Chess.com
Global Compensation Analyst
🇺🇸 Remote - US
🕑 Full-Time
💰 TBD
💻 Human Resources
🗓️ July 15th, 2025
Edtech.com's Summary
- Develop and maintain job architecture and benchmark new roles globally.
- Collect, organize, and interpret salary, bonus, and benefits data across different markets.
- Participate in external compensation surveys and advise on pay raises and bonuses.
- Serve as primary contact for compensation questions from various internal teams.
- Research global compensation trends and communicate compensation philosophy.
- Ensure compliance with compensation laws and respond to audits.
- Analyze and support benefits programs such as health insurance and retirement plans.
- Experience required: minimum 3 years in global compensation or total rewards roles, preferably in software or gaming startups.
- Technical skills: proficiency with Google Workspace, Slack, Notion; experience with Rippling HRIS is highly preferred.
- Strong data analysis skills and ability to present complex compensation data clearly.
Global Compensation Analyst Full Description
- Play a key role in the development and maintenance of our job architecture, benchmarking new roles or job families.
- Collect, organize, and interpret data related to salaries, bonuses, and benefits from different markets globally.
- Participate in external compensation surveys with partnered vendors.
- Support our compensation review cycles, advising on the fair application and correct calculation of raises and/or bonuses.
- Act as a primary point of contact for compensation-related inquiries from Talent Acquisition, People Business Partners, and leaders, keeping all relevant parties consulted and informed.
- Research global compensation, collecting and analyzing internal and external data to track compensation trends.
- Drive the development of comp-related communications and educational materials, helping to communicate our global compensation philosophy and evolve our organizational understanding.
- Ensure compliance with global compensation laws and standards, coordinating and responding to any audit or information requests.
- Support our People Ops team in analyzing and improving our health insurance, retirement plans, time off policies, and other perks as needed.
- Create easy-to-understand reports and presentations that show our leaders how our total rewards programs are performing.
- Perform other duties as assigned. We are a lean team, and we flex to keep the People team and the broader Chess.com ecosystem moving forward.
Preferred Skills
- Demonstrated experience and expertise in a global compensation or total rewards role, preferably with software or gaming start-ups, with at least 3 years administering a compensation program.
- Global understanding of compensation fundamentals: job matching, cost of labour, job architecture, and evolving pay transparency processes and requirements.
- Experience working with large amounts of data, interpreting compensation trends, and building intelligence through reporting and external survey data sources, such as Pave or Radford.
- Excellent general tech skills, and experience with cloud-based tools including Google Workspace, Slack, Notion.
- Experience working with Rippling (HRIS) highly preferred.
- Organized, detail-oriented, and a strong communicator; able to communicate complex information clearly and concisely to a variety of audiences.
About the Opportunity
- This is a full-time opportunity
- We are 100% remote (work from anywhere!)
- This role is open to candidates who can work in US/CA
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