Senior Compensation Manager

Who We Are: Optro, a $300M ARR company and one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America (ranked by Deloitte for the seventh year in a row), helps enterprises transform risk into opportunity through its AI-powered GRC Intelligence Platform. Over 50% of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the Fortune 10, leverage Optro’s award-winning technology. The company is top-rated on G2.com and Gartner Peer Insights.

At Optro, innovation and community are core values. The team focuses on creating the most loved audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform by customers, fostering a culture of collaboration and growth.

Why This Role is Exciting: Optro is a high-performance organization that values excellence. As the Senior Compensation Manager, you will partner in shaping Optro’s global compensation philosophy, ensuring rewards programs reflect the company’s high-performance culture. This role is pivotal in attracting, engaging, developing, and retaining top talent.

You will lead and scale global compensation programs, enabling managers and helping employees grow. Responsibilities include designing and delivering competitive, equitable, and innovative compensation programs, managing the annual compensation planning cycle, evolving job architecture, and designing bonus plans.

Key Responsibilities:

• Own and drive the development, execution, and expansion of Optro’s global compensation strategy, ensuring market competitiveness, internal equity, and alignment with international growth.
• Champion and leverage AI tools for insights and predictive analytics to advise leadership, empower managers, and guide decision-making.
• Lead the development and scaling of global pay structures, job families, localized pay bands, and total rewards frameworks, ensuring market competitiveness and internal equity.
• Conduct ongoing global market benchmarking and compensation analyses using industry surveys and external data to track market trends.
• Partner with People leaders, Finance, and executive leadership to align compensation structures and incentive plans with evolving business goals and financial models.
• Serve as the primary advisor and subject matter expert for People Business Partners and Talent Acquisition on complex compensation requests, including job pricing, competitive external offers, promotions, and out-of-cycle adjustments.
• Oversee the end-to-end administration of compensation cycles (merit, bonus, and equity planning), optimizing HRIS resources for seamless execution and global communications.
• Drive compensation analytics, reporting, and dashboard creation to evaluate pay equity, monitor workforce trends, and provide leadership with actionable data.
• Lead the design, implementation, and governance of short-term incentive plans, long-term incentives (LTIP), and specialized recognition/retention levers, including budget tracking and compliance.
• Ensure global compliance with federal, state, and local wage and hour regulations, including pay transparency laws, and manage external vendor relationships.
• Develop and deliver enablement training, documentation, and coaching to managers and leadership on Optro’s compensation philosophy and policies.

Attributes for a Successful Candidate:

• 10+ years in Total Rewards/Compensation
• Proven experience scaling a global company
• Experience working within a fast-growing global SaaS or tech company is strongly preferred
• Workday Compensation experience is strongly preferred
• Ability to challenge senior leaders on compensation decisions that don’t align with high-performance philosophies