Compensation & Benefits Manager

Malt

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Paris hybrid Until 10/4/2026 6+ years exp First posted December 3, 2025 Last posted August 5, 2026
Job description
🪐 Discover our galaxy
 
Join the Future of Work ! Malt is Europe's leading freelance marketplace, connecting over 1,000,000 talented freelancers with 100,000+ companies. Founded in 2013, we're transforming how work gets done through our tech-powered, human-centered platform. What makes us different:
 
- A diverse team of 600 Malters across 6 European countries
- A culture that champions equality (50% of our Comex are women) and inclusive growth
- Backed by top investors including ISAI, Serena Capital, Eurazeo Growth, Goldman Sachs, and BPI
- A mission to give everyone the freedom to work differently
 
Ready to help shape the future of work? Your next chapter starts here! 🪐
 
At Malt we believe that Ambition is the Way, so all lists of missions and responsibilities are non-exhaustive.

Explore your future career 🔭
 
Malt is scaling up fast and we are looking for a Compensation & Benefits (C&B) Manager, that will focus on salary bands, benefits, pay plans, and compensation reviews, reporting to the Performance & Compensation & Benefits Director

As Compensation & Benefits Manager you'll focus. on:

  • Compensation Structure Management: Design, implement, and maintain the company's salary banding and grading structure to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness. Conduct job evaluations and market pricing against industry standards.
  • Annual Compensation Reviews: Lead the annual compensation review cycle (including salary increases, bonuses, and equity grants). Partner with leadership and HRBPs to ensure fair, consistent, and budget-aligned pay plan administration.
  • Benefits Program Oversight: Manage the full range of employee benefits programs (e.g., health insurance, retirement, wellness). Ensure, in partnership with local HRBPs, all programs maintain local regulatory compliance.
  • Policy Development: Develop and document clear compensation policies and guidelines, ensuring transparency and effective communication to employees.
  • Data Analysis & Reporting: Conduct in-depth analysis of compensation data, trends, and forecasts to provide insights and recommendations to leadership. Create dashboards for monitoring pay plan effectiveness, budgeting, and cost management.

About you:

  • Background: 6–9 years of direct experience as a C&B Partner with exposure to compensation and benefits practices within at least two international organizations.

  • Strategic Growth: Proven track record transitioning from policy execution to designing and recommending new compensation structures and benefits programs aligned with evolving business needs.

  • Executive Presence: Demonstrated ability to present complex data to senior leadership and influence key business decisions.

  • BSPCE Equity Schemes: Minimum 2 years of hands-on experience managing BSPCE equity plans.

  • Agile Environment: Proven ability to thrive in highly dynamic, fast-paced environments requiring high reactivity, velocity, and strict accuracy.

  • Drive & Ownership: Strong sense of ownership, high execution velocity, and a proactive, results-oriented mindset.

  • Software Mastery: Hands-on experience using HRIS platforms and dedicated compensation management software.

  • Technical Execution: Skilled in data cleansing, configuring systems for review cycles, and building detailed executive-level dashboards.

How to join the mission? 🚀

  • First call with a Senior Talent Acquisition Manager, to better understand your background, and aspirations and answer your questions.
  • Interview with our People Transformation Director Sandrine Dupuy, your manager, to discuss your experience and strategic vision for the role.
  • Then, you will meet Barbara Marazia CHRO for a Strategic Case Study, then discuss our long-term vision
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Malt is the perfect space to thrive personally and professionally 💫
 
- Onboarding: Before easing into your new role, you’ll spend your first week learning about our culture, products, and services with other new joiners at our office in Paris
- Equity: Every Malter is entitled to stock options 
- Lunch vouchers (legal benefit): €9/day on your Swile card
- Transportation (legal benefit): 50% reimbursement (any type of transport)
- Healthcare insurance (legal benefit) 
- RTT: From 8 to 12 days off per year
- Sports: Company participation to a Gymlib (Wellpass) membership
- Malt sabbatical: Every three years, all Malters are entitled to a one month fully paid sabbatical leave
- Free books: If you’re interested in learning more about any topic relevant to Malt’s business, just tell us the books you’d like to read, and we’ll order them for you—without any questions asked or approval processes to follow
- Remote work: Hybrid policy balancing on-site and home office
- Team building events organized every year
 
Ready? Get your ticket to Malt 🪐 
 
At Malt, we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse workplace. We recruit based on skills, experience, and potential, without any form of discrimination related to age, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity, religion, or disability. Our mission is to create a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and safe to thrive.
 
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About this role

Summary

Manage salary structures, benefits, reviews, policies, and data analysis for HR.

Job title

Compensation & Benefits Manager

Experience level

6-9 years

Minimum experience

6+ years exp

Industry

software

Location requirements

Paris, hybrid remote work allowed

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

salary bandingmarket pricingbenefits managementcompensation policiesdata analysis

Preferred skills

BSPCE equity schemesHRIS platformsdashboard buildinginternational experience

Specializations

compensation structurebenefits programspay reviewspolicy developmentdata analysis
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Paris, France

Hybrid City
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