Job title: Compensation Manager
Reports to: Chief People Officer
Department: Human Resources
Location: Alpharetta, GA (Remote for non-GA Residents)
Grade: 19
About Priority:
Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. is a leading financial technology company on a mission to deliver a personalized, easy-to-adopt financial toolset that accelerates cash flow and optimizes working capital for businesses. Our vision is to eliminate the barriers to unlocking revenue - empowering businesses to grow faster and operate smarter.
We achieve this through the Priority Commerce Engine, an innovative platform that combines payables, acquiring, and banking and treasury solutions. This unified approach allows businesses to streamline financial operations, reduce unnecessary costs, and uncover new revenue opportunities.
At Priority, we're driven by results. We expect our people to be known for results - bringing expertise, momentum, and relentless focus to every challenge, helping our clients and each other thrive.
About the Role:
The Compensation Manager is an expert on compensation operational matters, responsible for managing and optimizing all compensation programs, processes, and tools across the US and Canada, while providing process and tooling oversight for India. This role ensures fair, compliant, and scalable pay practices, maintains compensation data integrity, and partners with global stakeholders to improve the employee compensation experience through structured frameworks, market insights, and operational excellence.
Core Responsibilities:
Owns and manages the tools and systems that serve as the source of truth for compensation data, job grading, salary bands, band assignment, and job architecture. Maintains configuration, governance, workflows, access controls, documentation, and adoption standards across US and CAN, and oversees process and tooling consistency for India.
Owns salary band creation, updates, market benchmarking, governance, and role-to-band mapping for US and Canada. Oversees India compensation band processes and ensures structured, compliant, audit-ready role-to-band assignment guidance is maintained.
Owns the creation and maintenance of job architecture structure, job families, levels, leveling criteria, job catalog governance, and the tools that maintain them. Ensures roles are accurately mapped to levels and compensation bands. Partners with Organization Effectiveness on business alignment, expectation setting, and operational consistency.
Owns and oversees operational execution of bonus cycles, equity administration, pay governance, approvals, and documentation for US and Canada. Supports Finance, ELT, and People Operations with audit-ready records, cycle tracking, and payout governance.
Owns market benchmarking processes for US and Canada, maintaining internal equity and external competitiveness. Produces benchmark summaries, salary band updates, market positioning guidance, and pay fairness analysis for stakeholders.
Owns governance for global compensation tooling standards, with a focus on enabling scalable, normalized compensation processes. Ensures tools are responsibly managed, documented, and aligned to published frameworks.
Ensures compliance with federal and state exemption classification laws.
Ensures compliance with pay transparency laws.
What Success Looks Like:
Compensation tools and job architecture systems operate as a reliable, well-governed source of truth with accurate configurations, controlled access, and audit-ready documentation.
Salary bands, leveling, and role-to-band mapping are maintained with precision and consistency, reducing rework and eliminating uncertainty about pay placement.
Bonus cycles are executed on schedule with clear approvals, validation, and documented decision trails, ensuring payout integrity.
US and Canadian compensation programs run with repeatable, compliant processes that stakeholders can trust without hesitation.
India People Team members are enabled by clear process guides and well-managed tooling standards that scale without creating friction in employee or customer outcomes.
Pay decisions are supported by current, defensible market benchmarks and fairness analysis, allowing leaders to make confident, faster decisions.
Cross-functional partners experience fewer bottlenecks, tighter coordination, and reduced cycle delays during compensation planning and payouts.
Leaders, Finance, and People Team members can focus on higher-level priorities because the foundation of compensation operations is stable and predictable.
You are viewed as a calm, credible and practical owner of compensation infrastructure, capable of guiding complex topics in clear, role-relevant terms.
Trust is earned through accuracy, follow-through, documented decisions, and responsible stewardship of sensitive compensation data.
Candidate Requirements:
5+ years of compensation or Total Rewards operations experience, with deep expertise in the US compensation market and working knowledge of Canadian compensation administration preferred.
Experience owning compensation systems and tooling governance, including configuration, documentation, access controls, and process standardization.
Proven experience designing, maintaining, and governing salary bands and role-to-band mapping.
Hands-on experience of a job architecture framework, including job families, levels, leveling criteria, and job catalog governance, managed through tools or HRIS configuration.
Experience running compensation audits, approvals, and documentation that are structured, repeatable, and audit-ready.
Demonstrated ability to mentor and enable People teams in scaling compensation processes (particularly in India), without owning individual regional pay outcomes.
Strong knowledge of compensation compliance requirements in the US and Canada, including documentation standard and regulatory risk mitigation.
Experience managing sensitive data with discretion and operational rigor.
Owns and operates compensation foundations immediately, including salary bands, leveling, job architecture, and compensation data tooling.
Grows strategic influence over time as compensation programs and global processes mature.
Work Environment & Culture:
We believe that performance and experience go hand in hand - an exceptional employee experience is earned through contribution. We are a results-driven team, grounded in our core values: ownership, authenticity, service, trust, innovation, and camaraderie.
Our culture is built for those who want to make an impact. We challenge each other to grow, celebrate progress, and support one another through shared goals and real connection. Whether you're building technology, serving clients, or supporting internal teams, you’ll be part of a company that empowers you to perform at your best and be known for results.
Compensation and Benefits:
Compensation range: $123,000 - $151,000
We invest in the whole employee - personally and professionally. Our benefits package is designed to support your well-being, growth, and success - both inside and outside of work.
Financial Wellness
Bonus programs
401(k) match
Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
HSA and FSA options
Financial wellness resources and employee discount programs
Health & Well-being
Medical, dental, and vision coverage
Mental health support for employees and dependents through Lyra Health
Family planning and women’s health benefits through Carrot
Gym membership reimbursement and virtual wellness programs (including yoga)
Time Off
3 weeks PTO to start, with unlimited PTO after year one
Growth & Development
Education expense reimbursement
Leadership development programs
Certified Payments Professional (CPP) certification support
We believe great performance starts with feeling supported - and we’ve built our benefits with that in mind.
Traditional Physical Requirements:
Requires prolonged sitting, standing, bending, stooping and stretching.
Requires the ability to lift 10 pounds.
Requires eye-hand coordination, manual dexterity and a normal range of hearing and vision (with or without correction).
Join our team at Priority Technology Holdings, Inc. and be part of a dynamic and innovative company that is transforming the financial technology landscape. Together, we can shape the future of payments and banking solutions while providing unmatched value to our clients.