Associate Principal Compensation Analyst, Tekion
$133-185k
+ Stock Options
More information about location
End-to-end, AI-native platform for automotive retail
Job no longer available
End-to-end, AI-native platform for automotive retail
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$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. Its recent release of AI agents and an AI interface also shows it is moving with the times.
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
(CEO & Co-Founder)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
(COO & Co-Founder)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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