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Viant Technology · 1 day ago

Sr. Manager, Compensation

Irvine, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$175K/yr - $185K/yr

4+ years exp

Viant Technology is a leader in CTV and AI-powered programmatic advertising, dedicated to driving innovation in digital marketing. The Sr. Manager, Compensation will oversee compensation cycles, data integrity, and collaborate with various departments to ensure effective compensation strategies.

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Responsibilities

Run annual merit, bonus, and equity cycles end-to-end, including data prep, audits, templates, modeling, and manager support

Build, maintain, and reconcile compensation files used for comp cycles and executive reviews

Conduct market pricing, maintain job architecture and salary bands, evaluate new job requests, and ensure consistent leveling and pricing across functions and locations

Own day-to-day accuracy of the compensation census—job codes, bands, geography, cost centers—and partner with HRIS on audits, validations, and corrections

Maintain rolling headcount and compensation forecasts; model the impact of hires, exits, promotions, and adjustments to support annual and ongoing planning

Provide cost analyses, scenario modeling, and recommendations during reforecast and planning cycles, streamlining and automating reporting where possible

Partner with Talent Acquisition to review offers, ensure internal equity, validate band placement, and support offer guidelines and negotiation guardrails

Produce compensation dashboards and analytics (compa-ratios, distribution, equity, compression, geographic differentials, risk areas) and provide ad hoc insights to HR, TA, and Finance

Ensure compliance with pay transparency laws, internal equity standards, SOX requirements, and maintain audit-ready documentation for all compensation decisions

Collaborate cross-functionally with HR Ops and TA on job changes, data accuracy, workflows, system builds, and compensation inputs for budgeting and forecasting