# Sr. Compensation Manager

**Company**: Databricks
**Location**: Mountain View, California; San Francisco, California, California
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $217,800-$299,550 USD
**Category**: HR
**Industry**: Technology
**Wikidata**: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q18350420

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## Description

Databricks is seeking a strategic and experienced compensation lead to serve as a trusted partner to founders and senior leadership in our R&D org (technology and product teams).

This is a key role on the Compensation function at Databricks, reporting to the Senior Director of Compensation.

The successful candidate will support long-term business objectives by working within the overall Compensation philosophy to co-create compensation models that help attract, retain and motivate world-class technical talent.

**Scope of the role**

This is a hands-on, high-impact role that will effectively cover below areas and the anticipated time spent on each:

- Compensation solutioning for R&D Talent (40%)

- Managing Compensation processes through the employee life cycle (30%)

- Contributing to building and delivering enterprise-wide compensation programs/ frameworks (30%)

**Requirements**

We're looking for someone who has the following skills:

**Comp expertise**

- Job architecture, Comp frameworks, Market pricing, Year-end and Midyear pay cycle, global compensation practices, pay for performance design

- Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to synthesize complex data into clear outputs and recommendations

- Advanced capabilities required in Google Sheets, Excel; experience with Tableau, SQL, Python or AI for comp analytics is a plus

- Deep expertise in tech compensation practices, especially around new-hire and refresh equity strategies in the tech sector

- Ability to balance comp knowledge with business solutioning from a first principles viewpoint

**Operational and partnership excellence**

- Create innovative frameworks/solutions to not just solve today's issues but also thinking ahead and anticipating future needs

- Ability to connect the dots between systems, players, programs to seamlessly deliver compensation programs/ products

- Partner closely with founders and executive leadership to pre-empt, understand and solve business needs

- Navigate at times competing priorities and opinions to drive the best outcomes

- Act as a trusted advisor on compensation decisions, including offers, promotions, leveling, retention and M&A scenarios

**Pay Range Transparency**

The pay range(s) for this role is listed below and represents the expected salary range for non-commissionable roles or on-target earnings for commissionable roles.

Zone 1 Pay Range: $217,800-$299,550 USD

**Benefits**

At Databricks, we strive to provide comprehensive benefits and perks that meet the needs of all of our employees.

## Skills

### Required
- Job architecture
- Comp frameworks
- Market pricing
- Year-end and Midyear pay cycle
- global compensation practices
- pay for performance design
- Google Sheets
- Excel
- Tableau
- SQL
- Python
- AI for comp analytics

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