Aura is on a mission to create a safer internet. In a world where our lives are increasingly online, Aura's category-defining suite of intelligent digital safety products help millions of customers protect themselves against digital threats, and that number is growing rapidly. This is an exciting phase at Aura, and our team of over 400 people worldwide is guided by a leadership slate that's successfully grown startups into multi-billion dollar organizations.
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About the Role:
We are seeking an analytical and detail-oriented Total Rewards Analyst to support the design, execution, and scaling of our compensation and benefits programs. This role will be focused on compensation analytics and program management, while also ensuring the smooth operation of our U.S. benefits programs.
As we prepare for growth, this role will play a key part in evolving our total rewards strategy to support a larger, more complex organization. The ideal candidate brings strong compensation expertise, hands-on benefits administration experience, and familiarity with equity programs in a high-growth environment.
Day to Day:
Compensation
- Conduct market pricing and benchmarking using survey data (e.g., Radford, Mercer, Pave)
- Support and evolve job architecture, leveling frameworks, and salary band structures
- Partner with HRBPs and business leaders to provide data-driven compensation recommendations (offers, promotions, adjustments)
- Drive key compensation cycles (merit, bonus, promotions), including modeling and execution
- Conduct pay equity and internal parity analyses; recommend and support remediation
- Build and maintain compensation models, dashboards, and reporting
- Ensure data integrity across compensation systems and HRIS
- Contribute to compensation strategy as the company scales globally
- Support administration and tracking of equity programs (e.g., stock options, RSUs)
- Assist with equity benchmarking and competitive positioning
- Help develop employee education materials related to equity compensation
Benefits Administration
- Administer day-to-day U.S. benefits programs (health, retirement, leave)
- Act as primary point of contact for employee benefits inquiries and issue resolution
- Manage open enrollment planning and benefits strategy execution
- Ensure compliance with applicable regulations (ERISA, ACA, COBRA)
Global Expansion & Integration Support
- Support total rewards integration efforts related to acquisitions
- Assist in evaluating and harmonizing compensation and benefits programs across geographies
- Partner with internal stakeholders to adapt programs for a global workforce
- Help build scalable processes and documentation for a growing organization
What you bring to the table:
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Finance, Economics, Business, or related field
- 3-5+ years of experience in compensation or total rewards
- Strong expertise in communication, compensation analysis, benchmarking, and program execution
- Advanced Excel skills (modeling, large datasets, pivot tables, lookups)
- Hands-on experience with benefits administration
- High attention to detail and strong data integrity mindset
- Ability to handle sensitive and confidential information with discretion
It would be great if you also had:
- Exposure to equity programs (stock options, RSUs, or similar)
- High ownership and ability to manage multiple projects
- Exposure to global compensation and/or benefits programs
- Strong Analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to translate data into insights
- Experience with HRIS (e.g., Workday, ADP, Rippling) and compensation tools (e.g., Pave, Radford, Mercer)
- Familiarity with data visualization tools (Tableau, etc.)
- Experience leveraging AI tools to streamline analysis, reporting, or employee communications
Aura is committed to offering a generous package to support our employees in all aspects of their life in and out of work. Our packages offer competitive pay, generous health and wellness benefits, retirement savings plans, parental leave and much more! Pay range for this position is $95,000 - 110,000 but may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience and location. This position is remote, but candidates but be US-based.
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Aura is proud to be an equal employment workplace. All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to, and will not be discriminated against based on race, color, ancestry, national origin, religion, age, sex, gender, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability status, veteran status, or any protected category. Beyond equal employment opportunity, Aura is committed to being an inclusive community where all feel welcome.
Aura is dedicated to providing an accessible environment for all candidates during the application process and for employees during their employment. If you need accessibility assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please let your Talent Acquisition Partner know.
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