Manager, Compensation (Remote)

ezCater is the leading food for work technology company in the US, connecting anyone who needs food for their workplace to over 100,000 restaurants nationwide. For workplaces, ezCater provides flexible and scalable solutions for everything from recurring employee meals to one-off meetings, all backed by 24/7 customer service with real humans. ezCater also enables companies to manage their food spend in a single, customizable platform. For restaurant partners, ezCater helps them grow their business by bringing them more orders and new high-value customers.  We're backed by top investors including Insight, Iconiq, Lightspeed, GIC, SoftBank, and Quadrille.

The Compensation Manager will be a partner in the evolution of ezCater’s Compensation philosophy and programs. You will own ezCater’s execution of processes, and organizational preparedness efforts (e.g., training and communications). You will build and maintain trusting and collaborative relationships with stakeholders across the People Team and the entire company. The successful candidate will be a true Compensation subject matter expert. S/he will have outstanding data, analytics, and communication skills; deep experience with base, variable compensation, and equity programs; expertise in pay transparency initiatives, salary surveys, and market research; skilled with modeling and communicating complex information; and an advanced understanding of salary benchmarking and geo pay models.

The Compensation Manager will partner with stakeholders in the articulation of a multi-year strategy and product roadmap, as well as the execution of all compensation programs. You will be responsible for evolving, implementing, and managing multiple compensation components, including salary benchmarks (for new job postings and current roles), equity ranges, and our annual compensation review cycle. This will be an individual contributor role and will report directly to a senior leader on the People Team.

If you love the compensation profession and have a desire to work with passionate and dedicated people on a high-performing People team; take pride in delivering outsized impact; and think it would be fun to apply your skills in an interesting industry - this role could be for you!

What You'll Do: 

• Manage the design, administration, implementation, and communication of compensation programs consistent with company culture, strategy and long-term goals.
• Assess the current state of compensation strategy and operations, make recommendations and partner with colleagues to craft a roadmap for the next 12-18 months.
• Commit to maintain internal equity and external competitiveness of the company’s compensation programs through regular monitoring of business conditions, competitive practices, legal requirements, and an ongoing understanding of industry best practices.
• Partner closely with Talent Leaders and recruiters for benchmarking needs, offer guidance, internal postings, and all compensation related matters
• Partner with our People Business Partners to align job descriptions with compensation practices.
• Consult with leaders and managers on compensation reviews and make recommendations on promotion requests, salary adjustments, off-cycle changes, variable payments, and salary offers for incoming hires.
• Monitor equity burn rate and prepare data based reports for internal audiences. Assist with Compensation Committee material preparation.
• Build, design, deploy, optimize and operate compensation database technologies 
• Project management, to include requirements definition, translating requirements into measurable goals and outcomes, documenting milestones and outcomes and planning and scheduling implementation activities.
• Coordinating and developing communication plans, planning for and providing for employee development, and planning for and providing information sharing sessions with managers and team members
• Conduct training and/or create quick reference guides and other tools/resources for compensation courses and/or system enhancements
• Develop meaningful analytical tools and reports that move ezCater, its managers and its People Team toward goal achievement through innovation and continuous improvement of processes and programs
• Collaborate with HR/People/Talent peers, IT, legal, compliance, finance, benefits, payroll, and tax department staff, and external vendors and consultants
• Conduct statistical, operational, and/or financial planning and reporting
• Lead annual Pay Equity Analysis process

What You Have: 

• 6-8 years of in a related, analytical position. 4+ years experience working on compensation directly.
• Total Rewards mindset and practical knowledge of the interplay between compensation, talent acquisition, and retention.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills, and thorough knowledge of compensation plan designs and administration.
• Experience managing compensation programs for small and large organizations, preferably in both pre-public and public companies, with the ability to adapt design elements based on the law or regulations, business needs and values.
• An ability to anticipate needs and offer strategic solutions that work within our business culture.
• A Growth Mindset and understanding of how to apply those principles in everything you do.
• An agile approach to pivoting in an ever changing environment, while “keeping it light” and laughing along the way.
• An understanding of how to account for diversity, equity and inclusion when making recommendations. 
• Excellent communication skills both written and verbal, attention to detail, and the ability to prioritize multiple competing tasks with exceptional organizational, follow through, and people skills.
• Demonstrated strength in building relationships both internally and externally, with a diverse group of employees at all levels.
• Experience partnering with leaders to create organizational change, including creating a change plan and communications. 
• An eagerness and willingness to give and receive feedback, because we all love learning from each other.
• Experience with CompTool/Pequity preferred but not required.
• Experience with Carta preferred but not required.
• CCP (Certified Compensation Professional) a plus but not required.

The national cash compensation range for this role is $143,000-$184,000*

*Please note: Final offer amounts are determined by multiple factors, including prior experience, expertise and region & may vary from the amount above. This range does not represent additional compensation benefits (such as equity, 401K or medical, dental or vision insurance).

Please have fun with the Cover Letter portion of the application! It does not need to follow “traditional” cover letter guidelines - we would love for you to write 150-500 words explaining why you are interested in ezCater and the role, and highlighting anything else you think we should know!

ezCater does not sponsor applicants for work visas or legal permanent residence.

What You’ll Get from Us:

You’ll get a terrifically compelling opportunity, in an environment of radical transparency, and collaborative colleagues at every level of our organization. You’ll also get sane working hours and great flexibility around work/life balance. 

Have people in your life – of any age – who always, often, or sometimes need your help? We make room for that. Have a bad thing or a good thing happen to you? We make room for that, too.

Oh, and you’ll get all this: Market salary, stock options that you’ll help make worth a lot, the usual holidays, all-you-can-eat vacation, 401K with ezCater match, health/dental/FSA, long-term disability insurance, remote-hybrid work from our awesome Boston or Denver offices OR your home OR a mixture of both home and office (you choose!), a tremendous amount of responsibility and autonomy, wicked awesome co-workers, cupcakes (and many more goodies) when you’re in one of our offices, and knowing that you helped get this rocket ship to the moon.

ezCater is an equal opportunity employer. We embrace humans of every background, appearance, race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, and disability status. At the same time, we do not employ jerks, even brilliant ones.

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