Replit

Director of Compensation Strategy at Replit (Foster City, CA)

Replit· Foster City, CA· $171k–$250k·

Role details

Salary
$171k–$250k
Work type
Hybrid
Employment
Full-Time
Skills
Compensation strategyTotal rewardsSalary bandsEquity designMarket benchmarkingData architectureHRISATSEquity platformsPaveRadfordRippling
Benefits

Competitive Salary · Equity · 401(K) Program With A 4% Match · Health Insurance · Dental Insurance · Vision Insurance · Life Insurance · Short Term Disability

Replit at a glance

Agentic software creation platform that turns plain-English ideas into working, deployed apps.

Replit lets anyone build and ship software by describing it in natural language. Its AI agent plans, writes, tests, and deploys code inside a browser-based full-stack platform that bundles an IDE, database, authentication, hosting, and monitoring.

~$922M across nine rounds (Tracxn) raised · latest: Series D · $400M · March 2026 · $9B valuation · backed by Georgian, Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), Coatue, Y Combinator

Summary

Architect Replit's compensation engine by translating philosophy into scalable systems, data infrastructure, and AI-enabled workflows. Partner with cross-functional teams to build tools that ensure market competitiveness, internal equity, and efficient compensation decision-making at scale.

Job description

Replit is the agentic software creation platform that enables anyone to build applications using natural language. With millions of users worldwide, Replit is democratizing software development by removing traditional barriers to application creation.

ROLE SUMMARY

Replit is the world's most widely used AI coding platform, and as we scale, we're rebuilding how compensation works internally from the ground up. This role owns that. You'll go beyond traditional comp management to architect the systems, data infrastructure, and AI-enabled workflows that make fast, consistent, and high-quality compensation decisions possible at scale.

You will serve as the architect of our compensation engine: translating compensation philosophy into scalable systems, and utilizing AI to improve speed, accuracy, and transparency.

You will partner closely with People Business Partners, Recruiting, Finance, People Operations, and the Data team to embed compensation directly into company workflows, eliminating manual processes and reducing reliance on comp as a service layer.

You will shape how we attract, reward, and retain top talent, while building infrastructure that scales with the business.

Compensation Strategy

  • Evolve our compensation philosophy across cash and equity; design and maintain salary bands, leveling frameworks, and equity structures
  • Ensure market competitiveness while partnering with Finance on cost and workforce planning
  • Operate compensation planning cycles and generate first-pass recommendations for comp decisions
  • Build dashboards and analytical frameworks covering market competitiveness, internal equity, retention risk, and workforce cost

WHAT WE'RE LOOKING FOR

  • 8+ years in compensation, total rewards, or related analytical roles, ideally at a high-growth tech company
  • Deep expertise in salary bands, equity design, and market benchmarking (broad-based, sales, and executive)
  • Strong systems thinker who can translate policy into scalable workflows and decision logic
  • Product mindset - you think in terms of users, workflows, and iteration
  • High ownership; willing to operate hands-on

Nice to have

AI-Native Workflows

  • Design and implement AI-enabled workflows for offers, merit, promotions, and market adjustments
  • Build human-in-the-loop validation frameworks to audit AI-generated recommendations for bias, accuracy, and logic

Tools: Pave, Radford, Rippling, Lattice, Ashby, Carta, Google Sheets, internal AI/automation tooling

This is a full-time role that can be held from our Foster City, CA office. The role has an in-office requirement of Monday, Wednesday, and Friday.

Full-Time Employee Benefits Include:

💰 Competitive Salary & Equity

💹 401(k) Program with a 4% match (US Only)

⚕️ Health, Dental, Vision and Life Insurance

🩼 Short Term and Long Term Disability

🚼 Paid Parental, Medical, Caregiver Leave

🏝 Flexible Time Off (FTO) + Holidays

🚗 Commuter Benefits (In-Office & US Only)

📱 Monthly Wellness Stipend

🧑‍💻 Autonomous Work Environment

🖥 In Office Set-Up Reimbursement (In-Office Only)

🚀 Quarterly Team Gatherings

☕ In Office Amenities (In-Office Only)

Want to learn more about what we are up to?

Interviewing + Culture at Replit

To achieve our mission of making programming more accessible around the world, we need our team to be representative of the world. We welcome your unique perspective and experiences in shaping this product. We encourage people from all kinds of backgrounds to apply, including and especially candidates from underrepresented and non-traditional backgrounds.

Why work at Replit

  • Culture: Described as a place for "builders who care about craft, speed, and making things that matter." The company values "ideas first. Proof matters. Momentum wins."
  • Work Style: "In person, on purpose." Replit emphasizes working from its HQ in Foster City, believing that proximity accelerates decisions and improves work quality. It operates a hybrid model with a strong in-office expectation.
  • Compensation & Benefits:
    • Competitive salary, equity, and performance bonus
    • Health, dental, and vision insurance with HSA contributions ($2k individual / $4k family)
    • 24 weeks paid birth-parent leave; 12 weeks paid bonding and family care leave
    • 401K with company matching
    • $1,000 annual learning & development reimbursement
    • Monthly wellness stipend, commuter benefits, and in-office meals (breakfast, lunch, dinner)
    • Flexible time off and paid sick leave
  • Engineering Culture: Strong emphasis on building resilient, scalable systems (Kubernetes, GCP). Roles like Staff Infrastructure Engineer and GRC Engineer indicate a mature, security-conscious engineering environment.

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