Senior Manager, Compensation & Analytics

Viant; Irvine (CA); On-site; USD 165,000 - 185,000; Full time

Job summary

Viant is seeking a Sr. Manager, Compensation to drive hands-on execution across compensation cycles, benchmarking, and data integrity for all systems.

You will partner with HR, TA, and Finance to ensure clean data and disciplined pay practices while delivering the analytical horsepower behind Viant's compensation strategy. You will manage annual merit, bonus, and equity cycles, maintain salary bands, conduct market pricing, and provide dashboards and scenarios to support planning and

Qualifications

• 4 to 7+ years experience in Compensation, Total Rewards, or Finance/FP&A with compensation exposure.
• Strong comp analysis, modeling, benchmarking, and data accuracy skills.
• Solid understanding of compensation best practices, job leveling, pay equity, and salary structures.
• Expert in Excel and comfortable manipulating large datasets.
• Experience partnering with HRIS teams; ADP, ChartHop and Greenhouse familiarity a plus.
• Ability to manage deadlines, maintain accuracy, and operate with discretion.
• Strong communication skills and ability to explain comp concepts to managers and leaders.

Responsibilities

• Run annual merit, bonus, and equity cycles end-to-end, including data prep, audits, templates, modeling, and manager support.
• Build, maintain, and reconcile compensation files used for comp cycles and executive reviews.
• Conduct market pricing, maintain job architecture and salary bands, evaluate new job requests, and ensure consistent leveling and pricing across functions and locations.
• Own day-to-day accuracy of the compensation census - job codes, bands, geography, cost centers and partner with HRIS on audits, validations, and corrections.
• Maintain rolling headcount and compensation forecasts; model the impact of hires, exits, promotions, and adjustments to support annual and ongoing planning.
• Provide cost analyses, scenario modeling, and recommendations during reforecast and planning cycles, streamlining and automating reporting where possible.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to review offers, ensure internal equity, validate band placement, and support offer guidelines and negotiation guardrails.
• Produce compensation dashboards and analytics (compa-ratios, distribution, equity, compression, geographic differentials, risk areas) and provide ad hoc insights to HR, TA, and Finance.
• Ensure compliance with pay transparency laws, internal equity standards, SOX requirements, and maintain audit-ready documentation for all compensation decisions.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with HR Ops and TA on job changes, data accuracy, workflows, system builds, and compensation inputs for budgeting and forecasting.

Skills

Compensation analysis

Modeling

Data accuracy

Communication skills

Tools

Excel

ADP

ChartHop

Greenhouse

Job description

Viant is seeking a Sr. Manager, Compensation to drive hands-on execution across compensation cycles, benchmarking, and data integrity for all systems.

You will partner with HR, TA, and Finance to ensure clean data and disciplined pay practices while delivering the analytical horsepower behind Viant's compensation strategy. You will manage annual merit, bonus, and equity cycles, maintain salary bands, conduct market pricing, and provide dashboards and scenarios to support planning and