AlphaSense
Director, Compensation
Remote - United States · Director
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About the role
- A flexible, growth mindset, comfort with ambiguity and change, and successfully balancing operational excellence with a sense of urgency will be critical to success in the role.
Responsibilities
- Strategy. Define AlphaSense's multi-year compensation roadmap in alignment with market positioning that scales with the business. Own and manage the global compensation philosophy.
- Partner with People Business Partners, business leaders, and managers to design compelling, scalable compensation solutions by seeking to understand the desired outcome, sharing market expertise, and proposing solutions.
- Governance. Partner with Talent Acquisition on new-hire offers and with PBPs on internal mobility and promotion guidelines.
- Team Leadership. Build, coach, and develop a high-performing global Compensation team, fostering a culture of ownership, operational excellence, and continuous development.
- Own and manage the global compensation philosophy.
- Strong problem-solving and data analysis skills, with comfort synthesizing data across multiple sources to support decisions
- Demonstrated cross-functional partnership, building trust and alignment with Finance, Legal, and People Business Partners on shared, high-visibility decisions
- AlphaSense is the AI platform redefining market intelligence and workflow orchestration, trusted by thousands of leading organizations to drive faster, more confident decisions in business and finance.
- With AI solutions like Generative Search, Generative Grid, and Deep Research, AlphaSense delivers the clarity and depth professionals need to navigate complexity and obtain accurate, real-time information quickly.
- Structural Design.
Requirements
- Experience managing a team
- Experience managing multiple compensation cycles in Workday
- Exceptional results orientation with a high degree of personal initiative
- Comfort with ambiguity and change
- Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors including candidate experience/expertise and may vary from the amounts listed below.
Compensation
- a results-oriented leader ready to own the full compensation lifecycle, while building a high-performing team and partnering closely with the VP, Total Rewards, Finance, Legal, and business leaders across the company.
- We envision this highly visible, high-impact role as a strong influencer with the business and the go-to person for all things Compensation, including base pay, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives (equity).
- You will lead AlphaSense's Compensation team and act as the primary owner of the company's compensation philosophy, structure, and programs.
- This role requires prior experience scaling compensation functions at high-growth or newly public technology companies.
- You will partner with the VP, Total Rewards on executive compensation, and serve as the owner and subject matter expert for compensation matters across the business, balancing the discipline required of a company approaching IPO with the pace and flexibility of high-growth tech.
- Program Management. Own and manage broad-based compensation programs end-to-end, including Annual and Mid-Year compensation review cycles.
Benefits
- We envision this highly visible, high-impact role as a strong influencer with the business and the go-to person for all things Compensation, including base pay, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives (equity).
- Own and manage the global compensation structure across base, short-term incentives, and long-term incentives (equity), in alignment with job architecture.
- Partner with the VP, Total Rewards on the design, benchmarking, and administration of executive compensation programs.
- Conduct quarterly and ad-hoc analyses to ensure external competitiveness, internal equity, and legal/pay-transparency compliance.
- Education & Communication.
- Partner with the People Systems team on Workday configuration for compensation cycles, and with Payroll and Equity teams to ensure accurate transmission of payment and award data.
Company info
- You will lead AlphaSense's Compensation team and act as the primary owner of the company's compensation philosophy, structure, and programs.
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