automation to accelerate analysis.
• Experience running compensation cycles (merit, equity, benchmarking) and building scalable programs.

Responsibilities

• Develop, implement, and communicate compensation programs, policies, and procedures, ensuring internal equity, external competitiveness, and alignment with business strategy.
• Lead annual compensation cycles (merit, equity refresh, benchmarking) and end-to-end process.
• Design scalable compensation workflows and tooling with automation to reduce manual analyses.

Skills

AI fluency

Data analysis

Executive communication

Compensation modeling

Education

Quantitative degree preferred

Tools

Radford/Aon/Mercer survey tools

AI tools

Job description

Gusto is seeking a Senior Compensation Partner to lead compensation programs across the company, partnering with HRBPs, Finance, and Legal. The role emphasizes data-driven decisions, equity, benchmarking, and regulatory compliance, with AI-enabled tooling to improve analysis and scalability.

Offices in Denver, SF, and New York support a hybrid setup. You will own annual cycles, conduct market analyses, and build dashboards to provide leaders with real-time pay insights.