This role is ideal for a senior compensation practitioner with 5+ years of experience who wants to transition from traditional HR or consulting into the heart o
Work type: onsite
Location: Orange County HQ | Denver Office | San Francisco
Salary: $135,000 – $175,000/yr
Type: Full-time
This role is ideal for a senior compensation practitioner with 5+ years of experience who wants to transition from traditional HR or consulting into the heart of a high-growth AI startup. You should have a deep mastery of job architecture and pay philosophy, combined with the "forward-deployed" mindset of a consultant who loves solve complex problems directly alongside customers. You will be working with an elite client list—including NVIDIA, OpenAI, and Stripe—earning a competitive salary of $135k–$175k. This isn't a back-office role; it’s a strategic opportunity to influence product roadmaps and redefine how global enterprises use AI to manage compensation. While the role emphasizes in-person collaboration at offices in Orange County, Denver, or San Francisco, it offers the career acceleration unique to a VC-backed category leader. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have led compensation strategy or market pricing at a tech firm or major consultancy. * Are bored with spreadsheets and eager to apply AI and automation to legacy HR workflows. * Enjoy being "tenant-facing," acting as a bridge between technical product teams and executive stakeholders. * Thrive in "high-stakes" environments where you own the outcome of major business decisions.
### About Compa
Compa is a venture-backed AI startup revolutionizing the future of compensation.
In a dynamic job market with hiring challenges, accountability, and the rise of AI, companies need the best data to stay ahead of industry changes, competition, and costs. Compa has developed the premier real-time compensation data platform, delivering top-tier compensation intelligence to leading enterprise teams.
Compa is a compensation intelligence company built to augment enterprise compensation teams in the era of AI.
Our customers include the world’s biggest companies: NVIDIA, Stripe, DoorDash, Open AI, TMobile, Moderna, Workday, Ulta, Target, and more.
Locations:
Compa headquarters are located in Irvine, California, with growing sites in Denver, Colorado and San Francisco, California. We’re a collaborative, curious, and driven team that values transparency, ownership, and continuous learning and prioritizing in person work where possible.
The Role:
Compa’s Forward Deployed Compensation Advisors are senior compensation practitioners who embed deeply with a portfolio of customers to drive high-stakes compensation decisions, accelerate product adoption, and ensure measurable business impact from Compa’s data and AI-powered, agentic solutions. This is not a traditional consulting, support, or sales role; Advisors operate as trusted extensions of customer compensation teams, owning outcomes and shaping how compensation work actually gets done.
You’ll sit at the intersection of compensation expertise, customer strategy, and product adoption, serving as both a strategic advisor to customers and a critical feedback loop into Compa’s product strategy.
In this role, you will: