Manager, Compensation

Job description

Navan is a newly public company managing global compensation for 4k employees. You’ll be joining a lean, high-impact team at an inflection point, building infrastructure and processes and owning work that directly shapes how we attract, retain and pay our people.

What you'll do:

• Job architecture and salary structures. Design, maintain, and administer salary structures and job architecture that scale with headcount growth across engineering, sales, and corporate functions.
• Lead market pricing and survey management. Translate our compensation survey data into clear pay positioning recommendations for a fast-moving tech talent market. Own the annual benchmarking cycle from data submission through final analysis.
• People Success (PSBP) partner and advocate. Serve as the embedded comp expert for People Partners across client groups, advising on complex pay decisions and building the shared fluency that reduces one-off comp questions over time.
• Job Offer and Talent Acquisition partnership. Partner closely with Talent on job offer construction across high-volume, ensuring alignment to pay bands and internal equity.
• Compensation planning cycles. Own the operational execution of merit, promotion, and equity refresh cycles, including tooling, manager communication, and analysis.
• Workday compensation optimisation. Support the implementation, configuration, and ongoing optimisation of the Workday Compensation module, ensuring effective system utilisation and data integrity.
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