Solutions Consultant, Data & Insights

About Payscale
Payscale is the original compensation innovator for organizations who want to scale their business with pay and transform their largest investment into their greatest advantage. With decades of innovation in sourcing reputable data and developing AI-powered tools, Payscale delivers actionable insights that turn pay from a cost to a catalyst. Its suite of solutions — Payfactors, Marketpay, and Paycycle — empower top companies in the U.S. and businesses like Cintas, Leidos, Chipotle, Brookdale Senior Living, Ohio State University, American Airlines, and TJX Companies.

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Job Summary

As a Solutions Consultant, Compensation Data & Insights, your primary responsibility is to help customers understand, trust, and apply compensation data to real business decisions. You partner with our go-to-market organization to help customers evaluate the best data fits for them while clearly articulating how Payscale’s compensation data supports accurate, defensible, and equitable pay outcomes. This role is for someone who is fluent in compensation data, benchmarking logic, survey methodology, Payscale’s unique data set and market pricing conversations—and who can translate that expertise into clear executive-level insight.

What You'll Do
Compensation Advisory
Support conversations focused on how customers price jobs, benchmark roles, manage internal equity, and respond to market movement

Diagnose data quality issues, coverage gaps, and confidence challenges in existing compensation approaches

Advise customers on appropriate data sets and market pricing strategies based on role scope, geography, industry, and maturity

Compensation Data Expertise
Explain compensation data methodology, sources, sample sizes, aging, cuts, and reliability with clarity and credibility

Help customers interpret market ranges, percentiles, and trends to support their ideal compensation strategy

Compare and contextualize different compensation data approaches (Payscale’s data, third party surveys, blended sources, modeled data)

Insight & Value Storytelling
Translate compensation data into narratives that resonate with HR, Finance, and executive stakeholders

Tie market insights to business outcomes such as attraction, retention, pay equity, and cost management

Help customers move from reactive pricing to more proactive, data-informed compensation decisions

Pre-Sales Partnership
Partner with Account Managers, Account Executives and our Customer facing organization to support the data side of deal strategy, technical validation, and executive discussions

Tailor conversations to customer maturity—from foundational benchmarking to advanced market strategy

Support customer evaluation processes with clear, defensible data positioning

What We're Looking For
4–7+ years of experience in compensation, compensation consulting, survey analytics, or data-driven advisory roles

Deep understanding of compensation benchmarking, job pricing, and market data interpretation

Strong ability to explain data concepts to non-technical audiences without oversimplifying

Comfort engaging with senior HR, Total Rewards, and Finance leaders

Experience influencing decisions through insight and credibility

Nice to Have
Background in compensation surveys, consulting firms, or labor market analytics

Familiarity with statistical concepts related to market data (percentiles, distributions, aging)

Experience supporting enterprise-level compensation programs

Prior exposure to pre-sales or customer-facing advisory roles

What Success Looks Like
Customers trust Payscale’s compensation data and understand how to apply it to their pay decisions

Buyers view you as a compensation expert, not a product expert

Conversations shift from tool comparisons to data confidence and decision quality

Deals close with strong executive alignment around compensation strategy

Location
Payscale has an employee centric remote-first model that provides you the flexibility to do your best work in a space that supports you, while also finding time to collaborate in person for the moments that matter.

In our remote-first model, employees can work from the location that works best for them. We do not have centralized corporate offices. Employees can choose to work from home, in company-paid co-working spaces, or any combination of the two that best suits their unique needs.
If you work from home, we recommend ensuring that you can meet the following technology, equipment and workspace requirements:
High-Speed Internet - A stable broadband or fiber connection (satellite is highly discouraged) with a minimum speed of 100 Mbps in a dedicated workspace that has a reliable Wi-Fi signal.

Device for Multifactor Authentication (MFA/2FA) - smartphone, tablet, etc.

When it matters (usually no more than a few times a year) we take the time to gather for in-person events.
Payscale has employees across the US, Canada, UK, The Philippines and Romania however we are currently unable to hire in the Quebec Province, Northern Ireland, and Hawaii.
Benefits and Perks
All around awesome culture where together we strive to live our 5 values:
Data informed decision making.

Customer first. Always.

Succeed together.

Relentless about results. Obsessed with excellence.

Lead the change. Shape the standard.

An open and inclusive environment where you’ll learn and grow through programs and resources like:
Monthly company All Hands meetings

Regular opportunities for executive leadership exposure through things like AMAs

Access to continued learning & development opportunities

Our commitment to a continuous feedback culture which allows us to drive performance and career growth

A growing network of Employee Resource Groups

Company sponsored volunteer hours

And more!

Our more standard benefits
Flexible paid time off, giving you the opportunity to rest, relax and recharge away from work

14 Paid Company Holidays, includes 2 floating holidays (you choose!)

A comprehensive benefits plan including medical, dental, life, vision, disability, and life insurance covered up to 100% by Payscale

Unlimited infertility coverage benefits through our medical plans

Additional supplemental health benefits offered to you and your family

401(k) retirement program with a fully vested immediate company match

16 weeks of paid parental leave for birthing and non-birthing parents

Health Savings Account (HSA) options and company contributions each pay period

Flexible Spending Account (FSA) options for pre-tax employee allocations

Annual remote work stipend to be used on wellness or home office equipment

Equal Opportunity Employer:
We embrace equal employment opportunity. Payscale is committed to a policy of equal employment opportunity for all applicants and employees. It is our policy that employees will not be subjected to unlawful discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran or military status, marital status, sexual orientation, political ideology, and any other basis protected by federal, state, or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including but not limited to: recruitment, hiring, transfers, promotions, training, discipline, termination, compensation and benefits, performance appraisals, education, and social and recreational programs. We know the confidence gap and imposter syndrome can get in the way of meeting spectacular candidates, so please don’t hesitate to apply — we’d love to hear from you. If you have a disability or impairment and need assistance with the application process, please email recruiting@payscale.com for support.

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