Associate Principal Compensation Analyst, Tekion
$133-185k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
End-to-end cloud native automotive platform
Open for applications
End-to-end cloud native automotive platform
1001+ employees
Open for applications
$133-185k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
1001+ employees
Company mission
To build the world's best business applications in the cloud.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Finance, Economics, Business, or related field; Master’s preferred
- Experience with compensation within a technology or software development company is required
- 12+ years of experience in compensation analysis, consulting, or total rewards design
- Advanced proficiency in Excel, data modeling, and analytics; experience with Workday, Radford, or other survey platforms required
- Strong understanding of job architecture frameworks, market pricing, and global pay regulations
- Excellent analytical, presentation, and storytelling skills with the ability to influence senior stakeholders
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
- CCP or similar professional certification preferred
- Customer First: Puts customer needs and trust at the center of all decisions and team strategies
- Drive for Results: Sets and achieves ambitious goals, removes roadblocks, and maintains accountability and a high-performance team culture
- Outpace Possibilities: Champions new ideas, encourages experimentation, and supports team learning from every outcome
- One Team: Builds strong, collaborative teams, fosters open communication, and creates a sense of belonging
- Technical/Business Acumen: Applies strategic, technical, and market insights to guide team and business outcomes effectively
- Interpersonal/Leadership Skills: Coaches, gives feedback, addresses performance issues, and supports ongoing growth for all members. Also, navigates culture and structure, manages conflict, and models agility and resilience
- Problem Solving/Strategic Thinking: Anticipates trends, makes sound decisions under ambiguity, and aligns teams to long-term vision
What the job involves
- The Associate Principal Compensation Analyst serves as a senior individual contributor and subject-matter expert within the Compensation team
- This role partners closely with People Partners, Talent, and Finance to design, evaluate, and administer Tekion’s global compensation programs
- The analyst provides strategic guidance on market competitiveness, pay equity, incentive design, and compensation governance, ensuring alignment with Tekion’s total rewards philosophy and business strategy
- Lead complex analyses to evaluate market competitiveness of base, variable, and equity compensation programs
- Partner with People Business Partners and business leaders to develop and model compensation proposals for new and existing roles
- Manage annual and ad hoc compensation cycle analytics, including merit, promotion, and bonus reviews
- Conduct market benchmarking and participate in compensation surveys to maintain accurate, current market data
- Develop compensation models, dashboards, and forecasting tools to support people and finance decision-making
- Advise leadership on compensation frameworks for emerging job families, new geographies, and organizational growth initiatives
- Ensure compliance with internal governance standards, pay transparency laws, and global reporting requirements
- Serve as a compensation consultant to senior People partners, providing interpretation and recommendations for complex pay scenarios
- Lead cross-functional projects related to job architecture, levelling, and total rewards enablement
- Job Complexity: Performs highly complex analyses requiring deep technical expertise and strong business judgment. Solves problems that are broad in scope and often require a cross-functional approach
- Required Supervision: Operates independently with minimal direction; work is reviewed primarily for strategic alignment and policy consistency
- Expertise: Recognized internal expert in compensation analytics, benchmarking, and program design; influences decisions through data-driven insights and thought leadership
Our take
Car dealerships suffer from an inefficiency problem. The paperwork and administration required to complete a sale requires dealers to manage a disjointed set of various software applications. Tekion is offering an enticing remedy - a cloud-based automotive retail system that integrates the various software applications in a single infrastructure.
Competition has been strong, with rivals CDK Global and Reynolds & Reynolds offering a competitive raft of features, and benefiting from strong prior relationships with dealerships. Tekion, however, has nevertheless secured customers for the software in 28 states - likely in part due to the efficiency of partnering with a single growing service as opposed to a disparate spread.
This momentum shows no signs of slowing either, as Tekion has attracted attention from major players like CMC, Chrysler, and Chevrolet. By streamlining dealership operations into a single platform, the company is proving that even in a crowded market, innovation and simplicity can win over both dealers and industry partners.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
25% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2024
$200m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Oct 2021
$250m
SERIES D
Total funding: $635.1m
Company benefits
- Silicon Valley Startup Environment
- Stock Options
- Focus on Work/Life Balance
- Recognition Culture
- Health and Wellness
- Unparalleled Career Development
Company HQ
Pleasanton, CA
Leadership
Jay Vijayan
(Co-Founder & CEO)They started their career at Oracle, where they spent over 7 years in Management before spending 4 at VMware. They then worked at Tesla for 4 years, leaving their position as CIO to found Tekion in February 2016.
Guru Sankararaman
(Co-Founder & COO)After working as a Chief Architect at Cisco, they joined Tesla for 4 years. Initially they served as Director of Information Technology and then later became VP of Information Technology. Left this role to co-found Tekion in 2016.
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