Lead Compensation Business Partner
$163,000–$203,500 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Own Lattice's end-to-end compensation function as our sole compensation leader, setting direction for global programs and bi-annual cycles. Partner with senior leadership to provide data-driven guidance on strategy, market positioning, and complex pay decisions while guiding People Partners and hiring managers on consistent application of compensation philosophy. Lead executive compensation, equity analysis, and quarterly Compensation Committee preparation, translating market data and governance requirements into clear recommendations. Establish principles and decision frameworks for offers, promotions, and retention actions, leveraging AI and automation to improve workflows and accuracy. Collaborate with Finance, Legal, and Product teams to strengthen systems and bring practitioner expertise into compensation product development. Maintain strong governance over data and processes to ensure auditability and operational excellence.
Required Qualifications
- 8–10+ years of progressive compensation experience
- ownership of complex programs in a dynamic or high-growth environment
- Deep expertise across broad-based and executive compensation
- equity strategy
- market benchmarking
- job architecture
- compensation modeling
- Experience supporting Compensation Committee or board-level processes
- developing clear, decision-ready recommendations
- Strong business acumen and judgment
- ability to navigate ambiguity
- explain tradeoffs
- challenge assumptions
- influence senior stakeholders
- Experience establishing compensation principles
- governance
- decision frameworks that improve consistency and scale
- Advanced analytical skills
- fluency with modern analytics
- AI-enabled tools
- ability to turn complex data into actionable insights
- Strong executive communication
- cross-functional partnership skills across People, Finance, Legal, Recruiting, and business leadership
- Comfort operating as the sole compensation leader
- owning both strategy and execution
- managing multiple high-stakes priorities
- Experience in a fast-growing SaaS organization
- incentive compensation
- compensation product development
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in a fast-growing SaaS organization, incentive compensation, or compensation product development is a plus
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