The Compensation Manager develops and manages compensation programs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals while overseeing market benchmarking, advisory roles, budgeting processes, and vendor relationships.
Attentive® is the AI-powered mobile marketing platform transforming the way brands personalize consumer engagement. Attentive enables marketers to craft tailored journeys for every subscriber, driving higher recurring revenue and maximizing campaign performance. Activating real-time data from multiple channels and advanced AI, the platform personalizes content, tone, and timing to deliver 1:1 messages that truly resonate.
With a top-rated customer success team recognized on G2, Attentive partners with marketers to provide strategic guidance and optimize SMS and email campaigns. Trusted by leading global brands like Neiman Marcus, Samsung, Wayfair, and Dyson, Attentive ensures enterprise-grade compliance and deliverability, supporting trillions of interactions across more than 70 industries. To learn more or request a demo, visit www.attentive.com or follow us on LinkedIn, X (formerly Twitter), or Instagram.
Attentive’s growth has been recognized by Deloitte’s Fast 500, Linkedin’s Top Startups and Forbes Cloud 100 all thanks to the hard work from our global employees!
About the Role
The Compensation Manager is responsible for developing, implementing, and administering the organization's compensation programs. Their primary role is to ensure that the organization's compensation policies and practices align with its business objectives and comply with all relevant regulations. They will additionally manage external market survey vendors, execute survey submissions, retrieve results, and consolidate and analyze data returns for use in pay structure and merit salary increase analytics and related recommendations. The position will lead the compensation review process. Additional responsibilities include activity related to other compensation-based elements, such as job evaluations; job codes; ad hoc market research/analysis related to business requirements, etc.
What You'll Accomplish
- Market Benchmarking & Survey Management
- Advisory & Stakeholder Partnership
- Compensation Program Management
- Compensation Cycle & Budgeting
- Executive & Governance Support
- Systems & Vendor Management
Complete and submit compensation surveys; analyze results to assess Attentive’s market position. Conduct annual band refreshes, evaluating changes needed based on market trends, survey data, and internal structures.
Advise People Business Partners, Recruiting, FP&A, and business leaders on compensation and equity benchmarks for current and prospective employees. Provide first-line guidance on job architecture topics including leveling, classification, and equity frameworks.
Maintain global job codes, levels, and salary/equity bands; ensure internal consistency and external competitiveness. Partner with the Director of Compensation and Benefits to assess and enhance compensation philosophy, programs, and tools.
Lead annual and mid-year salary review processes, including tool preparation, salary budget planning, guideline creation, and post-cycle reporting. Support the creation of the equity grant budget and scenario modeling for compensation strategy proposals.
Prepare compensation-related materials for quarterly reporting and executive dashboards. Build and maintain Compensation Committee decks related to executive compensation, equity usage, and benchmarking.
Manage compensation vendor relationships, oversee contract timelines, and evaluate tool effectiveness ahead of renewals.
Your Expertise
- Bachelor’s degree or relevant experience
- 5+ years of experience working in compensation
- Prior experience in the technology industry, primarily in SaaS Companies
- International Compensation Experience Advanced Excel/Google Sheets skills (Vlookups, Pivot Tables, Dynamic Sheets)Ability to both think and work strategically but also hands-on in day-to-day administration
- Ability to work with a sense of urgency in a dynamic environment Ability to forward think and anticipate our needs and get ahead of them
- Ability to be solutions-oriented and, when problems arise, have a clear proposal for moving forward
- Pave and Radford Experience a plus
- ADP Workforce Now Experience a plus
You'll get competitive perks and benefits, from health & wellness to equity, to help you bring your best self to work.
For US based applicants:
- The US base salary range for this full-time position is $122,400 - $153,000 annually + equity + benefits
- Equity is a substantial part of the total compensation package
- Our salary ranges are determined by role, level and location
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Attentive Company Values
Default to Action - Move swiftly and with purpose
Be One Unstoppable Team - Rally as each other’s champions
Champion the Customer - Our success is defined by our customers' success
Act Like an Owner - Take responsibility for Attentive’s success
Learn more about AWAKE, Attentive’s collective of employee resource groups.
If you do not meet all the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply! No job description is perfect, and we may also have another opportunity that closely matches your skills and experience.
At Attentive, we know that our Company's strength lies in the diversity of our employees. Attentive is an Equal Opportunity Employer and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds. Our policy is to provide equal employment opportunities for all employees, applicants and covered individuals regardless of protected characteristics. We prioritize and maintain a fair, inclusive and equitable workplace free from discrimination, harassment, and retaliation. Attentive is also committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities. If you need any assistance or reasonable accommodations, please let your recruiter know.
Top Skills
Adp Workforce Now
Excel
Google Sheets
Pave
Radford
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