Priority · 18 hours ago
Compensation Manager
Alpharetta, GA, US
Full-time
Hybrid
Senior Level
$123K/yr - $151K/yr
5+ years expPriority Technology Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology company on a mission to deliver personalized financial solutions. The Compensation Manager will manage and optimize compensation programs across the US and Canada, ensuring compliance and operational excellence while enhancing the employee compensation experience.
Financial ServicesPaymentsProfessional Services
Responsibilities
Owns and manages the tools and systems that serve as the source of truth for compensation data, job grading, salary bands, band assignment, and job architecture. Maintains configuration, governance, workflows, access controls, documentation, and adoption standards across US and CAN, and oversees process and tooling consistency for India
Owns salary band creation, updates, market benchmarking, governance, and role-to-band mapping for US and Canada. Oversees India compensation band processes and ensures structured, compliant, audit-ready role-to-band assignment guidance is maintained
Owns the creation and maintenance of job architecture structure, job families, levels, leveling criteria, job catalog governance, and the tools that maintain them. Ensures roles are accurately mapped to levels and compensation bands. Partners with Organization Effectiveness on business alignment, expectation setting, and operational consistency
Owns and oversees operational execution of bonus cycles, equity administration, pay governance, approvals, and documentation for US and Canada. Supports Finance, ELT, and People Operations with audit-ready records, cycle tracking, and payout governance
Owns market benchmarking processes for US and Canada, maintaining internal equity and external competitiveness. Produces benchmark summaries, salary band updates, market positioning guidance, and pay fairness analysis for stakeholders
Owns governance for global compensation tooling standards, with a focus on enabling scalable, normalized compensation processes. Ensures tools are responsibly managed, documented, and aligned to published frameworks
Ensures compliance with federal and state exemption classification laws
Ensures compliance with pay transparency laws
Qualification
Required
5+ years of compensation or Total Rewards operations experience, with deep expertise in the US compensation market and working knowledge of Canadian compensation administration preferred
Experience owning compensation systems and tooling governance, including configuration, documentation, access controls, and process standardization
Proven experience designing, maintaining, and governing salary bands and role-to-band mapping
Hands-on experience of a job architecture framework, including job families, levels, leveling criteria, and job catalog governance, managed through tools or HRIS configuration
Experience running compensation audits, approvals, and documentation that are structured, repeatable, and audit-ready
Demonstrated ability to mentor and enable People teams in scaling compensation processes (particularly in India), without owning individual regional pay outcomes
Strong knowledge of compensation compliance requirements in the US and Canada, including documentation standard and regulatory risk mitigation
Experience managing sensitive data with discretion and operational rigor
Owns and operates compensation foundations immediately, including salary bands, leveling, job architecture, and compensation data tooling
Grows strategic influence over time as compensation programs and global processes mature
Benefits
Bonus programs
401(k) match
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
HSA and FSA options
Financial wellness resources and employee discount programs
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Mental health support for employees and dependents through Lyra Health
Family planning and women’s health benefits through Carrot
Gym membership reimbursement and virtual wellness programs (including yoga)
3 weeks PTO to start, with unlimited PTO after year one
Education expense reimbursement
Leadership development programs
Certified Payments Professional (CPP) certification support
Company
Priority
Priority is for leaders who want to challenge tradition and drive impact, no matter their title or industry.
1001-5000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Thomas Priore
Executive Chairman & Chief Executive Officer
Tim O'Leary
Chief Financial Officer
Recent News
2025-12-08
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