Senior Compensation Manager, OpenGov
$160-180k
OTE
Cloud ERP software for the public sector
Be an early applicant
Cloud ERP software for the public sector
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$160-180k
OTE
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To power more effective and accountable government.
Role
Who you are
- 10+ years of experience in compensation, consulting, or a related field in a high-growth, fast-paced environment
- Experience building compensation programs, managing projects, and scaling processes with company growth
- Experience with equity program design and administration, including grant guidelines, vesting structures, and equity budget modeling preferred
- Advanced proficiency with Workday Advanced Compensation strongly preferred
- Strong analytical and Excel/Google Sheets skills required to analyze data and build meaningful, understandable models and reports; ability to see beyond the numbers to drive sound decision-making
- Demonstrated, hands-on experience building AI-powered tools or workflows in a compensation/HR context (e.g., automating benchmarking, modeling, or reporting tasks)
- Knowledge of federal, state, and local laws impacting people operations and compensation
- Experience working with base pay and incentive plans required
- Experience with global compensation strongly preferred
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience required; a strong background in data/quantitative analysis such as Finance, Statistics, or Economics preferred
- Ability to present and distill complex topics in a concise and meaningful manner to diverse stakeholders
- Strong consultative and advisory skills, with a track record of building trusted partnerships with cross-functional stakeholders
- Must be able to independently problem-solve and work under pressure in a deadline-driven, rapidly changing organization
- Ability to exercise judgment and discretion in maintaining confidential and sensitive information
- Ability to gain alignment and represent a common point of view across multiple stakeholders
What the job involves
- As the Senior Compensation Manager, you will lead the evolution and scale of OpenGov's compensation programs in alignment with our business objectives, combining hands-on program ownership with strategic analytics and AI-enabled operations
- You'll serve as a trusted compensation advisor to HRBPs, People Managers, Talent Acquisition, and cross functional partners across the business — helping them navigate compensation decisions with clarity and confidence
- You'll own the full compensation toolkit — program design, cycle execution, equity planning, and manager enablement — while building the data-driven infrastructure and automated workflows that let compensation scale ahead of the business, not behind it
- This is a player-coach role: you'll do the work yourself building models, running benchmarks, owning cycles, while also setting direction and raising the bar for other professionals on the team
- Administer and evolve OpenGov's compensation programs - comp cycles, promotions, and variable pay - serving as project lead across each program
- Maintain the integrity of compensation data and systems, including internal job architecture, career paths, salary scales, and comp ranges aligned with our compensation philosophy
- Serve as a strategic advisor to HRBPs, People Managers, and FP&A, providing business-relevant compensation guidance and recommendations for new and existing employees to ensure internal equity, external competitiveness, and budget alignment
- Build trusted, consultative relationships with cross-functional partners, helping them apply compensation philosophy confidently to real business decisions
- Own equity planning and administration, including new-hire and refresh grant guidelines, vesting structures, and equity budget modeling
- Partner with Finance and Legal on equity program design, plan changes, and compliance requirements
- Advise HRBPs and business leaders on equity-related questions for offers, promotions, and retention scenarios
- Design and build compensation metrics, reports, and tools that inform program decisions and forecast/analyze compensation outcomes
- Lead competitive intelligence on market trends and talent movement, particularly for premium and fast-moving job families (e.g., AI/ML, engineering, data science)
- Analyze compensation data to surface trends, outliers, and risk areas, translating findings into clear, actionable recommendations for HR and business leaders
- Create and deploy compensation content and training for HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, Managers, and Employees, spanning foundational and complex compensation topics
- Promote understanding of OpenGov's compensation philosophy and practices across the organization, building relationships that result in trusted partnership
- Design and build AI-powered workflows and tools that automate recurring compensation work — benchmarking, offer modeling, job description generation, and comp cycle reporting — operationalizing and automating so compensation scales with our growth
- Integrate AI tools directly into daily compensation work to increase speed and consistency of deliverables, including market analysis, manager communications, and data summarization
- Evaluate where AI can responsibly replace manual steps, with clear judgment on where human review must stay in the loop, and bring recommendations forward proactively to the broader People Team
Our take
As the world digitises, governments must innovate their operations to deliver the highest standard of service. OpenGov offers cloud software products to help governments manage performance, improve budgeting, and visualise operational intelligence, as well as providing comprehensive open data.
OpenGov is the leader in local government software. Its cloud-based products, which aided a number of public agencies through the pandemic, include citizen services, procurement, budgeting and planning capabilities - made comprehensive by a series of strategic acquisitions. The company's coherent and integrated software solution significantly reduces the stress on government systems, allowing them to work smarter and better for their citizens.
OpenGov serves over 1,600 governments across the US and continues to secure new clients. It has also made several partnerships towards improving its range of services, which will enable it to remain a powerful tool for governments wishing to digitally transform.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
10% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 8 rounds)
Feb 2022
$50m
LATE VC
Oct 2021
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $228m
Company benefits
- Work from anywhere
- Unlimited vacation
- Mission-driven colleagues
- World-class healthcare
- Professional development
Company HQ
China Basin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Zachary Bookman
(Co-Founder & Chairman)Prior to co-founding OpenGov, was a Principal for Formation 8 and a Special Advisor with ISAF in Afghanistan, focusing on rule of law and governance.
Salary benchmarks
We don't have enough data yet to provide salary benchmarks for this role.
Submit your salary to help other candidates with crowdsourced salary estimates.
Share this job
View 21 more jobs at OpenGov