Compensation Partner

ABOUT US Sierra is the leading platform for customer-facing AI agents, working with many of the world's biggest brands — including The GAP, Rocket Mortgage, SoFi, Sutter Health, and SoftBank — to transform how they serve customers and grow their businesses. We are primarily an in-person company based in San Francisco, with growing offices across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are guided by a set of values that are at the core of our actions and define our culture: Trust, Customer Obsession, Craftsmanship, Intensity, and a commitment to balancing Family along the way. These values are the foundation of our work, and we are committed to upholding them in everything we do. Our co-founders are Bret Taylor https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettaylor/ and Clay Bavor https://www.linkedin.com/in/claybavor/. Bret currently serves as Board Chair of OpenAI. Previously, he was co-CEO of Salesforce (which had acquired the company he founded, Quip) and CTO of Facebook. Bret was also one of Google's earliest product managers and co-creator of Google Maps. Before founding Sierra, Clay spent 18 years at Google, where he most recently led Google Labs. Earlier, he started and led Google’s AR/VR effort, Project Starline, and Google Lens. Before that, Clay led the product and design teams for Google Workspace. What you’ll do We are looking for a Compensation Partner to join our Compensation team. In this role, you'll play a critical part in supporting and evolving our global compensation programs through robust analysis, scalable processes, AI-native workflows, and cross-functional collaboration. You will serve as a trusted compensation subject matter expert to stakeholders and employees as we continue to grow. - Conduct detailed compensation analysis and modeling, leveraging AI and automation to support program design and decision-making. - Lead market benchmarking efforts globally, building scalable workflows for market reviews and ongoing evaluation of internal equity and external competitiveness. - Manage the execution of our compensation planning cycles, with a focus on data accuracy, analysis, and process optimization. - Partner with the Recruiting team to optimize offer processes, providing market intelligence and internal equity insights. - Support stock plan administration, partnering with Legal to manage equity grant processes and improve the accuracy and employee experience of equity operations. - Develop and maintain compensation tools, dashboards, and self-service experiences that enable Recruiting, People, and business leaders to access compensation insights. - Champion AI-native workflows by integrating AI tools and automation into compensation processes to improve operational efficiency and surface sharper insights. WHAT YOU’LL BRING - 5+ years of compensation or total rewards experience in high-growth technology environments. - Proven experience developing and maintaining compensation bands, including sales OTE and equity frameworks, and job architectures at scale. - Strong understanding of global compensation practices, with experience supporting international markets. - Hands-on experience with equity compensation, including RSUs and stock options, and comfort navigating equity administration processes and platforms such as Carta. - Highly collaborative, with a track record of building strong cross-functional partnerships, particularly with Recruiting, Legal, and People teams. - Skilled in leveraging compensation data platforms such as Pave, Radford, and Levels.FYI http://Levels.FYI, and HRIS platforms such as Workday to generate insights and inform decision-making. - An AI-native operating mindset: you instinctively look for ways to use AI, automation, and technology to improve how work gets don