Pave
Engineering Manager, Compensation Planning
San Francisco, CA
Sponsorship not specified$196k-$265kDetected 5 days ago
DatabricksMachine LearningProduct ManagementProduct StrategyCompensationCommunicationCollaboration
About the role
- The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we're making it happen right now.
- We run a hybrid culture that brings teams together in person 3 to 4 days a week - and every Friday, the whole company gathers for our Team Sync: breakfast, new hire welcomes, product updates, fireside chats, and yes, the occasional Kahoot.
Responsibilities
- Lead and grow an engineering team building the core planning and recommendation workflows used by compensation teams at companies like OpenAI, Databricks, and Atlassian
- Manage the team while staying close to the code: you should be comfortable reviewing designs and diving into implementation details when needed
- Drive the technical roadmap to help drive the product towards supporting companies with 150,000+ employees
- Partner with Product and Design to translate complex compensation planning requirements into technical requirements
- Confidence diving into technical details and challenging designs or solutions
- Demonstrated ability to lead and mentor teams through planning and execution of large technical projects spanning multiple quarters
- As you develop, your role expands, your responsibilities deepen, and your compensation reflects the impact you're making.
- We've raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures.
- This team owns one of Pave's highest-revenue product lines.
- You'll partner closely with Product and Design to shape the product roadmap, and with other engineering teams to align on the technical roadmap.
Nice to have
- experience with b2b saas and/or financial systems where correctness and auditability of calculations are critical
- Compensation, It's What We Do.
- We're always happy to walk you through how we think about leveling - just ask.
- Targeted cash compensation for this role:
- $195,500 - $264,500
- Fuel for the Work: Lunch and dinner stipends plus fully stocked kitchens, so you can stay energized without thinking twice about it.
- And we're just getting started.
Compensation
- As you develop, your role expands, your responsibilities deepen, and your compensation reflects the impact you're making.
- At Pave, we're building the industry's leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning.
- Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision.
- Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald's, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190+ billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 70% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation.
- The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we're making it happen right now.
- The Compensation Planning Team @ Pave
Benefits
- Your Health, Fully Covered: Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family, with a range of options designed to meet you where you are.
- Time That's Actually Yours: Flexible PTO and the freedom to work from anywhere in the world for up to a month - because life doesn't pause, and neither should you.
- Room to Keep Growing: A quarterly education stipend to invest in the skills and knowledge that matter most to you.
- Support When It Matters Most: Robust parental leave so you can be fully present for the moments that count.
- Getting Here, Made Easier: A commuter stipend to support the in-person collaboration that makes great work happen.
Company info
- At Pave, we're building the industry's leading compensation platform, combining the world's largest real-time compensation dataset with deep expertise in AI and machine learning. Our platform is perfecting the art and science of pay to give 8,500+ companies unparalleled confidence in every compensation decision.
- Top tier companies like OpenAI, McDonald's, Instacart, Atlassian, Synopsys, Stripe, Databricks, and Waymo use Pave, transforming every pay decision into a competitive advantage. $190+ billion in total compensation spend is managed in our workflows, and 70% of Forbes AI 50 use Pave to benchmark compensation.
- The future of pay is real-time & predictive, and we're making it happen right now. We've raised $160M in funding from leading investors like Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, Y Combinator, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Craft Ventures.
- The Compensation Planning Team @ Pave
- breakfast, new hire welcomes, product updates, fireside chats, and yes, the occasional Kahoot.
- It's one of the things people notice when they join us - that we truly enjoy spending time together.
- Be Intellectually Honest - Truth over comfort. We face reality clearly and speak directly, even when it's hard.
- Play to Win - We're not here to participate. We're here to be the #1 compensation platform in the world, and we act like it.
- Uphold the Pave Platinum Standard - We hold ourselves to the highest bar - for our customers, our data, and each other.
- One Team - We win and lose together. Titles don't drive decisions here - shared goals do.
- Hug of Jawn - Hard to define, impossible to miss. Ask your recruiter.
- Build confidence in every compensation decision.
- We build software that transforms how companies pay their people - and we believe the team behind that software deserves the same thoughtfulness.
- If you're ready to help shape the future of compensation alongside people who are smart, humble, and genuinely motivated by the problem we're solving, we'd love to meet you.
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