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Senior Compensation Manager

Waabi· People & Places – Human Resources
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Hybrid (Remote US & Canada)$175k - $260kFull-timePosted 1w ago

About the role

Waabi is hiring a Senior Compensation Manager to design and manage the company’s compensation strategy across multiple locations, anchor it to business growth, lead the annual cycle, benchmarking, forecasting, enablement, and compliance while collaborating with executives and Finance.

Responsibilities

  • Anchor compensation in the business trajectory. Build understanding of Waabi's growth path and use it to guide compensation decisions.
  • Design the compensation structure of the future and the plan to get there. Define base, equity, and variable pay; set long-term philosophy, ranges, and grant guidelines; roadmap evolution.
  • Own the end-to-end annual compensation cycle, including administering the compensation tool and planning outcomes with managers and senior leaders.
  • Lead market benchmarking for all roles across Waabi's locations; perform job matching, survey submissions, and update cash and equity ranges.
  • Build bottoms-up compensation forecasts with Finance; model spend and equity usage against the business plan; lead analysis projects.
  • Lead compensation enablement and education across the organization; train managers, help employees understand total compensation, equip Recruiting to structure offers, craft communications.
  • Communicate and advise across company leadership; translate complex compensation topics into recommendations; prepare materials for board review.
  • Ensure pay equity and compliance through regular reviews and adherence to pay transparency and reporting requirements in the U.S. and Canada.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Business, Human Resources, or related field.
  • 7+ years of compensation experience, ideally in high-growth technology companies, including owning annual cycles and multi-location benchmarking.
  • Experience designing compensation philosophy, structures and programs (salary, variable and equity).
  • Extensive analytical and modeling skills (including forecasting) and expertise in benchmarking and survey methodology (Radford, Carta, Pave, etc).
  • Executive presence with clear, confident communication to employees, managers, and senior executives.
  • Strong collaboration and communication skills; sound judgment and discretion with sensitive information.
  • Enthusiasm for applying AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude) to improve workflows.
  • Open-minded, collaborative team player with willingness to help others.
  • Passion for self-driving technologies and solving hard problems.

Skills

Required:Compensation design and philosophyForecasting and modelingExecutive communication
Nice to have:AI tool usage for workflows

Benefits

  • Competitive compensation and equity awards.
  • Health and Wellness benefits including Medical, Dental and Vision (full-time).
  • Unlimited Vacation.
  • Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
  • Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
  • Regular team building activities and social events on-site, off-site & virtual.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.

About Waabi

pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks.

Waabi is pioneering Physical AI, starting with autonomous trucks. We developed a next-generation approach leveraging an end-to-end interpretable and verifiable AI model that’s powered by the industry's most realistic neural simulator. This dramatically reduces the development time and resources needed to bring self-driving vehicles to public roads — safely and at scale.

Autonomous trucksPhysical AIneural simulatorAI modelself-driving vehicles
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