Compensation Analyst
Apply NowCompany: TerraPower
Location: Bellevue, WA 98006
Description:
TITLE: Compensation Analyst
LOCATION: Bellevue, WA, USA
TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower's mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company's activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications - all for significant human health benefits.
TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.
Compensation Analyst
The Compensation Analyst will play a critical role in building and shaping TerraPower's evolving compensation infrastructure. As a member of the Human Resources team, this role requires a strategic, analytical, and hands-on professional who can operate in a dynamic environment where compensation practices and processes are still maturing. The ideal candidate will bring clarity to complexity, develop structure where needed, and help design a compensation program that is both competitive and aligned with our business goals and compliance needs. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, creating from the ground up, and partnering across a growing organization to build sustainable systems and tools.
Responsibilities
Design and Evolve Compensation Programs: Partner with HR leadership to develop and refine compensation philosophy, strategies, and frameworks that align with business objectives and future workforce needs.
Bring Structure to Complexity: Lead the development and maintenance of scalable tools, policies, processes, discipline-based job grids and other documentation to organize, clarify, and mature compensation systems.
Market Analysis & Benchmarking: Support identification of compensation related vendors. Conduct annual and ongoing market pricing and benchmarking studies; participate in and analyze industry compensation surveys to guide pay decisions.
Salary Structure Management: Maintain, revise, and evolve salary structures, ranges, and job levels to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness.
Compliance: Conduct annual pay equity analyses. Collaborate with internal partners to support compliance and audit related efforts and ensure compensation practices support fairness, transparency, and regulatory compliance.
Consultative Partnership: Serve as a trusted partner to HR Business Partners, Recruiting, and internal colleagues, providing insight and guidance on complex compensation matters.
Data and Reporting: Prepare and analyze compensation data for various audiences, including executives and regulatory bodies; support compliance reporting including EEO and other required filings.
Foster Vendor Relationships Identify vendors and maintain relationship to ensure high quality servicing of compensation needs
Compensation Education: Develop internal tools, guides, and communication materials to increase manager and employee understanding of compensation programs.
Special Projects and Vendor Management: Manage compensation-related initiatives and collaborate with external vendors on strategic and compliance-related efforts.
Key Qualifications and Skills
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Finance, Mathematics or related discipline is preferred
5+ years of progressive Compensation Program experience, preferably in a rapidly scaling environment
Must have deep analytical skills, including advanced Excel skills (such as pivot tables, VBA, macros and automation)
Must have experience supporting executive compensation programs
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including creation of policies, report generation and analysis creation
Strong understanding of compensation programs relative to engineering, technical and science professionals
Strong project management and organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Highly accurate and detail focused
Experience with domestic and international geographic assignment compensation is strongly preferred
Demonstrates 'builder mindset' and is comfortable navigating ambiguity and creating clarity
The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.
Job Functions
Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position. These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation. Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations. An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed, and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and other considerations, including but not limited to any governing safety standards.
Motor Abilities: Sitting and/or standing for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)
Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 15 pounds
Repetitive work: Prolonged
Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work
Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >8 hrs./day
Travel required: 5-10%, primarily for visits to TerraPower offices or to conferences
TerraPower's technology is controlled for export by various agencies of the U.S. Government. TerraPower must evaluate applicants who are foreign nationals (other than asylees, refugees, or lawful permanent residents) in accordance with U.S. Government export control requirements. To facilitate TerraPower's export control reviews, you will be asked as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or national, asylee, refugee, or lawful permanent resident of the United States. Government export authorization approval times vary. Based on the business needs for a particular position, TerraPower may not consider a foreign national from a country if it is impracticable to obtain timely Government export approval.
Job details
Salary Range Level 11: $ 125,257 - $ 208,762
*Typically, our employee salaries are within .90 - 1.0 of the mid-point of the posted salary bands. Any salary offered within the posted salary band is based on market data and commensurate with the selected candidate's qualifications and experience. This range is specific to Washington State.
Benefits:
Competitive Compensation
Salary, eligible to participate in discretionary short-term incentive payments
Comprehensive Medical and Wellness Benefits for family or individual
o Vision
o Dental
o Life
o Life and Disability
o Gender Affirmation Benefits
o Parental Leave
401k Plan
Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
o 21 days of annually accrued PTO
Generous Holiday Schedule
o 10 paid holidays
Relocation Assistance
Professional and Educational Support Opportunities
Flexible Work Schedule
TerraPower Career and Benefits information: https://www.terrapower.com/contact-us/careers/
LOCATION: Bellevue, WA, USA
TerraPower is a nuclear technology company based in Bellevue, Washington. At its core, the company is working to raise living standards globally through a more affordable, secure and environmentally friendly form of nuclear energy along with innovations in medical isotopes to improve human health. In 2006, TerraPower originated with Bill Gates and a group of like-minded visionaries who evaluated the fundamental challenges to raising living standards around the world. They recognized energy access was crucial to the health and economic well-being of communities and decided that the private sector needed to take action and create energy sources that would advance global energy deployment. TerraPower's mission is to be a world leader in new nuclear technologies, while developing innovators and future leaders in the nuclear field. As a result, the company's activities in the fields of nuclear energy and related sciences are yielding significant innovations in the safety and economics of nuclear power, hybrid energy and medical applications - all for significant human health benefits.
