Compensation Consultant - Payscale

About Payscale

Payscale is the pioneer of compensation intelligence, helping organizations make smarter pay decisions that drive business performance. For more than 20 years, Payscale has combined trusted market data with AI-powered technology to deliver actionable insights that turn pay from a cost into a catalyst for growth. The Payscale Intelligence Cloud portfolio of solutions — Ascent, JobNav, and Paycycle — empower top companies and businesses like Cintas, Leidos, Chipotle, Ohio State University, and TJX Companies.

What We Do

Payscale's Compensation Services team partners strategically with clients across their entire compensation journey. We help organizations build foundational compensation strategies, design competitive pay structures, establish job families and level frameworks, and enhance pay transparency and communications — serving as trusted advisors who guide clients through complex compensation decisions across diverse industries, geographies, and organizational complexities. Our role is to combine deep compensation expertise with data-driven insights from Payscale's platform to deliver tangible, measurable outcomes that help clients build defensible, strategic compensation programs.

What You'll Do

• Manage Complex Client Engagements: Serve as project manager on high-value, complex compensation projects that often require cross-functional collaboration with benchmarking, revenue, and other internal teams to deliver comprehensive solutions.
• Execute Core Compensation Initiatives: Support and manage a range of project types within our service offerings — from stakeholder alignment and compensation strategy development through job pricing, structure modeling, job family framework development, policy documentation, and compensation communications training.
• Provide Compensation Consultation: Deliver deep compensation expertise across benchmarking and market pricing, salary structure design, and job architecture — interpreting complex market data and tailoring recommendations to unique client circumstances and business objectives.
• Facilitate Client Conversations: Partner with client stakeholders, including senior leaders, to discuss compensation strategy, findings, and recommendations, building credibility as a trusted compensation partner.
• Support Team Collaboration and Learning: Share knowledge and best practices with teammates and support onboarding, shadowing, and peer review as needed.
• Collaborate Cross-Functionally: Partner across teams to deliver comprehensive client solutions, troubleshoot complex issues, regularly share best practices, and support revenue teams on prospect and renewal calls.
• Contribute to Process Improvement: Identify gaps in team competencies, suggest professional development opportunities, and participate in departmental process improvements that enhance service delivery.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of hands-on compensation experience, including demonstrated expertise in:
  • Benchmarking and market pricing across multiple industries, geographies, and data sources
  • Salary structure design, development, and analysis
  • Job architecture, job family frameworks, and job leveling
  • Compensation strategy development and implementation
• Strong project management skills with the ability to manage moderately complex to highly complex client engagements independently.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, particularly the ability to communicate compensation concepts clearly to a range of client stakeholders, including senior leaders.
• Advanced Excel and data analysis capabilities.
• Client-facing experience delivering consulting services or professional services to external clients.
• Willingness to share compensation expertise and support the development of teammates.

Nice to Have

• Experience with global job architecture and international compensation structures.
• Knowledge of variable pay structure design (incentive compensation, bonus structures).
• Experience with pay equity analysis and pay transparency initiatives.
• Certification in compensation, such as CCP.

Work Environment & Requirements

Payscale operates on an employee-centric remote-first model. Employees can choose to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or a combination of both. When working from home, candidates should meet the following requirements:

• High-Speed Internet: A stable broadband or fiber connection (minimum 100 Mbps) in a dedicated workspace.
• MFA Device: A smartphone or tablet for multi-factor authentication.
• In-Person Gatherings: Occasional travel for team gatherings (usually no more than a few times a year).

Benefits & Perks

• Flexible paid time off and 14 paid company holidays (including 2 floating holidays).
• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life, and disability insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale.
• Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through medical plans.
• 401(k) retirement program with fully vested immediate company match.
• 16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents.
• HSA options with company contributions each pay period and FSA options.
• Annual remote work stipend for wellness or home office equipment.
• Access to company-paid co-working spaces.
• Continued learning and development opportunities and ERGs.