# Compensation Programs Lead at Rippling

- Company: Rippling
- What the company does: About Rippling Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, Lightspeed and Sequoia.
- Company website: https://rippling.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: San Francisco, CA
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $204K to $260K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-06-05
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://ats.rippling.com/rippling/jobs/63fb5029-e926-42cd-a9f4-225037c1293b
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/rippling-compensation-programs-lead/

## About the role

We are looking for a Compensation Programs Lead to own and drive our core compensation programs end-to-end. This is a high-impact individual contributor (Super IC) role at the intersection of strategy and execution — you will design and operate our merit and incentive cycles, lead compensation readiness across cross functional teams, and own the systems and tooling that power our planning processes.

## What they're looking for

- 8+ years of compensation experience, including meaningful time in a business-facing or cross-functional role at a high-growth technology company
- Proven track record owning complex, multi-stakeholder compensation cycles end-to-end — on time, with high accuracy, and ownership
- Experience designing or supporting variable comp, equity compensation
- Hands-on experience configuring and managing compensation planning cycles through a full cycle using any software
- Substantial command of compensation fundamentals: job matching, market pricing, leveling, job architecture, equity mechanics (private and public), and cyclical programs
- Clear, direct communicator — able to translate compensation mechanics into language that managers, employees, and senior leaders can actually use

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