About us: What you'll do:

The Americas Senior Compensation Manager is a unique, high-impact dual role combining compensation strategy leadership with advanced technical stewardship of our compensation ecosystem. This individual will lead the Americas compensation team while serving as a global subject matter expert (SME) for rewards data infrastructure, modeling, and automation (specifically within Workday and advanced Excel ecosystems) and annual compensation planning processes.

A key focus of this role is striking a balance between strategic management and execution: mentoring a team of compensation analysts while architecting complex compensation models, executing annual review cycles, and ensuring pay equity across the region.

The day-to-day:

• Take lead role in enterprise-wide compensation strategy definition, aligning pay programs with business objectives, talent priorities, and market competitiveness
• Lead design and execution of annual and mid-year compensation planning cycles (merit, bonus, equity), ensuring alignment to budget, performance, and pay-for-performance principles
• Reinforce compensation philosophy, frameworks, and governance to drive consistency, equity, and transparency across the organization
• Partner with Executive Leadership and Finance to define compensation budgets, scenarios, and forecasting for global planning cycles
• Translate business strategy into actionable compensation programs that attract, retain, and motivate key talent segments
• Provide high-level consultation to HR Business Partners and Business Unit leaders on competitive, equitable, and legally compliant pay practices.
• Lead complex, regional compensation initiatives, including the design of salary structures, market benchmarking strategies, and geographic tier differentials.
• Collaborate closely with the Global Rewards leadership to align Americas programs with global governance frameworks.

• Serve as a technical architect for rewards data, overseeing the end-to-end configuration, testing, and optimization of the annual compensation review process within Workday.
• Drive continuous process improvement and automation across the compensation lifecycle, engineering complex calculations, Workday advanced fields, and streamlined eligibility rules.
• Provide advanced technical oversight for data validation, large-scale data cleansing, and the build-out of interactive, dynamic dashboards to translate raw data into actionable insights for executive leadership.

• Directly manage, coach, and develop a high-performing team of compensation professionals across varying levels.
• Oversee workload distribution and strategic alignment for senior individual contributors, guiding on enterprise-wide data modeling, core cycle planning, total rewards and ad-hoc executive rewards projects.
• Foster a collaborative environment that balances day-to-day business partnering with deep technical data analysis.

What you'll need:

• Education: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, Finance, Mathematics, or a highly quantitative field. Master’s degree or relevant certifications (CCP, Workday Pro) are highly preferred.
• Experience: 10+ years of progressive experience in compensation, total rewards, or financial/people analytics roles, with a minimum of 3-5 years focused on Workday compensation or total rewards management.
• Workday Mastery: Deep technical proficiency in Workday HCM and Workday Advanced Compensation module management (configuration, business processes, and matrix reporting).
• Advanced Data Analytics: Mastery of advanced data modeling concepts, Power Query, Power Pivot, macros (VBA), and advanced functions (e.g., INDEX-MATCH, XLOOKUP).
• Regulatory Knowledge: Deep understanding of US/Americas pay regulations, compliance frameworks (FLSA, state-specific pay transparency laws), and pay equity auditing practices.
• Citizenship: US Citizenship is required.

What will help you on the job:

• Workday HCM, Workday Advanced Compensation, and Workday Pro certifications are highly preferred.
• Deep understanding of Compensation processes and experience delivering Workday-based solutions.
• Experience designing and managing sales compensation plans.
• Ability to navigate complex organizational changes and influence stakeholders at all levels.
• Experience applying advanced analytics, AI, or digital workforce considerations to rewards and workforce strategy.

Salary range: $146,500.00 - $231,000.00 / annually. For specific work locations within San Jose, the San Francisco Bay area and New York City metropolitan area, the base pay range for this role is $181,500.00- $272,500.00/ annually : At Viasat, we consider many factors when it comes to compensation, including the scope of the position as well as your background and experience. Base pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. Additional cash or stock incentives may be provided as part of the compensation package, in addition to a range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits, dependent on the position offered. Learn more about Viasat’s comprehensive benefit offerings that are focused on your holistic health and wellness at https://careers.viasat.com/benefits. EEO statement: