Compensation Lead

TLDR

Lead compensation strategies at a high-growth tech firm, leveraging AI to drive productivity and ensuring robust job architecture for global expansion.

Who are we? Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines.  Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008. Summary   We are looking for a highly skilled Java Developer to join our R&D Server team. In this role, you will design and develop both new and existing product capabilities, working across a diverse set of technologies and architectures. This position also provides the opportunity to develop and support services within our federal enclave environment, alongside our cloud based workloads. Developing and supporting features within our federal enclave environment, requiring careful attention to compliance, security, and constrained deployment workflows. Building, enhancing, and maintaining services in our AWS-based production environment, leveraging modern cloud-native tooling and infrastructure. The ideal candidate is someone who loves to self-learn, shares expertise with peers, and thrives in an Agile, collaborative, and warm team environment.   Our tech stack includes Redis, Oracle, PSQL, Kafka, Spring, Microservices, Docker, Kubernetes, AWS, Jenkins, Grafana, ELK, Maven, and GitHub.   What You’ll Be Doing (The "Fun" Version of Comp)
  • 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.
  • Why You’ll Love It Here
  • East Coast Powerhouse: Finally, a high-growth tech company where the center of gravity including the CEO and CHRO is on your side of the country.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • The Perks
    •    Work with a world-class team that actually understands the strategic value of compensation.
    •    Competitive salary and annual bonus, tech-forward equity programs, and a seat at the table during a historic growth phase.
    •    The chance to say, "I was there when we took the industry leader and doubled it."
     
    Ready to lead the way? Let’s talk.
    About our culture

    Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.

    Benefits

    Equity upside and job stability

    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.

    Smarsh provides solutions that enable businesses to manage risk and harness insights from their digital communications. With a focus on regulated industries, we support over 6,500 organizations in monitoring compliance and identifying potential legal risks across more than 80 channels.

    View all jobs
    Salary
    $135,000 – $155,000 per year
    Report this job
    Apply for this job