Global Compensation Lead at Postman in Bangalore, India

Global Compensation Lead

Location: Bangalore, India

Who Are We?

Postman is the world’s leading API platform, used by more than 45 million+ developers and 500,000 organizations, including 98% of the Fortune 500. Postman is helping developers and professionals across the globe build the API-first world by simplifying each step of the API lifecycle and streamlining collaboration—enabling users to create better APIs, faster.

The company is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Boston, New York, Austin, Tokyo, London, and Bangalore - where Postman was founded. Postman is privately held, with funding from Battery Ventures, BOND, Coatue, CRV, Insight Partners, and Nexus Venture Partners. Learn more at postman.com or connect with Postman on X via @getpostman.

P.S: We highly recommend reading The "API-First World" graphic novel to understand the bigger picture and our vision at Postman.

The Opportunity

At Postman, we’re building for the agentic era, helping organizations harness the power of APIs and AI. As we continue to scale globally, we’re looking for a Global Compensation Lead to support and strengthen our global compensation programs.

In this role, you’ll partner with People, Finance, and business leaders to deliver compensation insights, support global compensation cycles, and ensure our compensation practices remain competitive, equitable, and aligned with business priorities across regions.

What You’ll Do

• Global Compensation Programs: Support and execute compensation cycles across regions, ensuring accuracy, consistency, and alignment with compensation policies.
• Market Benchmarking: Analyze market compensation data to inform salary ranges, pay positioning, and compensation decisions.
• Compensation Analytics: Build reports and analyze salary structures, pay trends, internal equity, and compensation costs to support business decisions.
• Equity Compensation & ESOPs: Support equity compensation programs, including ESOP administration, grant recommendations, vesting schedules, and equity-related reporting.
• Radford & Market Data: Leverage compensation survey data and market benchmarks to evaluate competitiveness and support compensation recommendations.
• Compensation Planning: Partner with People and Finance teams on annual compensation reviews, salary planning, and related initiatives.
• Stakeholder Partnership: Collaborate with People Business Partners and business leaders to provide data-driven compensation guidance across geographies.
• Process Improvement: Strengthen compensation processes, improve data quality, and identify opportunities to streamline reporting and workflows.

About You

• 8-12 years of experience in Compensation, Total Rewards, or Compensation Analytics.
• Experience supporting global compensation programs across multiple regions and geographies.
• Strong hands-on experience with Radford compensation surveys, benchmarking, and market pricing.
• Solid understanding of salary structures, pay ranges, compensation philosophy, and internal equity.
• Advanced Excel and analytical skills, with experience managing large datasets and building compensation models and reports.
• Experience with HRIS and compensation tools, ideally Workday or equivalent platforms.
• Strong analytical judgment, attention to detail, and the ability to translate compensation data into actionable insights.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across global teams.

What Else?

In addition to Postman's pay-on-performance philosophy, and a flexible schedule working with a fun, collaborative team, Postman offers a comprehensive set of benefits, including full medical coverage, flexible PTO, wellness reimbursement, and a monthly lunch stipend. Along with that, our wellness programs will help you stay in the best of your physical and mental health. Our frequent and fascinating team-building events will keep you connected, while our donation-matching program can support the causes you care about. We’re building a long-term company with an inclusive culture where everyone can be the best version of themselves.

At Postman we value in person collaboration. We are in office 5 days a week for all roles based out of our hubs in San Francisco Bay Area, Boston, Austin, New York City, Tokyo and London. For roles based in Bangalore, employees currently work in the office three days a week and will transition to five days per week by the end of the year. We were thoughtful in our approach which is based on collaboration and grounded in feedback from our workforce, leadership team, and peers. The benefits of our in office model will be shared knowledge, brainstorming sessions, communication, and building trust in-person that cannot be replicated via zoom.

Our Values

At Postman, we create with the same curiosity that we see in our users. We value transparency and honest communication about not only successes, but also failures. In our work, we focus on specific goals that add up to a larger vision. Our inclusive work culture ensures that everyone is valued equally as important pieces of our final product. We are dedicated to delivering the best products we can.

Equal Opportunity

Postman is an Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender perception or identity, national origin, age, marital status, protected veteran status, or disability status. Headhunters and recruitment agencies may not submit resumes/CVs through this website or directly to managers. Postman does not accept unsolicited headhunter and agency resumes. Postman will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with Postman.