Senior Manager, Compensation Operations - Internal Only

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This role provides the operational foundation for Indeed’s global compensation function, combining program execution, analytics, systems expertise, and strategic project support. The person in this role owns end-to-end execution of core compensation programs, including annual compensation planning, merit, and bonus administration, while ensuring accuracy, compliance, governance, and audit readiness. In partnership with the Director of Compensation and teams across Total Rewards, Technology, Legal, and Finance, this role drives process improvements that reduce manual effort and improve scalability.

This role also serves as a key analytical and technical resource for the compensation function. Responsibilities include building analytical models that support compensation decisions, workforce planning, and geographic pay strategy; partnering on pay equity analyses and EU Pay Transparency readiness; and serving as the primary liaison between Total Rewards, HRIS, and People Analytics on Workday compensation configuration and systems infrastructure. The role also supports market benchmarking methodologies and high-priority initiatives across Total Rewards, including geographic expansion analyses, M&A integration, and compensation transformation efforts.

Who you are

• Compensation Operations & Program Execution: Execute annual compensation planning, merit cycles, and bonus administration, ensuring programs are delivered accurately and on time; maintain program accuracy, compliance, documentation, controls, and audit readiness while driving continuous improvement initiatives that reduce manual work and improve scalability, and strengthen the maturity of the compensation function.
• Analytics & Pay Equity: Partner with Total Rewards leadership on pay equity analyses and remediation planning, including EU Pay Transparency readiness; build analytical models and deliver insights on market competitiveness, position-in-range, pay-for-performance outcomes, workforce planning, and geographic pay analysis, while supporting reporting and compliance disclosures.
• Systems, Tooling & Infrastructure: Serve as the primary liaison between Total Rewards, HRIS, People Analytics, and technical teams on compensation systems and data infrastructure; manage Workday compensation configuration, testing, and change readiness for system upgrades, and identify opportunities to improve automation, data integrity, reporting, and user experience.
• Market Benchmarking & Methodology: Support the development of global market benchmarking methodologies and governance standards; partner with Compensation Partners to maintain consistent job leveling and market pricing practices, and analyze survey data from Radford, Mercer, Pave, and WTW to inform compensation recommendations and market positioning.
• Job Architecture Governance & Maintenance: Manage end-to-end governance and structural maintenance of the global job architecture, ensuring job families, levels, and titles remain scalable and aligned with organizational design; collaborate on salary range updates and maintain documentation, guidelines, and toolkits to promote consistency and compliance.
• Vendor & Market Data Management: Manage compensation vendor relationships, survey budgets, software renewals, and the end-to-end lifecycle of market data, including survey participation, data quality validation, and organizational access to salary benchmarks.
• Strategic Projects & Enterprise Support: Support high-priority initiatives across Total Rewards, including geographic expansion, offshoring, organizational restructuring, M&A integration, executive requests, and enterprise-wide projects; drive project management for compensation transformation efforts and coordinate cross-functional teams to deliver outcomes.

Who we are

• Requires a minimum of 14 years of related experience; or a minimum of 12 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 8 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 5 years experience.
• Demonstrated history  of progressive compensation experience, including ownership of annual compensation planning cycles, merit, and bonus in a global environment.
• Advanced analytical capability, with demonstrated experience building compensation models, conducting pay equity analyses, and translating complex data into actionable insights for senior leadership.
• Deep experience with Workday compensation configuration, operational administration, and partnering with HRIS and technical teams on system enhancements, testing, and change management.
• Demonstrated knowledge of market benchmarking practices, including survey data analysis (Radford, Mercer, Pave, WTW), job leveling, peer group governance, and geographic differential methodologies.

At this time, we are not considering candidates for this role who are based in the following locations: State of California, Seattle, WA, New York City Metro (Tri-State), Washington DC Metro Area.

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Tier 1 - United States of America 141,000 - 211,000 USD per year Tier 2 - United States of America 156,000 - 234,000 USD per year

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The deadline to apply to this position is July 8th. Job postings may be extended at the hiring team’s discretion based on applicant volume.