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They partner closely with the Sr. Director of Compensation, Talent Acquisition, HR Operations, and Finance to ensure clean data, disciplined pay practices, and reliable headcount and compensation forecasting. \nThis role delivers the analytical horsepower and operational precision behind Viant’s compensation strategy. \nTHE DAY-TO-DAY\nRun annual merit, bonus, and equity cycles end-to-end, including data prep, audits, templates, modeling, and manager support. \nBuild, maintain, and reconcile compensation files used for comp cycles and executive reviews. \nConduct market pricing, maintain job architecture and salary bands, evaluate new job requests, and ensure consistent leveling and pricing across functions and locations. \nOwn day-to-day accuracy of the compensation census-job codes, bands, geography, cost centers-and partner with HRIS on audits, validations, and corrections. \nMaintain rolling headcount and compensation forecasts; model the impact of hires, exits, promotions, and adjustments to support annual and ongoing planning. \nProvide cost analyses, scenario modeling, and recommendations during reforecast and planning cycles, streamlining and automating reporting where possible. \nPartner with Talent Acquisition to review offers, ensure internal equity, validate band placement, and support offer guidelines and negotiation guardrails. \nProduce compensation dashboards and analytics (compa-ratios, distribution, equity, compression, geographic differentials, risk areas) and provide ad hoc insights to HR, TA, and Finance. \nEnsure compliance with pay transparency laws, internal equity standards, SOX requirements, and maintain audit-ready documentation for all compensation decisions. \nCollaborate cross-functionally with HR Ops and TA on job changes, data accuracy, workflows, system builds, and compensation inputs for budgeting and forecasting. \nGREAT TO HAVE\n4 to 7+ years experience in Compensation, Total Rewards, or Finance/FP&A with compensation exposure. \nStrong comp analysis, modeling, benchmarking, and data accuracy skills. \nSolid understanding of compensation best practices, job leveling, pay equity, and salary structures. \nExpert in Excel and comfortable manipulating large datasets. \nExperience partnering with HRIS teams; ADP, Charthop and Greenhouse familiarity a plus. \nAbility to manage deadlines, maintain accuracy, and operate with discretion. \nStrong communication skills and ability to explain comp concepts to managers and leaders. \nLIFE AT VIANT\nInvesting in our employee’s professional growth is important to us, but so is investing in their well-being. That’s why Viant was voted one of the best places to work and some of our favorite employee benefits includefully paid health insurance, paid parental leave and unlimited PTO and more. \nBase compensation range: $165,000 - $185,000\nIn accordance with California law, the range provided is Viant’s reasonable estimate of the compensation for this role. Final title and compensation for the position will be based on several factors including work experience and education.\nAbout Viant\nViant Technology (NASDAQ: DSP) is an exclusively buy-side, AI-powered advertising platform purpose-built for CTV. Viant uniquely combines proprietary content intelligence, household-level identity resolution, and person-level attention signals to connect advertisers with real customers and drive measurable outcomes across the open internet. Through its award-winning AI solutions, Viant is building the future of autonomous advertising, where AI doesn't just assist the campaign, it delivers real results. 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