--- title: 'Senior Compensation Manager at Waabi' canonical: 'https://feeny.ai/job/senior-compensation-manager-waabi-us-gb35760sq5cy' type: 'job' last_seen: '2026-10-15' --- # Senior Compensation Manager at Waabi - **Company:** Waabi - **Location:** US &, Canada - **Employment:** full-time - **Work type:** hybrid - **Posted:** 2026-10-07 - **Last confirmed live:** 2026-10-15 - **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/waabi/99598723-50aa-4733-ae66-bf1084c10689 ## Job description Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech. With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.ai ## About the role Waabi continues to scale its breakthrough technology into commercial deployment, and how we attract, reward, and retain exceptional people will be central to the ongoing growth and innovation. This role directly shapes that story: understanding where the business is going and ensuring our compensation structure continues to support that trajectory. You'll be responsible for designing for the current and the future while also being the trusted expert for employees, managers, executives, and company leadership when it comes to our compensation approach and program. You will... Anchor compensation in the business trajectory. Build a deep understanding of Waabi's growth path, including headcount plans, commercialization milestones, geographic expansion, and funding outlook, and use it to guide compensation decisions. Design the compensation structure of the future and the plan to get there. Define how base, equity, and variable pay work together to support where the business is headed. Understand today’s structure, set the long-term philosophy, ranges, and grant guidelines, then lay out the roadmap and sequencing to evolve if needed. Own the end-to-end annual compensation cycle, including administering the compensation tool and partnering with managers and senior leaders to plan outcomes for their teams. Streamline and scale the process, including through AI tools where they add value. Lead market benchmarking for all roles across Waabi's locations, deeply understanding the job architecture and talent marketplace, to effectively complete job matching, survey submissions, and recommending updates to cash and equity ranges. Build bottoms-up compensation forecasts with Finance, modeling spend and equity usage against the business plan. Own a variety of modeling and analysis projects to inform decision making. Lead compensation enablement and education across the organization. Be the single owner of how Waabi teaches compensation: Training managers on the structure, philosophy and how pay decisions are made Helping employees understand the value and mechanics of their total compensation, including stock options Equipping Recruiting to structure competitive offers Building employee communications that tie it together Communicate and advise across company leadership. Translate complex compensation topics into clear recommendations and trade-offs for the executive team. 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. Qualifications: 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. Bonus/nice to have: 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. The US yearly salary range for this role is: $175,000 - $260,000 USD in addition to competitive perks & benefits. Waabi US Inc.’s yearly salary ranges are determined based on several factors in accordance with the Company’s compensation practices. Note: The Company provides additional compensation for employees in this role, including equity incentive awards and an annual performance bonus. Perks/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. As we grow, this list continues to evolve! 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! 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. ## About Waabi ## Company Overview - **One-liner**: Waabi is pioneering Physical AI for autonomous vehicles, starting with self-driving trucks and expanding into robotaxis, using a breakthrough interpretable AI model and the industry's most realistic neural simulator. - **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, $1B total funding) - **Headquarters**: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - **Founded**: 2021 - **Founders**: Raquel Urtasun ## Core Business - **Primary industries**: Autonomous vehicle technology, truck transportation, logistics, robotaxi services - **Target customers**: B2B – trucking fleets, logistics providers, and eventually ride-hailing operators; enterprise partnerships with OEMs and transportation companies - **Mission**: To empower humanity to build a better tomorrow by fundamentally rethinking how autonomous vehicles are developed, deployed, and scaled – safely and efficiently. ## Products & Services - **Waabi Driver**: An end-to-end, interpretable and verifiable AI system that enables self-driving capabilities for trucks and, soon, robotaxis. The system is designed to be scalable and safe by leveraging a next-generation neural simulator (Waabi World) for validation before deployment on public roads. - **Waabi World**: The industry’s most realistic neural simulator, used for testing and training the Waabi Driver in millions of scenarios, dramatically reducing the time and resources needed to bring autonomous vehicles to market. ## Market Standing - **Valuation/Market Cap**: Not disclosed (private company) - **Key Metrics**: Annual Revenue: $11.2M (est., from private data providers); Total Funding: ~$1B across four rounds; Headcount: 271 employees (+51% YoY) - **Notable Investors/Partners**: Khosla Ventures (lead in Series B & C), Uber, Volvo Group Venture Capital, Radical Ventures, NVentures (NVIDIA’s venture arm) - **Growth Signals**: - Raised $750M Series C in January 2026 (led by Khosla Ventures) - Expanding from autonomous trucks into robotaxi market (hired Ryan Wallace as GM of Robotaxi in Sept 2026) - 52 active job postings (+62% YoY job posting growth) - Talent influx from Cruise, Aurora, Uber, Waymo, TuSimple, NVIDIA ## Competitive Advantages - **Interpretable & verifiable AI**: Unlike black-box systems, Waabi’s end-to-end model is designed to be transparent and auditable, increasing trust and regulatory viability. - **Neural simulator (Waabi World)**: Enables massive-scale virtual testing that accelerates development while maintaining safety – a key moat over rivals that rely on costly real-world miles. - **Founder-led**: Raquel Urtasun is a world-renowned AI researcher (former Uber ATG chief scientist) with deep expertise in computer vision and autonomous systems. ## Strategic Focus - **Scale the Waabi Driver** for commercial trucking operations and simultaneously **enter the robotaxi market**. - **Deepen OEM and strategic partnerships** (e.g., with Volvo and Uber) to integrate technology into production vehicles. - **Continue aggressive hiring** of AI researchers, software engineers, systems engineers, and policy experts across North America. ## Why Work Here - **Culture**: Values safety, efficiency, data-driven decision-making, and a "virtuous cycle of innovation." Emphasis on real-world impact and personal growth. - **Remote/Hybrid**: Offers remote flexibility with 5 offices across North America (Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, Phoenix, Pittsburgh). Many roles are hybrid or remote. - **Engineering culture**: Technical stack includes Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, CUDA, ROS, Linux, Kubernetes, and proprietary simulation tools. 43% of employees are in technical roles, 15% in research. - **Perks**: Not explicitly listed, but strong employer rating (4.6/5 on third-party reviews) and high compensation (e.g., Staff Software Developer median ~$151K USD, Systems Engineer ~$124K). - **Growth opportunities**: 51% YoY headcount growth, many leadership hires; career progression from intern to director roles is common. ## Sources 1. [waabi.ai/careers](https://www.waabi.ai/careers) 2. [waabi.ai/company](https://waabi.ai/company) 3. [jobs.lever.co/waabi](https://jobs.lever.co/waabi) 4. [linkedin.com/company/waabi](https://www.linkedin.com/company/waabi) 5. 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