[Hiring] Sr. Compensation Analyst REMOTE USA
Position: Sr. Compensation Analyst
Date Posted: September 17, 2025
Industry: Human Resources / Cybersecurity
Employment Type: Full Time
Experience: Minimum 6 Years
Qualification: Bachelor’s degree or equivalent (relevant work experience)
Location: United States REMOTE (Continental U.S.)
Company: Optiv
Description:
Optiv Overview
Optiv is a market-leading cybersecurity solutions provider. We’re hiring a seasoned Sr. Compensation Analyst to join the Compensation team and support company-wide pay programs and strategic compensation initiatives. This role reports to the Manager, Compensation and will play a central part in designing, analyzing, and administering compensation structures across multiple regions.
How You’ll Make an Impact
- Lead and execute a broad range of compensation activities, from structure design to program administration.
- Create and maintain salary structures for the U.S., Canada, and India, including aging and slotting roles into appropriate bands.
- Manage projects such as annual merit cycles, incentive administration, market survey analysis, and M&A compensation workstreams.
- Serve as a trusted consultant to HR partners, talent acquisition, and business leaders—providing benchmarking, analytical insight, and recommendations on pay decisions.
- Model the financial consequences of pricing, packaging, or structural changes and present findings to leadership.
Key Responsibilities
- Design, maintain and audit pay structures and job alignment to ensure internal equity and market competitiveness.
- Perform job leveling, job analysis and classification, and validate FLSA classifications.
- Prepare detailed compensation analyses, dashboards, and ad-hoc reports to support decision-making.
- Administer job profile and survey data within Workday and keep compensation data current.
- Support implementation, testing and rollout of compensation changes and related communications.
- Lead or contribute to cross-functional projects and mentor junior compensation staff.
- Continuously improve compensation processes and tools, and maintain a knowledge base for the team.
Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent with a minimum of 6 years’ hands-on compensation experience.
- Demonstrated experience creating and maintaining salary structures and managing annual merit programs and M&A-related compensation tasks.
- Strong working knowledge of FLSA rules and exemption testing.
- Required: Experience with Workday. Advanced Excel skills required; Power BI, automation tools, and other analytics tools are a plus.
- Excellent analytical, financial modelling, and project management skills.
- Strong interpersonal and consulting ability — comfortable engaging with leaders across the organization.
- High attention to detail, good judgement, and ability to handle confidential information.
What You Can Expect From Optiv
- A culture that supports DEI through employee resource groups and inclusive policies.
- Work/life balance, remote work capabilities and the tools needed to be productive from home.
- Professional development resources, the opportunity to work on complex, impactful projects, and community engagement programs.
- Competitive compensation and benefits aligned to role and geography.
EEO Statement & Privacy
Optiv is an equal opportunity employer and provides a discrimination-free workplace. By applying, you acknowledge Optiv may collect and process your personal information for recruitment purposes in accordance with their applicant privacy policies.
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