Compensation Lead, Smarsh
£80-95k
+ Annual bonus + tech-forward equity program
3 days a week in office
Cloud-based archiving and compliance solutions
Be an early applicant
Cloud-based archiving and compliance solutions
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
£80-95k
+ Annual bonus + tech-forward equity program
3 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable customers to take advantage of the latest communication and collaboration tools, while staying ahead of compliance risk.
Role
Who you are
- A Tech-Savvy Analyst: You’ve spent 5+ years in the comp world, ideally in high-growth tech
- AI Enthusiast: You are proactive about using AI (like Gemini, ChatGPT, or specialized data tools) to find efficiencies, analyze huge datasets, and streamline repetitive tasks
- A Radford Pro: You could submit a Radford survey in your sleep (but we’d prefer you do it awake)
- An Excel Wizard: You think in XLOOKUPs, Index/Match, and Pivot Tables. If a dataset is messy, you find it "professionally satisfying" to clean it
- A Clear Communicator: You can explain "comp logic" to a non-comp person without making their head spin
- Comfortable in the "Grey": We’re growing, which means things change. You thrive in ambiguity and love the challenge of building the plane while it’s in the air
What the job involves
- We aren't just another startup; we are the backbone of the financial world, counting the majority of the world’s largest banks as our customers. We have the stability of an industry leader, but we’re currently in hyper-growth mode with a mission to double our business in the next few years. We’re doing this by infusing our platform with next-gen AI intelligence to revolutionize data management
- This is your chance to get your foot in the door at a scaling tech firm where the stability is high, but the growth ceiling is nonexistent. In this role, you will report directly to our Head of Global Compensation, ensuring your work has a straight line to our global strategy and leadership
- AI-Powered Productivity: We don’t just want you using AI to write better emails. We want a lead who uses AI to challenge the status quo. You’ll leverage AI tools to identify process improvements, automate tedious data cleaning, and find productivity gains that turn a week-long audit into a one-hour win
- The Growth Architect: As we double our business, you’ll ensure our job architecture and pay scales are robust enough to handle a massive global expansion
- The Radford Whisperer: You’ll own the Radford cycle end-to-end. You aren't just submitting numbers; you’re the architect of our market positioning
- Market Trendsetter: Perform deep-dive benchmarking to ensure we’re winning the talent war for the best AI, engineering , and GTM minds in the industry
- Cycle Conductor: Lead the annual merit, bonus, and equity dance, partnering with Finance to ensure our budget supports our aggressive growth goals
- Regional Compensation Expertise in EMEA
- Best of Both Worlds: Enjoy the thrill and equity upside of a tech growth story with the rock-solid security of a company the global banking system relies on
- Innovate the Function: This is your playground to use technology and AI to drive massive productivity gains and move the needle for the entire HR organization
Salary benchmarks
Our take
The emergence of new digital communication technologies provides businesses with a great opportunity for growth. But regulated businesses need to ensure they carry out communications monitoring, archiving, and compliance to stay on the right side of regulators. This can be difficult to do with new tech - to the extent that some businesses are hesitant to adopt it at all.
Of course, there’s a substantial appetite for ways to get around this obstacle and therefore reap the business benefits of modern comms. Smarsh provides just that, with its suite of archive, storage, and monitoring tools. In the two decades since its founding, the platform has netted over 6,500 clients including top worldwide banks, brokerage firms, insurers, registered investment advisors, and state and local government agencies in the US.
This puts Smarsh in a formidable position going forward. The issue the company addresses is only getting more acute as the volume of communications increases, more tech is brought to market, and the hybrid work model pushes more communications online. Smarsh’s extensive, top-tier global reach will help it field this growing market opportunity.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-9% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2015
$28m
LATE VC
Sep 2007
$15.6m
LATE VC
Total funding: $43.6m
Company benefits
- Healthcare insurance: We provide medical, dental and vision insurance and a flexible spending account that allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses
- Personal time off: A healthy work-life balance is critical to your success at the office. Smarsh offers a "take-what-you-need" time off policy as well as flexible work arrangements
- Recognition: We're big on kudos for a job well done. Our employee recognition program enables co-workers to nominate their peers who best embody our core values for recognition
- Life and disability insurance: Fully paid life and disability insurance coverage is provided from the day you start your job
- Wellness program: You're happier when you're healthier. So we reimburse a portion of employees' monthly health club expenses
- Retirement savings: We match a percentage of your retirement savings contributions. Smarsh employer match invests immediately, so it's yours from day one
- Sabbatical: The Smarsh sabbatical program provides a time to recharge, study or simply a time to do something you are passionate about away from the workplace. Employees are eligible after six years of service
- Giving back: Through our community partnership program, Full Circle, employees make a positive difference and receive paid time off for Full Circle activities so they can support the organizations that matter most to them
- Employee assistance program: We offer free and confidential assessments, short-term counseling, referrals and follow-up services to employees for personal or work-related issues to support their mental and emotional well-being
- Cellphones: To support our mobile and geographically dispersed workforce, we offer corporate cellular plan discounts with both AT&T and T-Mobile
- Getting here and home: Biking and taking public transit to work is not only cool but a smart and green thing to do. Smarsh proudly reimburses for monthly transit costs and biking expenses
- Parental leave: We want to support our colleagues who are starting a family. Smarsh offers paid leave to help you welcome your new bundle(s) of joy into the world
Company HQ
Portland Downtown, Portland, OR
Leadership
Stephen Marsh
(Founder & Chairman)Previously worked on capital market systems at Fidelity Investments, and then moved to a Senior Product Manager role at CCBN. They are also a board member at The Wild, Asset Compliance Inc., and ComplySci.
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