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 shapeshow 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.
What we offer:
All our positions offer a compensation package that includes equity and robust benefits.Base pay is a single component of Astranis's total rewards package, which may also include equity in the form of incentive stock options, high quality company-subsidized healthcare, disability and life insurance benefits, flexible PTO, 401(K) retirement, and free on-site catered meals.Astranis pay ranges are informed and defined through professional-grade salary surveys and compensation data sources. The actual base salary offered to a successful candidate will additionally be influenced by a variety of factors including experience, credentials & certifications, educational attainment, skill level requirements, and the level and scope of the position.Base Salary$200,000 - $230,000USD
U.S. Citizenship, Lawful Permanent Residency, or Refugee/Asylee Status Required
(To comply with U.S. Government space technology export regulations, applicant must be a U.S. citizen, lawful permanent resident of the United States, or other protected individual as defined by 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3))Our mission and our products are meant to connect the world and everyone in it, regardless of gender, race, creed, or any other distinction. We believe in a diverse and inclusive workplace, and we encourage all people to join our team and bring their unique perspective to help make us stronger.
