Compensation Analyst

About the Team

OpenAI’s People team aims to hire, engage, and retain world-class talent who will ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of humanity. The HR team supports a complex, growing employee group of scientists, engineers, and business professionals. The team contains expertise across employee experience, business partnership, operations, compensation, benefits, DEI, L&D, and more.

About the Role

We’re looking for our first Compensation Analyst. This role will partner closely with our Compensation team and help drive the data, modeling and insights that will impact our salary, equity and Total Rewards programs. You’ll help OpenAI achieve its mission by creating compensation structures and models that allow us to continue to attract and retain the world’s best talent.

The ideal candidate possesses robust data analytics and communication skills, exhibits a strong bias for execution, and demonstrates an ownership mindset. They should be passionate about solving complex problems and thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Your Responsibilities:

• Manage the analysis and visualization of internal and external compensation data and identify key trends to inform strategic decisions.

• Develop and deploy data models to assess the effectiveness of compensation strategies and forecast future trends. Ability to leverage diverse data sources and deliver accurate findings in quick turnarounds.

• Collaborate with the People Systems team to enhance compensation tools, ensuring high accuracy and efficiency in data handling. Ability to scale compensation tools in line with company’s growth.

• Partner with internal stakeholders to address compensation issues, demonstrating strong teamwork and execution skills.

• Prepare and deliver analytical reports on compensation matters to senior management and other key stakeholders. Work closely with HR, Finance, Recruiting, and Legal departments to foster a collaborative approach to compensation management.

We’re Seeking:

• 5+ years of experience in compensation (tech/high-growth environments preferred), including equity.

• Proficiency in Excel; experience with BI tools (Tableau/Looker) and HRIS (Workday); SQL/Python is a plus.

• Strong problem-solving and project management skills.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills; highly collaborative and a strong team player.

• Pragmatic, quick-thinking, and action-oriented.

• Meticulous attention to detail and a commitment to excellence.

• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Workplace & Location

This role is based in our San Francisco office. We offer relocation support to new employees, and we use a hybrid work model: three days in the office per week with optional work from home on Thursdays and Fridays.

While we aren't actively considering remote applications, we do encourage you to apply anyways for future remote opportunities. Please indicate your preferred working locations in your application.

Our open-plan offices have height-adjustable desks, conference rooms, phone booths, well-stocked kitchens full of snacks and drinks, three in-house prepared meals daily, a private outdoor space for working in the sun or socializing, nap rooms, private bike storage, and more.

About OpenAI

OpenAI is an AI research and deployment company dedicated to ensuring that general-purpose artificial intelligence benefits all of humanity. We push the boundaries of the capabilities of AI systems and seek to safely deploy them to the world through our products. AI is an extremely powerful tool that must be created with safety and human needs at its core, and to achieve our mission, we must encompass and value the many different perspectives, voices, and experiences that form the full spectrum of humanity. 

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