Compensation Manager

Priority Technology Holdings, LLC•Alpharetta, GA

12d•$123,000 - $151,000•Remote

About The Position

The Compensation Manager is an expert on compensation operational matters, responsible for managing and optimizing all compensation programs, processes, and tools across the US and Canada, while providing process and tooling oversight for India. This role ensures fair, compliant, and scalable pay practices, maintains compensation data integrity, and partners with global stakeholders to improve the employee compensation experience through structured frameworks, market insights, and operational excellence.

Requirements

5+ years of compensation or Total Rewards operations experience, with deep expertise in the US compensation market and working knowledge of Canadian compensation administration preferred.
Experience owning compensation systems and tooling governance, including configuration, documentation, access controls, and process standardization.
Proven experience designing, maintaining, and governing salary bands and role-to-band mapping.
Hands-on experience of a job architecture framework, including job families, levels, leveling criteria, and job catalog governance, managed through tools or HRIS configuration.
Experience running compensation audits, approvals, and documentation that are structured, repeatable, and audit-ready.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and enable People teams in scaling compensation processes (particularly in India), without owning individual regional pay outcomes.
Strong knowledge of compensation compliance requirements in the US and Canada, including documentation standard and regulatory risk mitigation.
Experience managing sensitive data with discretion and operational rigor.
Owns and operates compensation foundations immediately, including salary bands, leveling, job architecture, and compensation data tooling.
Grows strategic influence over time as compensation programs and global processes mature.

Responsibilities

Owns and manages the tools and systems that serve as the source of truth for compensation data, job grading, salary bands, band assignment, and job architecture. Maintains configuration, governance, workflows, access controls, documentation, and adoption standards across US and CAN, and oversees process and tooling consistency for India.
Owns salary band creation, updates, market benchmarking, governance, and role-to-band mapping for US and Canada. Oversees India compensation band processes and ensures structured, compliant, audit-ready role-to-band assignment guidance is maintained.
Owns the creation and maintenance of job architecture structure, job families, levels, leveling criteria, job catalog governance, and the tools that maintain them. Ensures roles are accurately mapped to levels and compensation bands. Partners with Organization Effectiveness on business alignment, expectation setting, and operational consistency.
Owns and oversees operational execution of bonus cycles, equity administration, pay governance, approvals, and documentation for US and Canada. Supports Finance, ELT, and People Operations with audit-ready records, cycle tracking, and payout governance.
Owns market benchmarking processes for US and Canada, maintaining internal equity and external competitiveness. Produces benchmark summaries, salary band updates, market positioning guidance, and pay fairness analysis for stakeholders.
Owns governance for global compensation tooling standards, with a focus on enabling scalable, normalized compensation processes. Ensures tools are responsibly managed, documented, and aligned to published frameworks.
Ensures compliance with federal and state exemption classification laws.
Ensures compliance with pay transparency laws.