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# Senior Domain Expert, Total Rewards at Syndio

- **Company:** Syndio
- **Location:** United States
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-09-17
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-17
- **Apply:** https://synd.io/careers/?gh_jid=6196731004

## Job description

Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies while ensuring fair pay for all employees?

Syndio is the leading pay governance and compensation intelligence platform. We help organizations make better pay decisions at every stage of the compensation lifecycle, from leveling and offers to promotions and merit. Our platform gives HR, compensation, and finance leaders the data and decision support they need to govern pay fairly, compliantly, and with confidence. We partner with many of the world’s most recognized and respected enterprises, helping them implement leading-edge compensation solutions with expert guidance and analyzing pay for over 10 million employees across the world.

Join us in our mission to help companies make smarter pay decisions they can trust!

## About the role

Syndio is the leader in compensation equity and pay decision intelligence, helping the world's largest employers make fair, defensible, and transparent pay decisions at scale. As Decisions expands across the compensation lifecycle — from leveling and offers to promotions and merit — the compensation practice depth behind our recommendations has to keep pace.

The Senior Domain Expert (Total Rewards) is a hands-on compensation practitioner on the Applied Pay Intelligence team. Draw on your past experience in total rewards strategy as well as Syndio-provided training on pay equity best practices to provide expert advice on advanced pay equity topics to customers, fellow employees, and external audiences. This is a senior individual contributor role. You are the person our customers, our product, and the rest of the team turn to when the question is how pay should actually be structured — job architecture, market data, pay ranges, offer construction, geographic differentials — and how it should hold up in front of a CHRO, a comp committee, or a works council.

You own an area of Syndio's compensation content and product surface, build the 1:many resources that scale your expertise across the customer base, partner directly with Product to embed compensation practice into Decisions and Essentials, and show up in the customer conversations where the design choices have to hold. You will translate custom analytics into product requirements and support product and development teams as needed on design and implementation plans, partner with the data science and development teams to ensure the product helps advance the outcomes of our total rewards customers.

## Why this job is exciting

- Lead a squad. You will be an individual contributor but you will own an area of Syndio's compensation content and product surface — job architecture, market data integration, pay range design, offer intelligence, or a related domain. Guide the squad's roadmap, prioritize what gets built on the Applied Expertise team, and hold the practitioner bar for the work that ships.
- Apply total rewards expertise in complex customer situations. Work through the design questions customers can't resolve inside the product: architecture redesigns, market data conflicts, range strategy, offer logic, geographic differentials. Bring the practice, explain the tradeoffs, defend the approach.
- Build 1:many resources. Turn recurring compensation questions into durable content — customer briefings, design guides, model communication templates, worked examples — so recurring questions do not require a recurring meeting.
- Partner with Product. Work directly with Product and AI teams to embed compensation practice into Decisions and Essentials. Shape offer recommendation logic, range and structure inputs, market data workflows. Catch the practitioner-level edge cases before customers do.
- Show up for the moments that matter. Anchor customer QBRs, offer strategy conversations, and architecture reviews where the design has to hold up under CHRO or board scrutiny. Not every meeting — the ones where getting the structure and the framing right changes the outcome.
- Feed the frameworks upward. Surface what current frameworks don't yet cover. Bring specific customer patterns and design gaps to the Principal-level colleagues and to Product so the platform's intelligence keeps compounding.

## About you

- 5+ years of hands-on total rewards, compensation, or organizational design work, ideally with meaningful time in job architecture, market data, pay range design, or org design projects at enterprise scale.
- Deep facility with compensation practice: leveling frameworks, benchmarking methodology, salary structure design, offer construction, geographic differentials, incentive design.
- Experience translating compensation practice into something a broader team can execute — a playbook, a tool, a product, a set of standards — not just doing the work yourself.
- Demonstrated ability to hold a credible conversation with a CHRO, a comp committee, or an HRBP leadership team about design tradeoffs, and to write for those audiences.
- Strong judgment on the difference between presenting design options and prescribing outcomes, and comfort holding that line.
- Track record of building content, documentation, or enablement materials that reduce reliance on your calendar over time.
- Comfort thinking about how compensation expertise translates into AI-mediated product capability, particularly for offer recommendation and structure design in Decisions.
- Experience in HR tech, compensation SaaS, or a related enterprise domain is a strong plus.

Why you'll love it here:

- 💰 Competitive Compensation. For this role our salary is targeted at $142,000 -$167,000 per year. Final offer amounts are determined by factors such as experience and expertise. We take a geo neutral approach to compensation within the US, meaning that we pay based on job function and level, not location.
- 🏆  Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success.
- 🏝  Flexible Vacation Policy. We encourage our team to recharge when they need to, plus paid sick & safe time, compassion leave, and voting leave.
- Paid parental leave
- 🩺  Medical, Dental, Vision. Syndio pays 90% of employee premiums, and 50% for dependents.
- 🏥  Life Insurance & Disability. Syndio covers the full premium.
- 🏦 401(k). To help you save for your future
- Fully remote model - #LI-Remote

The interview overview

Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for our Senior Domain Expert position. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.

