The opportunity
OpenAI’s People team supports a complex, rapidly growing organization of researchers, engineers, and business teams. The Compensation function ensures accuracy, scalability, and operational excellence across all compensation tools, systems, and data flows.
What you'll do
Own configuration and day-to-day operations of compensation tools and HRIS compensation modules.
Manage annual and off-cycle compensation processes, ensuring data integrity,: testing, quality assurance, and on-time execution.
Build and maintain compensation datasets, dashboards, audits, and data flows across systems.
Lead compensation vendor relationships, including implementation, troubleshooting, and data submissions.
Diagnose and resolve system issues, identify root causes, and drive process and tooling improvements.
Partner with People Systems and Engineering to enhance architecture, workflows, and automation.
What they're looking for
- Ensure high data accuracy across compensation systems and proactively identify gaps, risks, or anomalies.
- Translate technical or complex compensation system issues into clear guidance for stakeholders.
- Have 5+ years of experience in compensation operations, HR: operations/systems, or total rewards tooling in high-growth or technology environments.
- Have strong HRIS configuration experience, especially with compensation: planning modules; Workday and Pave experience is preferred.
