Senior Compensation Partner

About the role

The Total Rewards team is looking for a Compensation Partner to support Anduril’s continued hyper growth. The role involves driving Anduril’s success by bringing compensation expertise to the leadership team and helping to scale the People infrastructure. Key responsibilities include leading compensation programs and projects, guiding People Business Partners and leadership teams through compensation planning cycles, designing, implementing, and managing comprehensive compensation programs, leading job evaluation processes, conducting market pricing analyses, ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness, resolving complex compensation issues, supporting strategic decision-making, and driving the implementation of compensation initiatives across the organization.

Responsibilities

• Lead compensation programs and projects, enabling Anduril to scale its People infrastructure.
• Guide People Business Partners and leadership teams throughout compensation planning cycles through calibration sessions and identifying compensation remedies.
• Design, implement, and manage comprehensive compensation programs, including salary structures, incentive plans, and equity compensation, aligned with organizational strategy and market trends.
• Lead job evaluation processes, conduct market pricing analyses, and ensure internal equity and external competitiveness across all job families and levels.
• Partner closely with leadership and HR teams to resolve complex compensation issues, support strategic decision-making, and drive the implementation of compensation initiatives across the organization.
• Work closely with our People Business & Talent Acquisition Partners on navigating compensation issues, analyzing compensation data, and creating materials for managers and employee trainings.
• Lead change management and communications of compensation practices with managers, team members, and across the People Team.
• Spearhead Anduril’s compensation philosophy and strategy as related to the growth of our company.
• Build strong partnerships with the People Business Partner, Talent, Legal, Stock, Finance and Accounting teams as well as our 3rd party vendors.

Requirements

• 6+ years of experience working in Compensation in roles.
• Experience with job architecture, levelling guides and market analytics to ensure competitive compensation practices.
• Experience working with internal stakeholders and executive leadership.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data and trends into key insights and recommendations.
• Proven ability to track, prioritize and drive to success multiple projects with a strong operational background.
• Passionate about educating, mentoring and teaching partners the values and business impact behind compensation strategies.
• Must be a U.S. Person due to required access to U.S. export controlled information or facilities.

Prioritized Qualifications

• Prior experience in a high growth, hyper scaling startup building compensation programs from the ground up.
• Prior experience leading compensation programs initiatives in a matrix-led organization.
• Prior experience includes mergers & acquisitions, talent acquisition strategy, and executive compensation knowledge is highly desired.

Pay

US Salary Range: $146,000 - $194,000 USD

Benefits

At Anduril, we invest in our people. Our comprehensive, competitive benefits package (available at little to no cost to employees) ensures you’re supported in health, recovery, and whatever comes next. For more information, explore our benefits.