Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Syndio is a compensation intelligence and pay governance platform that helps organizations make fair, compliant, and data-informed pay decisions. The Senior Domain Expert, Total Rewards is a senior individual contributor who provides expert compensation guidance, owns a compensation content and product area, develops scalable resources, and partners with Product, AI, data science, development, and customers to improve total rewards solutions.

Responsibilities

• 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

Skills

• 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

Benefits

• Syndio Equity. So you can share in Syndio’s success
• 20 days annually
• Paid sick & safe time
• Compassion leave
• Voting leave
• Additional Private Medical coverage
• Remote-First (within commuting distance of Calgary)

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