Viant Technology
Sr. Manager, Compensation
Irvine, California, United States · Senior
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odds of building a lasting career here
Sponsors, but it's cap-subject — you still face the weighted lottery (~61% per draw at Level IV). Good if you win; have a cap-exempt backup on your list.
Lottery odds assume a STEM candidate.
Personalize to your clock →H-1B wage level
the lottery is wage-weighted — each level is one more entry
$5,123 more — $170,123 — moves this role to Level III and 3 lottery entries. That figure is inside the range the employer already advertised.
Based on the DOL prevailing wage for this occupation and worksite, a base salary of $170,123 would place this position at wage Level III. That figure is within the posted range, and I'd like to target it. This role classifies under "Compensation and Benefits Managers" for prevailing-wage purposes.
DOL prevailing wage, 2026-27 wage year · Compensation and Benefits Managers (11-3111) · Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Wage level is derived by USCIS from the offered wage, occupation and worksite; the occupation shown is inferred from the job title.
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About the role
- LIFE AT VIANT Investing in our employee's professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being.
- Viant is an equal opportunity employer and makes employment decisions on the basis of merit.
- Viant also prohibits unlawful discrimination based on the perception that anyone has any of those characteristics, or is associated with a person who has or is perceived as having any of those characteristics.
Responsibilities
- This role delivers the analytical horsepower and operational precision behind Viant's compensation strategy.
- Build, maintain, and reconcile compensation files used for comp cycles and executive reviews.
- Own day-to-day accuracy of the compensation census-job codes, bands, geography, cost centers-and partner with HRIS on audits, validations, and corrections.
- Maintain rolling headcount and compensation forecasts
- Collaborate cross-functionally with HR Ops and TA on job changes, data accuracy, workflows, system builds, and compensation inputs for budgeting and forecasting.
- They partner closely with the Sr.
- Ability to manage deadlines, maintain accuracy, and operate with discretion.
- Viant uniquely combines proprietary content intelligence, household-level identity resolution, and person-level attention signals to connect advertisers with real customers and drive measurable outcomes across the open internet.
- Through its award-winning AI solutions, Viant is building the future of autonomous advertising, where AI doesn't just assist the campaign, it delivers real results.
Nice to have
- Experience partnering with HRIS teams
- ADP, Charthop and Greenhouse familiarity a plus.
Compensation
- In accordance with California law, the range provided is Viant's reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role.
- Final title and compensation for the position will be based on several factors including work experience and education.
- $165,000 - $185,000
- Run annual merit, bonus, and equity cycles end-to-end, including data prep, audits, templates, modeling, and manager support.
- Conduct market pricing, maintain job architecture and salary bands, evaluate new job requests, and ensure consistent leveling and pricing across functions and locations.
- model the impact of hires, exits, promotions, and adjustments to support annual and ongoing planning.
Benefits
- That's why Viant was voted one of the best places to work and some of our favorite employee benefits include fully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more.
- Final title and compensation for the position will be based on several factors including work experience and education.
- This role owns compensation cycles, benchmarking, internal equity analysis, census accuracy, and compensation data integrity across all systems.
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to review offers, ensure internal equity, validate band placement, and support offer guidelines and negotiation guardrails.
- Produce compensation dashboards and analytics (compa-ratios, distribution, equity, compression, geographic differentials, risk areas) and provide ad hoc insights to HR, TA, and Finance.
- Ensure compliance with pay transparency laws, internal equity standards, SOX requirements, and maintain audit-ready documentation for all compensation decisions.
- 4 to 7+ years experience in Compensation, Total Rewards, or Finance/FP&A with compensation exposure.
Visa & Work Authorization
- ssion, age, military status, veteran status, uniformed service member status, sexual orientation, transgender identity, citizenship status, pregnancy, or any other consideration made unlawful by federal, state, or local
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