- 30 min interview with a member of our Talent Team
- 45 minute zoom interview with the Hiring Manager (VP Applied Pay Intelligence)
- 45 minute zoom interview with a Product partner
- Panel interview with Applied Pay Intelligence team members - 1 hour
- Final interview with executive - 30 minutes

At Syndio, we're building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the "about you" listed here. We don't expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as you're willing to learn and grow with us.

Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion, physical disability and age.

## About Syndio

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Syndio provides an AI-powered governance platform that helps global enterprises make every compensation decision compliant, consistent, and defensible in real time.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series C, raised $83M total)
- **Headquarters**: Seattle, Washington, USA
- **Founded**: 2016
- **Founders**: Zev Eigen (data scientist and law professor)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: HR Technology / Compensation & Pay Equity Software
- **Target customers**: B2B, primarily large global enterprises (350+ customers including more than half the Fortune 100, such as Walmart, Microsoft, and Salesforce)
- **Mission**: To help companies make smarter pay decisions they can trust.

## Products & Services
- **Syndio Platform (Decision Intelligence for Pay)**: A SaaS platform that governs every compensation decision—hires, promotions, merit cycles—with real-time guidance, compliance checks, and analytics. It is powered by Syndi™, a proprietary AI built for high-stakes compensation work.
- **Essentials**: A foundational tier for setting up pay governance.
- **Predict**: A forward-looking module for modeling the impact of compensation decisions.
- **Global Pay Reports**: Automated pay gap reporting across 100+ countries, including compliance with the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
- **Syndi™ AI**: An AI-native technology that embeds governance into the tools teams already use.
- **Embrace.ai (Acquired 2026)**: An agentic AI startup whose technology and team (co-founders Derek Butts and Seth Halpern) are accelerating Syndio's agentic AI roadmap.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Total Funding**: $83 million (including a $50 million Series C in 2021).
- **Key Metric**: Syndio governs over **$1 trillion in pay decisions** for **350+ global enterprises**, covering **10M+ employee pay records**.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Not explicitly named in available sources, but the company is backed by venture capital.
- **Growth Signals**:
    - Made its first acquisition in 2026 (Embrace.ai) to accelerate agentic AI capabilities.
    - Expanded global footprint to 100+ countries.
    - Launched solutions for the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
    - Ranked No. 48 on the GeekWire 200 index of top Pacific Northwest startups.
    - Reports that its platform can produce $31M to $62M in value per year for a company with 60,000 employees.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Category Creator & Pioneer**: Syndio built the pay equity category and has nearly a decade of experience, earning the trust of the world's most scrutinized global enterprises.
- **Enterprise-Grade Trust & Security**: SOC-2 compliant, trusted inside attorney-client privilege, and its analysis has held up in boardrooms and litigation.
- **Proprietary AI (Syndi™)**: Purpose-built for high-stakes compensation work, continuously tested to reduce bias, and embedded where decisions happen.
- **Domain Expertise**: Deep expertise in compensation, pay equity, and global compliance regulations, with a leadership team experienced at companies like Workday, Amazon, Starbucks, and Smartsheet.
- **Customer Base**: Over half of the Fortune 100 are customers, providing a strong network effect and credibility.

## Strategic Focus
- **Pioneering Decision Intelligence for Pay**: Moving beyond pay equity reporting to become the real-time governance layer for every compensation decision.
- **Agentic AI**: Using the acquisition of Embrace.ai to build the next generation of AI-powered pay intelligence with a focus on governance, explainability, and automation.
- **Global Compliance**: Continuing to expand capabilities to meet evolving regulations, such as the EU Pay Transparency Directive.
- **Product Innovation**: Embedding AI-native tools into the workflows of HR, legal, and compensation teams.

## Why Work Here
- **Impact-Driven Mission**: Employees work on a product that helps the world's most influential companies make fairer, more transparent pay decisions—work with real social impact.
- **Remote-First Culture**: The company is remote-first with in-person meetups, offering flexibility.
- **Competitive Benefits**:
    - Flexible vacation policy (U.S.) + paid holidays.
    - Top-tier healthcare (90% employee / 50% dependent coverage).
    - Stock options + 401(k) option (U.S.).
    - Home office + electronics stipends.
    - Life and disability insurance.
    - Paid parental leave.
- **Transparency & DEI&B**: The company "lives what it delivers" by publishing its own salary ranges, CEO pay ratio, and median pay gap. DEI&B is built into structured interview processes and diverse hiring panels.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: A team of "curious builders and bold problem-solvers" building AI-native products with enterprise-grade standards. The company emphasizes responsible growth and ethical AI.
- **Leadership**: Led by CEO Maria Colacurcio, a former co-founder of Smartsheet (which went public in 2018), and a leadership team with deep experience at world-class companies.

## Sources
1. [synd.io](https://synd.io/)
2. [synd.io/careers](https://synd.io/careers/)
3. [synd.io/about-us](https://synd.io/about-us/)
4. [linkedin.com/company/syndioinc](https://www.linkedin.com/company/syndioinc)
5. [geekwire.com](https://www.geekwire.com/2026/syndio-bets-on-agentic-ai-with-first-acquisition-in-seattle-pay-equity-startups-history/)

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