Senior Compensation Partner

An overview of this role

As a Senior Compensation Partner, you will help GitLab build and sustain a high-performance culture by aligning compensation programs with our strategy, values, and team member experience. You will partner closely with Talent Acquisition and People Business Partners to support hiring, retention, and career growth through clear compensation guidance, consistent job architecture, and well-run compensation cycles. In this role, you will help the business make fair, compliant, and well-informed pay decisions across a globally distributed organization, while improving how we explain compensation and equity to team members.

What you'll do

• Serve as a senior compensation advisor to People Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders within assigned client groups.
• Build trusted relationships with senior leaders and cross-functional partners, influencing pay decisions.
• Lead or contribute to compensation program audits and pay equity analyses.
• Lead or contribute to the administration of compensation programs, including annual compensation reviews, promotion cycles, bonus programs, and sales commission plans.
• Evaluate complex compensation scenarios, including role leveling disputes, out-of-band offers, retention situations, and reorganizations.
• Use Workday reporting and dashboards to monitor program effectiveness, identify anomalies, and support real-time compensation decision-making.
• Maintain and evolve GitLab's global job architecture in collaboration with the Total Rewards team, ensuring it meets business needs.
• Promote a clear understanding of GitLab's compensation philosophy, practices, and administration across the organization.

What you'll bring

• Extensive progressive global compensation experience, including meaningful exposure to global programs in a high-growth or SasS environment.
• Demonstrated ability to partner with and influence senior business leaders and People Business Partners.
• Experience administering and improving complex global compensation programs, including annual reviews, promotion cycles, bonus plans, and sales compensation.
• Strong analytical skills with proficiency in building compensation models, conducting market analyses, and translating data into clear narratives.
• Workday compensation experience, including cycle management, job profile configuration, pay range administration, and reporting.
• Experience supporting global job architecture and job leveling work in partnership with cross-functional teams.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including creating training materials and delivering compensation education.
• Ability to support equity plan education in collaboration with Stock Administration, and to work within compliance requirements across multiple countries.
• Interest in GitLab's values and ability to use GitLab; we welcome transferable experience and encourage you to apply even if you don't match every requirement.

About the team

The Total Rewards team designs and runs GitLab's compensation and equity programs so team members are paid fairly and consistently across a globally distributed company. As a Compensation Partner, you'll work closely with teammates across Total Rewards and partner with Talent Acquisition, People Business Partners, and leaders across regions in an async-first way, using clear documentation and data to support decisions. The team also helps maintain GitLab's global job architecture and supports key compensation cycles and committee materials while staying aligned with applicable rules and regulations in the countries where we operate.