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Compensation Partner

Fireworks · San Mateo · Remote

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About Fireworks

Fireworks’ state of the art training and inference platform take you beyond the frontier, transforming open models into your specialized intelligence. Backed by Bessemer, Index and Lightspeed.

About the role

You'll build the connective tissue between what we believe about pay and how pay decisions actually get made across a fast-growing org. That means bringing rigor to how we benchmark, review, and adjust compensation — and building the systems and processes that let that rigor hold as we scale. You'll own it end to end and hands-on: running the market research, designing the review cycle, keeping the data clean, and serving as the person HRBPs and leaders turn to when a pay question needs a real answer.

What they're looking for

  • 6+ years of progressive compensation experience, ideally including time maintaining and evolving comp programs (bands, review cycles, market benchmarking) in a fast-growing company
  • Direct experience with equity compensation (options, RSUs, or similar) and comfort partnering with Finance on equity framework design
  • Strong analytical foundation: comfortable with market data, compensation modeling, and translating data into clear recommendations
  • A hands-on, do-er mindset — comfortable owning the process and the details, not just setting direction for others to execute
  • Experience partnering with HRBPs, Finance, and People Ops as equal stakeholders
  • Excellent written communication — able to explain compensation mechanics clearly to audiences ranging from executives to first-time managers
More about this role

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.

You'll build the connective tissue between what we believe about pay and how pay decisions actually get made across a fast-growing org. That means bringing rigor to how we benchmark, review, and adjust compensation — and building the systems and processes that let that rigor hold as we scale. You'll own it end to end and hands-on: running the market research, designing the review cycle, keeping the data clean, and serving as the person HRBPs and leaders turn to when a pay question needs a real answer. You'll also partner closely with Finance to shape our equity structure through a...

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