Waabi, founded by AI visionary Raquel Urtasun, is the leader in Physical AI. With a world-class team, we're unlocking the next era of autonomous transportation with technology that's powering commercial autonomous trucks and robotaxis. Waabi is backed by and partners with world leaders in AI, automotive, logistics, and deep tech.
With offices in Toronto, San Francisco, Dallas, and Pittsburgh, Waabi is growing quickly and looking for diverse, innovative and collaborative candidates who want to impact the world in a positive way. To learn more visit: www.waabi.aiAbout the role
Waabi continues to scale its breakthrough technology into commercial deployment, and how we attract, reward, and retain exceptional people will be central to the ongoing growth and innovation. This role directly shapes that story: understanding where the business is going and ensuring our compensation structure continues to support that trajectory. You'll be responsible for designing for the current and the future while also being the trusted expert for employees, managers, executives, and company leadership when it comes to our compensation approach and program.
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Anchor compensation in the business trajectory. Build a deep understanding of Waabi's growth path, including headcount plans, commercialization milestones, geographic expansion, and funding outlook, and use it to guide compensation decisions.
Design the compensation structure of the future and the plan to get there. Define how base, equity, and variable pay work together to support where the business is headed. Understand today’s structure, set the long-term philosophy, ranges, and grant guidelines, then lay out the roadmap and sequencing to evolve if needed.
Own the end-to-end annual compensation cycle, including administering the compensation tool and partnering with managers and senior leaders to plan outcomes for their teams. Streamline and scale the process, including through AI tools where they add value.
Lead market benchmarking for all roles across Waabi's locations, deeply understanding the job architecture and talent marketplace, to effectively complete job matching, survey submissions, and recommending updates to cash and equity ranges.
Build bottoms-up compensation forecasts with Finance, modeling spend and equity usage against the business plan. Own a variety of modeling and analysis projects to inform decision making.
Lead compensation enablement and education across the organization. Be the single owner of how Waabi teaches compensation:
Training managers on the structure, philosophy and how pay decisions are made
Helping employees understand the value and mechanics of their total compensation, including stock options
Equipping Recruiting to structure competitive offers
Building employee communications that tie it together
Communicate and advise across company leadership. Translate complex compensation topics into clear recommendations and trade-offs for the executive team. Manage p