Senior Compensation Analyst

DLR Group is an integrated design firm with a promise to elevate the human experience through design. This fuels the work we do around the world and inspires our mission to improve the lives of our clients, our communities, and our planet. If this sparks your interest, you’re in the right place.

We have an opening for a Senior Compensation Analyst. This role can be based in the following cities.

• Minneapolis

Position Summary:

As the Senior Compensation Analyst for DLR Group you’ll serve as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert on compensation programs and practices, playing a critical role in shaping how the organization attracts, retains, and rewards talent. In this role, you’ll independently lead comprehensive compensation analyses, provide thoughtful, data-driven recommendations on pay decisions, and partner closely with HR Business Partners and business leaders to support competitive, equitable, and compliant compensation outcomes. As the owner of key compensation processes, you’ll apply sound judgment in complex and nuanced situations while contributing to the continuous improvement of compensation programs, tools, and practices.

Our Human Resources team has been a rapidly growing discipline at DLR Group over the last five years and in this new role you’ll help pave the way in continuing to mature our HR function. You’ll join a friendly and humorous HR team that truly partners with the enterprise. We have a fun talented team that loves collaborating celebrating and helping each other succeed. If you are eager to take on new challenges and initiatives bring your compensation expertise to make meaningful impact felt across the firm that will elevate the human experience. If this sounds like an environment, you will thrive in we can’t wait to hear from you and look forward to talking soon!

What you will do:

• Design, implement, and continuously enhance base pay, incentive compensation, and job architecture programs aligned with overall business strategy.
• Ensure consistent role placement, leveling, and compensation decisions across the organization, including support for mergers and acquisitions(M&A) integrations.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders on compensation-related decisions, including offers, promotions, and job changes.
• Provide data-driven insights, financial modeling, and actionable recommendations to inform compensation decisions and leadership discussions.
• Ensure compliance with applicable compensation-related laws and regulations, including pay transparency and equity requirements.
• Develop, maintain, and communicate compensation guidelines, governance practices, and supporting documentation.
• Continuously improve compensation processes, tools, and reporting to increase consistency, efficiency, scalability, and effectiveness.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business Administration, or related field.
• 5+ years of relevant professional experience
• Deep knowledge of compensation principles, practices, and methodologies.
• Strong understanding of FLSA and other compensation-related laws and regulations.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including modeling, analysis, and data interpretation.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite or similar tools.
• Knowledge and experience using HR reporting systems and compensation-related tools to support analysis and decision-making.
• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to independently assess and resolve complex compensation issues.
• Proven sound judgment with an understanding of the downstream organizational and employee impact of decisions.
• Exceptional written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to advise, influence, and partner at all levels of the organization.
• Dynamic and collaborative team player who thrives in a fast-paced environment, adapts to shifting priorities and ambiguity in a high-growth company.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience supporting organizational growth, transformation, or mergers and acquisitions (M&A), including integration of compensation programs.
• Experience working in complex, matrixed organizations with multiple job families and career paths.
• Background in architecture, engineering, construction (AEC) industry, consulting, or professional services environments.

Our comprehensive Benefits at DLR Group include medical, dental, vision, disability, wellness programs, flex spending, paid holidays, and paid time off. We also offer a 401(k) plan, employee stock ownership, and bonus opportunities. Compensation considerations are based on location, experience, and skills. The suggested pay range for this position is:

Pay Range$85,000—$130,000 USD

DLR Group is an integrated design firm delivering architecture, engineering, interiors, planning, and building optimization for new builds, renovations, and adaptive reuse projects.

We are 100% employee-owned: every employee is literally invested in our clients’ success. At the core of our firm are interdisciplinary teams engaged in every step of project lifecycles. Our teams champion true collaboration, open information sharing, shared risk and reward, value-based decision making, and proficient use of technology to deliver exceptional design. We are pursuing the goals of the 2030 Challenge, the ME2040, and the SE2050, and are an initial signatory of the China Accord and the AIA 2030 Commitment.

Through our values – commitment, creativity, environmental stewardship, fun, integrity, ownership, sharing, teamwork – we elevate the human experience through design, together.

DLR Group follows a four-day in-office work model, with employees having the flexibility to work somewhere other than the office on Fridays.

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action/M/F/Veteran/Disabled employer.