Compensation Business Analyst
Job Type: W2 Contract
Contract Duration: 7 months, possible extension
Location: Menlo Park, California 94025
Work Setting: 100% Onsite
Pay Rate: $51.00 – $54.75/hr.
Position Overview
Seeking a Compensation Business Analyst to support global hiring efforts through the delivery of offers and management of data related to new hire compensation. This role will partner closely with the Compensation organization to execute high-impact compensation initiatives and competitive new hire compensation strategy, while using AI as a core collaborator to drive efficiency and quality.
Role Responsibilities
- Collaborate with partners and stakeholders on project delivery while managing multiple work streams and competing priorities.
- Break down complex problems into AI-solvable components and iterate with AI to generate and refine solutions.
- Advise cross-functional partners on complex matters while developing knowledge and skills around emerging AI technologies.
- Use AI to unblock work beyond traditional role boundaries, innovate in rapidly evolving or unclear situations, and share learnings to help scale AI adoption and skill development.
- Lead with internal and market insights to drive compensation solutions and deliver key outcomes through action-oriented, AI-integrated workflows.
- Develop compensation models and conduct statistical analysis using multiple AI tools and agents.
- Apply prompt engineering skills while understanding AI tool limitations.
- Demonstrate a thorough understanding of data sources and collection methods and clearly communicate how AI contributed to results.
- Work with large amounts of data and develop mechanisms to streamline processes and balance risks.
- Redesign workflows to fully leverage AI functionality.
- Use AI responsibly and ethically to protect people, data, and IP through policy-compliant practices and validation of outputs.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, HR, Business, or a similarly related discipline and 2 years of experience in consulting, finance, compensation, recruiting, or a similarly applicable field.
OR
- Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, HR, Business, or a similarly related discipline and 0–1 years of experience in consulting, finance, compensation, recruiting, or a similarly applicable field.
AND
- Experience with Excel, including building analyses and models.
- Project management experience, including driving projects forward through analytics.
- Foundational knowledge of AI tools and experience integrating them into work processes, including:
- Prompt engineering
- Workflow automation
- Output validation
- Experience experimenting with AI through professional work or independently.
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential work with discretion and sound judgment.
Preferred Qualifications
- Advanced technical skills, including SQL and statistical analysis tools.
- Demonstrated ability to integrate AI tools to optimize or redesign workflows and drive measurable impact, such as efficiency gains or quality improvements.
- Experience adhering to and implementing responsible and ethical AI practices, including risk assessment, bias mitigation, and quality and accuracy reviews.
- Demonstrated ongoing AI skill development, including prompt/context engineering and agent orchestration, and staying current with emerging AI technologies.
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