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About the Role
This role directly shapes Waabi's compensation strategy, ensuring it supports the company's growth and innovation. You will be the trusted expert for compensation-related matters, designing for the present and future.
Responsibilities
- Anchor compensation in the business trajectory by understanding Waabi's growth path and guiding compensation decisions.
- Design the future compensation structure, defining how base, equity, and variable pay work together.
- Own the end-to-end annual compensation cycle, including administering the compensation tool and partnering with leaders.
- Lead market benchmarking for all roles across Waabi's locations, understanding the job architecture and talent marketplace.
- Build bottoms-up compensation forecasts with Finance, modeling spend and equity usage against the business plan.
- Lead compensation enablement and education across the organization, training managers and employees.
- Equip Recruiting to structure competitive offers.
- Build employee communications that tie compensation together.
- Communicate and advise across company leadership, translating complex compensation topics into clear recommendations.
- Manage preparation of compensation materials for board review and discussions.
- Ensure pay equity and compliance through regular reviews and adherence to pay transparency and reporting requirements across the U.S. and Canada.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Business, Human Resources, or a related field.
- 7+ years of compensation experience, ideally in high-growth technology companies, including owning annual cycles and multi-location benchmarking.
- Experience designing compensation philosophy, structures and programs (salary, variable and equity).
- Extensive analytical and modeling skills (including building forecasts) as well as expertise in benchmarking and survey methodology (Radford, Carta, Pave, etc).
- Executive presence, with clear, confident communication to employees, managers, and senior executives.
- Strong collaboration and communication skills.
- Sound judgment and discretion with sensitive, confidential information.
- Enthusiasm for applying AI tools (e.g., ChatGPT, Claude) to improve workflows.
- Open-minded and collaborative team player with the willingness to help others.
- Passionate about self-driving technologies, solving hard problems, and creating innovative solutions.
- Experience with private company compensation planning, including planning through company evolution (revenue, funding, and maturity).
- Experience managing preparation for board review of compensation programs.
- Direct experience in HIgh-Tech, AI or AV company, with an understanding of how the talent marketplace shapes pay.
- Hands-on experience using AI tools (e.g., Claude, ChatGPT) to automate compensation analysis, modeling, or cycle workflows.
Skills
- Compensation design
- Market benchmarking
- Financial modeling
- Survey methodology
- Executive communication
- Collaboration
- AI tools (ChatGPT, Claude)
- Pay equity
- Pay transparency
- Compensation analysis
- Compensation cycle management
Location
- Toronto
- San Francisco
- Dallas
- Pittsburgh
- U.S.
- Canada
Work Type
- Full-time
- Work from Home support
Experience Level
- 7+ years of compensation experience
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in Economics, Finance, Business, Human Resources, or a related field.
Salary/Compensations
- $175,000 - $260,000 USD
Benefits
- Competitive compensation and equity awards.
- Health and Wellness benefits encompassing Medical, Dental and Vision coverage (for full-time employees only).
- Unlimited Vacation.
- Flexible hours and Work from Home support.
- Daily drinks, snacks and catered meals (when in office).
- Regularly scheduled team building activities and social events both on-site, off-site & virtually.
- Annual performance bonus.
About the Company
- Waabi is the leader in Physical AI, unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis.
- Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech.
- Waabi is a technology start-up building technologies to transform the way the world moves.
- Join our talented team to be a part of the future and to make an impact!
Equal Opportunity
- Waabi is an equal opportunity employer.
- We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and accessible workplace for all our employees.
- We seek applicants of all backgrounds and identities, across race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, age, citizenship, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, military or veteran status, marital status, pregnancy or parental status, caregiver status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.
- We make workplace accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities as required by applicable law.
- If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please let our recruiting team know.