Compensation Lead

Chainlink Labs, which builds the Chainlink oracle network, is hiring a Compensation Lead to run its broad-based compensation programs — offers, promotions, compensation cycles, market pricing, and salary structures — reporting to the Head of Total Rewards. It's a hands-on builder role that moves between analytics, program design, and day-to-day execution, partnering across People Partners, Talent Acquisition, People Ops, Legal, and Finance, and is tied to a migration of the company's compensation infrastructure onto the Pave platform. All roles at Chainlink Labs are remote and global, with an expectation of some working-hours overlap with US Eastern time.

• Own execution and evolution of broad-based compensation programs across offers, promotions, and pay cycles
• Lead global initiatives on pay equity, job architecture, and workforce planning
• Build compensation models, dashboards, and analyses that inform business and People decisions
• Lead benchmarking, survey participation, and market-pricing analysis
• Review complex offers and compensation escalations across levels, functions, and global markets
• Partner with People Tech on the migration to the Pave compensation platform
• Advise People Partners and business leaders on compensation strategy and individual decisions

• 7+ years of broad-based compensation experience in a fast-paced, global organization (10+ years for senior-level consideration)
• Proven ownership of compensation programs spanning offers, promotions, cycles, and salary structures
• Strong benchmarking and market-pricing expertise with major compensation survey data
• Advanced Google Sheets/Excel modeling and structured-data analysis skills
• Experience advising senior business leaders on compensation decisions
• Comfort operating in ambiguity while building scalable processes

Notable structural detail: Chainlink Labs does not grant traditional equity, so this Compensation Lead will administer and explain a LINK-token-based long-term incentive program instead of standard option grants — a compensation structure most comp leads haven't had to design for.