Senior Compensation Manager
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At Podium, we bring AI Employees to local businesses that turn every conversation into revenue. Trusted by 60,000+ businesses across Auto, Home Services, and Aesthetics, Podium captures and converts leads 24/7, driving both new business and repeat customers.
In under 24 months, we crossed $100M in AI Agent ARR, scaling 300% year-over-year. During this time, we’ve deployed 10,000 AI employees to empower real business outcomes for our customers. Podium is building what we believe will be the most impactful AI employee ecosystem for local business.
Podium has been recognized as the Best AI Implementation by Inc. Magazine, highlighted by OpenAI for building revenue-driving AI Agents, and awarded the #1 AI Agent for Business Operations by G2.
Our growth is fueled by hiring exceptional people, holding them to high standards, and creating opportunities for them to grow and make an impact. Our operating principles guide daily behavior and ensure we hire people who will thrive at Podium. If you're hungry for growth, aligned to our operating principles, and ready to get to work, you won't find a better place to learn and accelerate your career.
The Role
We are looking to hire a high-performing Senior Compensation Manager to join our team. In this role, you will own the end-to-end compensation program at Podium, including equity and executive compensation, to ultimately help Podium hire and retain the best global talent. As a leader in People Operations, you will also play an active role in influencing organization design and job architecture.
What you will be doing:
- Partner with executives and senior leadership to ensure our compensation program is attracting the right talent and driving the right behaviors and outcomes for the business
- Oversee annual compensation planning process, including merit cycle, promotions, off-cycle changes, and executive compensation
- Design and maintain role classification and benchmarking to ensure we remain competitive and aligned to market trends
- Own our global equity program, including equity pool planning, management, forecasting, and expansion
- Refresh and maintain Podium’s compensation philosophy across all roles
- Partner in broader people operations priorities, including job architecture, leveling, and any other relevant projects
What you should have:
- 5+ years of experience in Compensation at a software company
- Experience building scalable compensation programs in a fast-moving, evolving environment
- Excellent analytical and quantitative skills, including Google Sheets/Excel
- Strong understanding of compensation principles (including equity), market trends, and regulatory requirements
- Strong business acumen, able to partner with leaders to drive business outcomes over academic structure
- Proficiency in using compensation survey tools (i.e., Radford)
- Effective executive communication skills with the ability to present complex topics in a clear manner and partner with leaders on sensitive topics
Benefits
- Open and transparent culture
- Life insurance, long and short-term disability coverage
- Paid maternity and paternity leave
- Fertility Benefits
- Generous vacation time, plus three 4-day summer holiday weekends
- Excellent medical, dental, and vision benefits
- 401k Plan
- Bi-annual swag drops with cool Podium gear and apparel
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Podium
View Company ProfilePodium (operating under podium.com, legally Podium Corp Inc.) is the premier, enterprise-grade interaction management platform, lead conversion pioneer, and local business marketing orchestration powerhouse engineered to act as the definitive, high-velocity customer communication, reputation management, and automated text-payment layer for thousands of brick-and-mortar stores, healthcare practices, automotive shops, and local service providers across the United States, Canada, and Australia. Co-founded in 2014 by visionary software and tech entrepreneurs Eric Rea and Dennis Steele, the company completely eliminates the severe systemic friction of modern local business growth—where local merchants drop over 60% of potential leads due to fragmented communication channels, delayed phone tag loops, and manual review collection hurdles—by deploying its centralized conversational text matrix. Moving far beyond traditional, passive CRM tools or generic email marketing templates, Podium natively unifies multi-channel messaging (spanning SMS, Google Business Profile, Facebook Messenger, and Instagram), AI-powered automated lead routing, text-to-pay invoicing, localized phone systems, and bulk web review acquisition tools into a single high-availability unified inbox. Operating at massive scale, the platform empowers over 100,000 local businesses to connect with millions of consumers, driving double-digit increases in review volume and customer acquisition pipelines within months of deployment. Validating its dominant category leadership and immense market momentum, the high-growth giant has raised over $419 million in institutional venture funding—backed by top-tier capital groups including Y Combinator, Accel, Institutional Venture Partners (IVP), Sapphire Ventures, Summit Partners, and Alkeon Capital. Under the hood, its technology framework utilizes advanced natural language processing (NLP) to automate immediate customer intake, real-time message routing pipelines, secure payment ledger integrations compliant with PCI standards, and developer-friendly API endpoints optimized to pass transaction logs into accounting frameworks with absolute precision and data integrity. What sets Podium apart is its uncompromising dedication to replacing slow, analog merchant operations with absolute communication predictability, conversational lead capture, and instant local search visibility; by bridging the gap between performance-intensive relational communications software and the everyday realities of running a localized enterprise, the corporation remains a definitive cornerstone of modern algorithmic local marketing and global commerce transformation.
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