TerraPower is seeking to hire highly motivated and forward-thinking professionals who are interested in focusing on advanced nuclear reactor research and development and influencing change within the nuclear power landscape and bringing forward the critical production of medical isotopes. TerraPower is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate in hiring on the basis of sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, national origin, physical or mental disability, protected Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. In addition, as a federal contractor, TerraPower has instituted an Affirmative Action Plan (AAP) in an effort to proactively recruit, hire, and promote women, minorities, disabled persons and veterans.
Compensation Analyst
The Compensation Analyst will play a critical role in building and shaping TerraPower's evolving compensation infrastructure. As a member of the Human Resources team, this role requires a strategic, analytical, and hands-on professional who can operate in a dynamic environment where compensation practices and processes are still maturing. The ideal candidate will bring clarity to complexity, develop structure where needed, and help design a compensation program that is both competitive and aligned with our business goals and compliance needs. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys solving complex problems, creating from the ground up, and partnering across a growing organization to build sustainable systems and tools.
Responsibilities
Design and Evolve Compensation Programs: Partner with HR leadership to develop and refine compensation philosophy, strategies, and frameworks that align with business objectives and future workforce needs.
Bring Structure to Complexity: Lead the development and maintenance of scalable tools, policies, processes, discipline-based job grids and other documentation to organize, clarify, and mature compensation systems.
Market Analysis & Benchmarking: Support identification of compensation related vendors. Conduct annual and ongoing market pricing and benchmarking studies; participate in and analyze industry compensation surveys to guide pay decisions.
Salary Structure Management: Maintain, revise, and evolve salary structures, ranges, and job levels to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness.
Compliance: Conduct annual pay equity analyses. Collaborate with internal partners to support compliance and audit related efforts and ensure compensation practices support fairness, transparency, and regulatory compliance.
Consultative Partnership: Serve as a trusted partner to HR Business Partners, Recruiting, and internal colleagues, providing insight and guidance on complex compensation matters.
Data and Reporting: Prepare and analyze compensation data for various audiences, including executives and regulatory bodies; support compliance reporting including EEO and other required filings.
Foster Vendor Relationships Identify vendors and maintain relationship to ensure high quality servicing of compensation needs
Compensation Education: Develop internal tools, guides, and communication materials to increase manager and employee understanding of compensation programs.
Special Projects and Vendor Management: Manage compensation-related initiatives and collaborate with external vendors on strategic and compliance-related efforts.
Key Qualifications and Skills
Bachelor's degree in Accounting, HR, Finance, Mathematics or related discipline is preferred
5+ years of progressive Compensation Program experience, preferably in a rapidly scaling environment
Must have deep analytical skills, including advanced Excel skills (such as pivot tables, VBA, macros and automation)
Must have experience supporting executive compensation programs
Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including creation of policies, report generation and analysis creation
Strong understanding of compensation programs relative to engineering, technical and science professionals
Strong project management and organizational skills with ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
Highly accurate and detail focused
Experience with domestic and international geographic assignment compensation is strongly preferred
Demonstrates 'builder mindset' and is comfortable navigating ambiguity and creating clarity
The successful candidate will possess a high degree of trust and integrity, communicate openly and display respect and a desire to foster teamwork.
Job Functions
Job Functions are physical actions and/or working conditions associated with the position. These functions may also constitute essential functions for the job which the employee must be able to fulfill, with or without accommodation. Information provided below is to help describe the job so that the applicant has a reasonable understanding of the job duties/expectations. An applicant's ability to perform and/or tolerate these actions and conditions will be discussed, and workplace accommodations may be made on a case-by-case basis following an individualized assessment of the applicant and other considerations, including but not limited to any governing safety standards.
Motor Abilities: Sitting and/or standing for extended periods, bending/stooping, grasping/gripping, fine motor control (hands)
Physical exertion and/or requirements: Minimal, with ability to safely lift up to 15 pounds
Repetitive work: Prolonged
Special Senses: Visual and audio focused work
Work Conditions: Stairs, typing/keyboard, standard and/or sitting working environment of >8 hrs./day
Travel required: 5-10%, primarily for visits to TerraPower offices or to conferences
TerraPower's technology is controlled for export by various agencies of the U.S. Government. TerraPower must evaluate applicants who are foreign nationals (other than asylees, refugees, or lawful permanent residents) in accordance with U.S. Government export control requirements. To facilitate TerraPower's export control reviews, you will be asked as part of the application process to identify whether you are a U.S. Citizen or national, asylee, refugee, or lawful permanent resident of the United States. Government export authorization approval times vary. Based on the business needs for a particular position, TerraPower may not consider a foreign national from a country if it is impracticable to obtain timely Government export approval.
Job details
Salary Range Level 11: $ 125,257 - $ 208,762
*Typically, our employee salaries are within .90 - 1.0 of the mid-point of the posted salary bands. Any salary offered within the posted salary band is based on market data and commensurate with the selected candidate's qualifications and experience. This range is specific to Washington State.
Benefits:
Competitive Compensation
Salary, eligible to participate in discretionary short-term incentive payments
Comprehensive Medical and Wellness Benefits for family or individual
o Vision
o Dental
o Life
o Life and Disability
o Gender Affirmation Benefits
o Parental Leave
401k Plan
Generous Paid Time Off (PTO)
o 21 days of annually accrued PTO
Generous Holiday Schedule
o 10 paid holidays
Relocation Assistance
Professional and Educational Support Opportunities
Flexible Work Schedule
TerraPower Career and Benefits information: https://www.terrapower.com/contact-us/careers/