Senior Manager, Global Compensation

✨ What You'll Be Doing

🔹 Design and evolve global compensation strategies that align with business priorities and talent goals.

🔹 Lead the development of scalable salary structures, benchmarking frameworks, incentive programs, and equity approaches.

🔹 Partner closely with Talent Acquisition, People Operations, Finance, Legal, and business leaders to ensure compensation programs remain competitive and effective.

🔹 Use market intelligence, analytics, and workforce insights to guide compensation decisions and recommendations.

🔹 Drive enterprise-wide compensation reviews, job architecture improvements, and governance processes.

🔹 Identify opportunities to automate, simplify, and improve compensation workflows and employee experiences within Workday and related systems.

🔹 Influence senior leaders through data-driven recommendations, presentations, and strategic guidance.

🌟 The Impact You'll Have

Your work will directly influence how Pax8 attracts, motivates, and retains talent across the globe. You'll create programs that empower hiring managers, improve employee experiences, enable better workforce planning, and ensure compensation remains aligned with our ambitions as a high-growth technology organisation. The frameworks you build today will help shape the future of our workforce tomorrow.

🧩 You'll Be a Great Fit If You Have...

• Strong experience designing and leading global compensation programmes

• Direct experience managing equity and stock option programmes within a privately held company

• Strong Workday knowledge, including process optimisation, system improvements, and scalable job architecture design.

• Experience partnering with business leaders and influencing stakeholders at senior levels.

• Demonstrated expertise using compensation benchmarking tools and market data to inform strategic decisions.

• A proactive, ownership-minded approach with the ability to thrive in environments where priorities evolve quickly.

• A passion for continuous improvement, automation, and creating exceptional internal customer experiences.

Preferred

🤝 Trust and Hiring

At Pax8, we care deeply about building genuine, trust based relationships — starting with how we hire.

To protect our business, our teams, and our customers, we use a range of measures throughout the recruitment process to help confirm authenticity and prevent fraud. These safeguards are designed to be fair, respectful, and proportionate, and may evolve as risks change. By applying, you acknowledge that we take steps to verify identity and representation during hiring. If you're applying as your authentic self, you have nothing to worry about — we're excited to meet you.

We also use thoughtfully applied AI-enabled tools to support our hiring process. These tools may assist with tasks such as reviewing or prioritising applications, but hiring decisions are made by our people. More information is available in our Recruitment Privacy Notice. If you have questions about how we hire or would prefer not to have your application supported by these tools, you can opt out at any part of our process.

🌈 Everyone's Welcome

We encourage you to apply even if you don't meet 100% of the criteria. We're committed to diverse perspectives, inclusive hiring and sharing your transferrable skills. To fulfil this role, you must hold valid right to work in United States.

💰 Salary & Benefits

Salary: depending on experience USD $160,000 - $175,000 annual

At Pax8 we believe that your Total Rewards should include a benefits package that shows how much we value our greatest assets. All FTE Pax8 people enjoy the following benefits:

• Non-Commissioned Bonus Plans or Variable Commission

• 401(k) plan with employer match

• Medical, Dental & Vision Insurance

• Employee Assistance Program

• Employer Paid Short & Long Term Disability, Life and AD&D Insurance

• Flexible, Open Vacation

• Paid Sick Time Off

• Extended Leave for Life events

• RTD Eco Pass (For local Colorado Employees)

• Career Development Programs

• Stock Option Eligibility

• Employee-led Resource Groups

📈 Grow With Us

There's extensive room for a talented individual to grow at pace — whether that's advancing quickly in this role or exploring one of the many opportunities across our global organisation. You'll have access to our internal development hub designed to accelerate your skills and stretch your potential. Alongside specialist Learning & Development trainers, you'll also tap into AI powered tools, "born in the cloud" mentors, and cross continent collaboration that broaden your perspective and sharpen your expertise. We'll give you the space, trust, and the right projects to help you thrive — and full visibility of what it takes to reach your next level.

☁️ About Pax8

Culture is important to us, and at Pax8, it’s business, and it IS personal. We are passionate, creative, and unconventional. We work hard, keep it fun, and expect the best! We Elev8 each other. We Advoc8 for our partners. We Innov8 continuously. We Celebr8 life. 

We embody our core values — We before Me , fostering teamwork and collaboration; Compassionate Candor , promoting open and honest communication with kindness; Light Up Learning , continuously growing and sharing knowledge; Seek to Understand , valuing diverse perspectives and thoughtful engagement; Do What You Say , ensuring trust and accountability; and Driven by Passion , bringing energy and dedication to everything we do—as we strive to innovate and empower our partners every day.

🔍 Background Checks

As part of our hiring process, we are required to undertake pre-employment checks on all candidates that are successful in their application with Pax8. As part of these checks Pax8 will request ID verification, reference requests and qualification checks (additional checks may be completed for certain countries, such as criminal and financial). All checks are completed by our third-party provider, First Advantage. Once checks have been completed all candidates will receive a copy for their records.

Equal Opportunities

Pax8 are an equal opportunities employer and welcome individuals who are in possession of the appropriate requirements to work within the country you have applied for. Offered individuals will be asked to undertake identity, security compliance and reference checks. Your privacy is important to us. Your data will be held in accordance with local best practices and processed only in accordance with our recruiting processes.

Privacy notice:

https://www.pax8.com/en-us/terms/job-applicant-privacy-notice/