This role is for one of our clients
Compensation: $50 - $200 per hour
We're looking for Total Rewards practitioners with depth in one or both of the following. Either one on its own is enough.
Requirements
Compensation design & architecture
- Built salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture from the ground up
- Owned an annual compensation cycle: merit planning, promotion decisions, bonus programs, equity refresh
- Benchmarked against a peer set you then had to defend to a skeptical exec team
- Designed incentive structures that were simple, credible, and changed behavior
Equity program management
- Designed option and RSU programs: grant guidelines, pool planning, vesting structures, refresh philosophy
- Worked through 409A valuations, plan governance, and grant administration at a venture-backed company
- Built the modeling and communication that lets candidates and employees understand what their equity is worth
Those two are what we screen on. Nothing below is required. If you have the whole Total Rewards picture, say so.
Also valuable
- Compensation philosophy, benchmarking methodology, pay equity and pay transparency
- Compensation design for a global or contractor workforce at scale
- Benefits program design, HRIS and compensation tooling
- Executive compensation, plan governance, or equity through IPO readiness
Skills Required
- Experience building salary bands, leveling frameworks, and job architecture from the ground up
- Experience owning annual compensation cycles, including merit planning, promotion decisions, bonus programs, and equity refreshes
- Experience benchmarking compensation against a peer set and defending the methodology to executive stakeholders
- Experience designing simple, credible incentive structures that influence behavior
- Experience designing option and RSU programs, including grant guidelines, pool planning, vesting structures, and refresh philosophy
- Experience with 409A valuations, equity plan governance, and grant administration at a venture-backed company
- Experience building equity modeling and communications explaining equity value to candidates and employees
- Experience with compensation philosophy, benchmarking methodology, pay equity, and pay transparency
- Experience designing compensation for global or contractor workforces at scale
- Experience with benefits program design, HRIS, and compensation tooling
- Experience with executive compensation, plan governance, or equity through IPO readiness
What We Do
Weekday is an AI-powered recruitment platform that helps startups hire top-tier engineering and product talent. By leveraging a massive database of white-collar professionals and advanced outreach tools, the company streamlines the hiring process through automated sourcing, AI-driven resume screening, and white-glove contingency services. Their mission is to modernize recruitment by enabling companies to discover and engage passive candidates efficiently, ensuring high-quality hires for critical roles.
