Global Compensation Partner

About Turing

Based in San Francisco, California, Turing is the world's leading research accelerator for frontier AI labs and a trusted partner for global enterprises looking to deploy advanced AI systems. Turing accelerates frontier research with high-quality data, specialized talent, and training pipelines that advance thinking, reasoning, coding, multimodality, and STEM. For enterprises, Turing builds proprietary intelligence systems that integrate AI into mission-critical workflows, unlock transformative outcomes, and drive lasting competitive advantage.

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Role Overview

Join Turing as our strategic and globally-minded Global Compensation Partner to join our People team. This role is key in supporting the design, delivery, and administration of our compensation program across our employee populations in the United States, the United Kingdom, Colombia, Brazil, and India. You will collaborate closely with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Legal, and business leaders to ensure our programs are competitive, compliant, and aligned with organizational goals.

Key Responsibilities

Compensation & Equity

• Develop & maintain the job architecture framework by conducting job analysis and creating descriptions for roles and establish job classifications based on level, function, complexity to support career paths and development.
• Maintain pay grades salary and equity ranges for all job classifications, ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness through market benchmarking.
• Partner with the HRBP team and leaders to apply our compensation principles to evolving business needs, ensuring alignment with our total rewards strategy.
• Responsible for ensuring accurate compensation structure configuration and governance within the HRIS (e.g. salary bands, job family assignments, equity grants).
• Own the compensation aspects of the performance management process, merit cycle and recognition programs to recognize and incentivize strong performers and demonstration of our core values.
• Support the ongoing plan design and administration of incentive plans (annual bonus plans, commission plans), distribute incentive plan documents, and facilitate the payout processes for the incentive plans in partnership with Finance, Sales Operations and Payroll.
• Monitor and interpret country and state specific pay transparency laws, working with key stakeholders to develop and maintain policies and processes that ensure compliance.
• Use or establish performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of total rewards programs.
• Analyze data to make informed decisions and adjust strategies as needed.
• Create communication strategies and materials to educate employees about the organization's total rewards programs to create transparency and demonstrate the value and impact of offerings to enhance engagement.
• Collaborate with the talent acquisition team and people leaders on day-to-day compensation approvals and pay recommendations for new hires, promotions, transfers, etc. with full autonomy
• Review ad-hoc pay increase and promotions and provide recommendations to management regarding compensation decisions.
• Lead educational sessions for people leaders around total rewards topics, including leaves management, compensation, etc.
• Manage annual compensation structure and job review.
• Partner with the finance team on equity management processes.

Analytics, Compliance & Systems

• Leverage data to evaluate program effectiveness and alignment with company values.
• Deliver comp dashboards and executive-level insights that drive smart decisions.
• Maintain accuracy and integrity of total rewards data.
• Ensure compliance with local and international laws and regulations related to compensation (e.g. FLSA, pay transparency).
• Provide regular reporting and insights to leadership to support workforce planning and decision-making.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Support leadership teams on compensation strategies.
• Monitor global trends and proactively recommend enhancements to drive engagement and cost-effectiveness.
• Be a Strategic Partner: Collaborate with cross-functional teams such as Talent Acquisition, People Operations, Legal, and Finance teams to align on hiring and compensation goals.
• Innovative Work Culture: Work in a fast-paced, tech-forward environment with a commitment to diversity and inclusion.
• Shape the Future of Work: Help define and refine global work paradigms in a rapidly evolving space.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in Total Rewards or compensation, including global program administration, 3 years at a start up.
• Direct experience managing compensation models across the US, Brazil, and India.
• Knowledge of global mobility and immigration processes.
• Knowledge of managing global benefit programs (US, Brazil, and India).
• Strong analytical skills and ability to interpret complex data to inform business decisions.
• Experience with Pave, Carta, and Radford compensation structure.
• Excellent communication, project management, and cross-cultural collaboration skills.
• CCP, GRP, CEBS, or GPHR certification a plus.

Ideal Candidate

• Mission-Aligned: Inspired by Turing's vision to unleash the world's untapped human potential
• Proactive and Strategic: A self-starter who can navigate ambiguity and drive outcomes
• People-Centric: Demonstrates empathy and excellent communication in high-stakes scenarios.

• We are client first: We put our clients at the center of everything we do, because their success is the ultimate measure of our value.
• We work at Start-Up Speed: We move fast, stay agile and favor action because momentum is the foundation of perfection
• We are Al forward: We help our clients build the future of Al and implement it in our own roles and workflow to amplify productivity.

• Amazing work culture (Super collaborative & supportive work environment; 5 days a week)
• Awesome colleagues (Surround yourself with top talent from Meta, Google, LinkedIn etc. as well as people with deep startup experience)
• Competitive compensation
• Flexible working hours

Don't meet every single requirement? Studies have shown that women and people of color are less likely to apply to jobs unless they meet every single qualification. Turing is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, protected veteran status, or any other legally protected characteristics. At Turing we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace  and celebrate authenticity, so if you're excited about this role but your past experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyways. You may be just the right candidate for this or other roles.

For applicants from the European Union, please review Turing's GDPR notice here.