Senior Compensation Manager
@ 110 Visa U.S.A. Inc.Senior Compensation Manager
About the job
Visa is a leader in payments technology, enabling secure transactions worldwide. This role focuses on developing and implementing compensation strategies to attract and retain top tech talent globally, impacting lives across 200+ countries.
Requirements
- 8+ years relevant work experience
- Strong knowledge of compensation principles
- Experience supporting engineering talent
- Analytical and presentation skills
- Ability to influence senior leaders
Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree or higher
- Experience in global, matrixed organizations
- Strong project management skills
- Proficiency in MS Office and Workday
- Certified Compensation Professional preferred
Full job description
About Us
Visa is a world leader in payments technology, facilitating transactions between consumers, merchants, financial institutions and government entities across more than 200 countries and territories, dedicated to uplifting everyone, everywhere by being the best way to pay and be paid.
At Visa, you'll have the opportunity to create impact at scale — tackling meaningful challenges, growing your skills and seeing your contributions impact lives around the world.
Join Visa and do work that matters – to you, to your community, and to the world. Progress starts with you.
Job Description
Visa is seeking a strategic and business-focused Senior Compensation Manager to support our global Technology organization. This role serves as a trusted compensation advisor to senior leaders, People Business Partners, and Talent Acquisition teams, delivering compensation solutions that attract, retain, and motivate world-class technology talent.
The successful candidate will partner closely with key stake holders to develop and implement compensation strategies aligned with Visa's Total Compensation Philosophy and business objectives. This role requires strong analytical capability, executive presence, and the ability to influence decisions in a dynamic, high-growth environment.
Key Responsibilities:
Serve as the lead compensation consultant for assigned client groups, providing strategic guidance on compensation programs, policies, and practices.
Partner proactively with client facing People Business Partners, Talent Acquisition along with Business Leadership to identify and address compensation challenges.
Support executive and senior leader decision-making through data-driven compensation analyses and recommendations.
Act as a consultant with client groups on compensation issues such as job evaluation, FLSA exemption reviews, compensation analyses and total compensation reviews.
Partner with People Business Partners and senior leaders to execute the annual compensation review process for assigned client groups, delivering a well-governed, efficient, and data-driven compensation planning experience.
Participate in the development and drive the execution of compensation processes and initiatives such as annual review, incentive and equity plans, ad hoc analyses, projects and reporting for assigned client groups.
Conduct market pricing and competitive compensation analyses to evaluate the competitiveness of Visa’s pay programs and provide recommendations for salary structure enhancements and annual updates.
Provide and deliver compensation training and education materials to HR and people leaders.
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
8 or more years of relevant work experience with a bachelor's degree or at least 5 years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 2 years of work experience with a PhD
Preferred Qualifications:
9 or more years of relevant work experience with a Bachelor Degree or 7 or more relevant years of experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD) or 3 or more years of experience with a PhD.
7+ years of progressive business/HR experience, with a significant portion dedicated to compensation-related roles and responsibilities.
Strong knowledge of compensation principles, job architecture, market pricing methodologies, and incentive design.
Experience supporting engineering and other technology talent populations.
Strong analytical skills with the ability to develop quantitative models (e.g. complex forecasting) and translate complex data into actionable business recommendations. Exceptional accuracy and attention to detail.
Ability to present information in a concise and meaningful manner to people leaders and senior leaders.
Demonstrated teamwork, relationship-building skills and ability to influence and partner effectively with senior leaders and HR executives.
Experience working on compensation issues in a complex matrixed global organization is strongly preferred.
Strong project management and organizational skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
Strong knowledge of MS Office (Word, Excel and PowerPoint); Workday and market pricing tools (e.g. CompAnalyst).
Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) preferred.
Excellent verbal, written, and presentation skills.
Information for US Applicants
Work Hours
Varies upon the needs of the department.
Travel Requirements
This position requires travel 5-10% of the time.
Mental/Physical Requirements
This position will be performed in an office setting. The position will require the incumbent to sit and stand at a desk, communicate in person and by telephone, frequently operate standard office equipment, such as telephones and computers.
Visa is an EEO Employer
Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protect veteran status. Visa will also consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the EEOC guidelines and applicable local law.Similar jobs in Foster City, CA
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