# Compensation Business Partner at Lightning AI

- Company: Lightning AI
- What the company does: From the PyTorch Lightning creators. Own your AI, don. Backed by Index.
- Company website: https://lightning.ai/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-08-18
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/lightningai/jobs/7893849003
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/lightning-ai-compensation-business-partner/

## About the role

At a company scaling this fast, compensation is a modeling problem before it's an HR problem, and we're looking for someone who treats it that way. This is a build role. You'll own compensation philosophy, incentive and equity design, and the models and tools the business actually runs on: market research turned into clear recommendations, offer and leveling frameworks that People and Finance reach for, and fast, defensible answers in the moments that matter: performance cycles, offer decisions, retention calls.

## What they're looking for

- 3+ years in compensation, strategic finance, FP&A, analytics, or a comparably quantitative role, with real ownership of comp planning and the models behind it
- Proven ability to drive compensation planning in step with business and People strategy, come ready to walk through specifics
- Strong modeling and analytical skills: you build and maintain complex comp and equity models and translate the output into clear recommendations for senior leaders
- A track record using market data (Radford, Pave, OpenComp, Levels.fyi, Mercer, or similar) to benchmark and calibrate pay
- Experience partnering with cross-functional stakeholders, with deep knowledge of at least one competitive talent market (AI, infrastructure, tech, or similar)

Tags: People & Operations