Director, Total Rewards & Analytics at Astranis
Astranis · San Francisco, United States Of America · On-site
- Office in San Francisco
Astranis builds advanced satellites for high orbits, expanding humanity’s reach into the solar system. Today, Astranis satellites provide dedicated, secure networks to highly-sophisticated customers across the globe— large enterprises, sovereign governments, and the US military. With five satellites on orbit and many more set to launch soon, the company is servicing a backlog of more than $1 billion of commercial contracts.
Astranis is the preferred satellite communications partner for buyers with stringent requirements for uptime, data security, network visibility, and customization.Astranis has raised over $750 million from some of the world’s best investors, from Andreessen Horowitz to Blackrock and Fidelity, and employs a team of 450 engineers and entrepreneurs. Astranis designs, builds, and operates its satellites out of its 153,000 sq. ft. headquarters in Northern California, USA.
Director, Total Rewards & Analytics
As Astranis’s Director of Total Rewards & Analytics, you will lead a business-critical function that shapes how we pay, support, and empower a fast-growing team. You’ll work side-by-side with our SVP of People to create the analytics muscle that helps us make smarter, faster people decisions. This role blends strategy, hands-on execution, and company-shaping impact.
Responsibilities:
- Design and evolve our compensation philosophy, frameworks, and leveling.
- Oversee base pay, equity and benefits offerings, leveraging our tools (Radford, Pave, Salary.com) to benchmark these offerings against our peers.
- Manage benefits strategy, vendor relationships, renewals, and plan optimization.
- Partner with the SVP of People to build the people analytics function - leveraging pre-built dashboards to pull insights and reporting for leaders across the company.
- Partner with Finance on headcount planning, workforce modeling, and budgeting.
- Ensure compliance across jurisdictions; lead audits and policy updates.
- Advise execs and managers on reward decisions, tradeoffs, and market trends.
- Improve systems and data integrity across HRIS, equity platforms, and analytics tools.
- Lead a small team; develop processes that scale with company growth.
Requirements:
- 10+ years in compensation, benefits, or total rewards; strong analytics background.
- Expertise in comp design, equity structures, market data, and benefits regulations.
- Advanced Excel/Sheets; familiarity with reporting dashboards, ability to story tell with data.
- Strong business judgment and ability to translate data into action.
- Experience in a fast-paced environment.
Success looks like:
- Clear compensation frameworks.
- Predictable budgeting.
- Rewards aligned with performance and market reality.
- Leaders making faster, better decisions with your insights.
- Transparency into the workforce through our data.
