About this role
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 f