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Compensation Lead

Fluidstack· Finance
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New York, NY, San Francisco, CA, Austin, TX$200k - $235k + equityFull-timePosted 3mo ago

About the role

compensation leader partnering with leadership to design and execute compensation strategy, planning, and governance across Fluidstack’s AI/infra-focused growth.

Responsibilities

  • Partner strategically with the business: work with leadership and department heads as a trusted compensation advisor and bring market data to sharpen pay strategy.
  • Drive compensation planning: own annual and off-cycle planning end-to-end, ensuring alignment with strategy, priorities, and budget, and oversee execution.
  • Build tools that serve the business: design and maintain compensation tools, models, and resources for offer decisioning, leveling guidance, and performance cycle support.
  • Own market research and intelligence: conduct rigorous benchmarking and analyses using tools like Radford, Mercer, or Levels.fyi, translating research into practical guidance.
  • Build and refine compensation programs: design, benchmark, and continuously improve incentive structures competitive against top AI, infrastructure, and tech companies.
  • Support performance cycles: ensure compensation inputs into performance and review cycles are accurate and aligned to strategy.
  • Operate as a data-driven function: build and maintain compensation models, reporting cadences, and dashboards to surface insights like pay equity and retention risk.

Qualifications

  • 4+ years of experience in compensation or related HR function with ownership of planning cycles and program design.
  • Proven ability to drive compensation planning transitions aligned with business strategy.
  • Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders and deep knowledge of at least one competitive talent market (tech, AI, infrastructure, or similar).
  • Strong analytical skills with ability to build complex models and translate outputs into recommendations for senior leaders.
  • Track record of leveraging market data (Radford, Mercer, Levels.fyi, or similar) for benchmarking.

Skills

Required:Compensation planningMarket benchmarkingData-driven decision making

Benefits

  • Competitive total compensation package (salary + equity).
  • Retirement/pension plan in line with local norms.
  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Generous PTO policy in line with local norms.
Last updated Sep 8, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI

Fluidstack builds civilization-scale infrastructure for AI, delivering gigawatts of compute in 6 months. We're leading the deployment of Anthropic's $50B compute build out.

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