Lead Compensation Business Partner, Lattice
$163-203.5k
+ Stock Options
Employee success platform
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Employee success platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$163-203.5k
+ Stock Options
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To build cultures where employees and their companies thrive.
Role
Who you are
- 8–10+ years of progressive compensation experience, including ownership of complex programs in a dynamic or high-growth environment
- Deep expertise across broad-based and executive compensation, equity strategy, market benchmarking, job architecture, and compensation modeling
- Experience supporting Compensation Committee or board-level processes and developing clear, decision-ready recommendations
- Strong business acumen and judgment, with the ability to navigate ambiguity, explain tradeoffs, challenge assumptions, and influence senior stakeholders
- Experience establishing compensation principles, governance, and decision frameworks that improve consistency and scale
- Advanced analytical skills and fluency with modern analytics and AI-enabled tools, with the ability to turn complex data into actionable insights
- Strong executive communication and cross-functional partnership skills across People, Finance, Legal, Recruiting, and business leadership
- Comfort operating as the sole compensation leader, owning both strategy and execution while managing multiple high-stakes priorities
- Bachelor's degree required; Advanced degree or relevant certification (CCP, GRP) preferred
- Experience in a fast-growing SaaS organization, incentive compensation, or compensation product development is a plus
What the job involves
- Come join us on our mission to build cultures where employees and companies thrive
- As a senior member of our People team, you’ll shape compensation strategies that help Lattice attract, reward, and retain top talent
- Reporting to the VP of Talent Development, the Lead Compensation Partner will own Lattice’s compensation function end to end
- As our sole compensation leader, you’ll set the direction for our global programs, lead our bi-annual compensation cycles, lead executive compensation and Compensation Committee work, maintain our pay structures, and advise senior leaders on complex and precedent-setting decisions
- This role sits within the Talent Development team, creating a unique opportunity to connect compensation with performance, development, DEIB, and people analytics
- You’ll also have the opportunity to partner directly with Product, Engineering, and Design to bring practitioner expertise into the development of Lattice’s compensation product
- We’re looking for someone with deep executive and broad-based compensation expertise who can turn analysis into clear recommendations, build scalable governance, and raise the compensation judgment of the people around them
- You’ll operate with significant autonomy and lead through expertise and influence across the organization
- Partner with senior leadership, People Partners, and people managers to provide clear, data-driven guidance on compensation strategy, market positioning, program effectiveness, and complex pay decisions
- Own the planning and execution of bi-annual compensation cycles for employees, including market analysis, budget modeling, manager guidance, calibration, executive recommendations, communications, and follow-through
- Lead executive compensation and equity analysis, translating market data, company performance, internal equity, retention considerations, and governance requirements into clear recommendations
- Drive quarterly Compensation Committee preparation and execution, including analysis, decision materials, stakeholder alignment, equity recommendations, and follow-through
- Establish and maintain principles, decision frameworks, and governance for offers, equity grants, promotions, retention actions and other precedent-setting compensation decisions
- Guide and challenge People Partners, Talent Acquisition, and hiring managers on compensation decisions, helping them navigate tradeoffs and apply Lattice’s compensation philosophy consistently
- Partner with Finance, Legal, and People Operations to strengthen the systems, processes, controls, and operating rhythms that support our compensation programs
- Leverage AI and automation to improve compensation workflows, reporting, and analysis, reducing manual work, increasing accuracy, and scaling the function
- Serve as a trusted advisor to Product, Engineering, and Design, bringing practitioner expertise and customer insight into the development of Lattice’s compensation product
- Lead cash and equity modeling, benchmarking, and reporting to inform compensation strategy, workforce planning, pay equity, and retention decisions
- Connect compensation with performance, development, DEIB, and people analytics to identify risks, improve outcomes, and strengthen Lattice’s broader talent strategy
- Maintain strong governance over compensation data, structures, processes, and documentation to ensure consistency, auditability, and operational excellence
Our take
Modern HR departments face many challenges, such as maintaining employee engagement, often across a distributed workforce. Lattice’s people success platform solves this problem.
Lattice enables companies to launch effective performance review cycles, implement OKRs and facilitate manager meetings, all of which are proven to drive engagement and productivity. Lattice’s solutions are now trusted by over 5,000 business leaders, including executives at Reddit, Slack and Cruise. And the company is now valued at over $3B, which is testament to industry confidence in its product.
Recently, the company has launched a London office, which will accelerate its international expansion, aided by some serious funding. Scaling in this way will be an instrumental part of their future success, allowing the company to compete with rival HR software providers, and become central to carving out the new world of work.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
109% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Jan 2022
$175m
SERIES F
Mar 2021
$60m
SERIES E
Total funding: $329.4m
Company HQ
Rincon Hill, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sarah Franklin
(CEO)Prior to joining Lattice in 2024, Sarah spent 16 years at Salesforce, while there she held various roles, including President & CMO. She also worked at Amazon Web Services as the Head of Database Product Marketing.
Gabe Cortes
(CFO)Prior to joining lattice in 2023, Gabe served as the CFO of Included Health for 6 years. He also spent 3 years at Workday as VP of Finance and Senior VP of Global Field Operations.
Cheryl Sanclemente
(CMCO)Cheryl joined Lattice in 2024 as a Chief Communications Officer, moving into the role of Chief Marketing and Communications Officer in 2025. Previously, she spent 8 years at Salesforce, holding various roles while there, including Senior Director of Corproate PR and VP of Public Relations.
Amy Christensen
(CRO)Prior to joining Lattice in 2025, Amy was GM of americas/Head of Revenue at Asana. She also spent nearly 10 years at LinkedIn, holding various roles including Senior Director of LinkedIn Talent Solutions.
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