OpenAI
Compensation Operations Analyst
San Francisco · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- This role is based in San Francisco, CA.
- We use a hybrid work model of 3 days in the office per week and offer relocation assistance to new employees.
- Bring rigor and precision to data auditing, validation, and lifecycle management.
Responsibilities
- Own configuration and day-to-day operations of compensation tools and HRIS compensation modules.
- Build and maintain compensation datasets, dashboards, audits, and data flows across systems.
- Lead compensation vendor relationships, including implementation, troubleshooting, and data submissions.
- Diagnose and resolve system issues, identify root causes, and drive process and tooling improvements.
- Partner with People Systems and Engineering to enhance architecture, workflows, and automation.
- Can manage and optimize tools at scale while navigating fast-moving environments.
- Communicate effectively across functions and are comfortable working with technical partners.
Nice to have
- Have strong HRIS configuration experience, especially with compensation planning modules
- Workday and Pave experience is preferred.
Skills
- The Compensation function ensures accuracy, scalability, and operational excellence across all compensation tools, systems, and data flows.
Compensation
- Manage annual and off-cycle compensation processes, ensuring data integrity, testing, quality assurance, and on-time execution.
Benefits
- Have 5+ years of experience in compensation operations, HR operations/systems, or total rewards tooling in high-growth or technology environments.
Company info
- OpenAI's People team supports a complex, rapidly growing organization of researchers, engineers, and business teams.
- OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity.
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