Senior Compensation Program Manager

Zillow Group, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

Remote-USA

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• The Senior Compensation Program Manager designs, analyzes, and administers complex global compensation programs that align pay practices with Zillow’s business strategy.
• The role leads advanced market benchmarking, data-driven insights, and cross-functional consultation with HR and Finance to support competitive, equitable, and compliant compensation decisions across a variety of roles and programs.
• Key Responsibilities include:
• Design and refine global salary structure, frameworks, and other compensation programs using advanced market benchmarking, internal equity analysis, and compensation analytics to maintain competitive and fair pay practices.
• Manage equity compensation programs, including plan design, administration, and analysis, ensuring alignment with overall compensation strategy and market practices.
• Own end-to-end program management of the recurring compensation planning cycle—including project scoping, timeline coordination, data validation, system configuration, and executive delivery—, serve as the dedicated compensation liaison to People Product and Technology teams and lead other complex initiatives such as incentive plan updates and job architecture projects.
• Build trusted partnerships with HR Business Partners and the HR Shared Services team, serving as the primary point of contact for escalated employee compensation inquiries.
• Develop and maintain compensation policy and process documentations, tools and models (e.g., offer tools, survey submissions, dashboards, job evaluation guidelines) to support scalable compensation governance and decision-making.
• Ensure data quality, compliance, and alignment with compensation policies by auditing compensation data, enforcing data governance standards, and identifying process improvements across systems such as Workday and external survey platforms.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Finance, or a related field.
• 8+ years of experience in compensation, rewards, or closely related HR analytics roles supporting program design and administration.
• Experience conducting market benchmarking, participating in or leading salary survey submissions, and applying survey data to develop or maintain salary structures and incentive programs.
• Experience analyzing large data sets to generate compensation insights and recommendations, using spreadsheets and reporting tools to inform decisions for HR and business stakeholders.
• Experience working with HRIS or HCM systems (such as Workday) to support compensation processes and maintain data integrity.

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive base salary
• Eligibility for equity awards based on factors such as experience, performance, and location
• Employees in this role will not be paid below the salary threshold for exempt employees in the state where they reside

Skills & Technologies

Senior

Remote

Degree Required

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About Zillow Group, Inc.

Zillow Group operates the largest digital real-estate marketplace in the United States, connecting buyers, sellers, renters, landlords and agents through websites and mobile apps. Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Seattle, the company provides property listings, valuation estimates via its Zestimate algorithm, comparative market analytics, mortgage origination and title services, and iBuying through its Zillow Instant Offers program. Revenue is generated primarily from Premier Agent advertising, lead generation, and real-estate services. The platform covers more than 110 million U.S. homes and is publicly traded on NASDAQ under the ticker ZG.

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