About Ramp

Ramp is building the smart infrastructure for finance teams, embedded in the transaction flow of every dollar a business spends. We automate how over $200B in annualized spend flows in and out of 70,000+ companies: authorizing payments, flagging risk, categorizing spend, and closing books.

The problems are high-stakes, data-dense, and unforgiving.

We hire people with high agency and high urgency. We look for slope over intercept. We care less about where you trained and more about what you’ve built. At Ramp, everyone is a builder who owns problems end to end and makes consequential decisions that shape the outcome.

The median Ramp customer saves 5% and grows revenue 16% in their first year – far in excess of businesses operating without Ramp. We believe every ambitious company deserves the same.

If you want to build systems that directly shape how companies move and manage billions, Ramp is the place to do it.

About the Role

Ramp is hiring a Business Operations Lead, Compensation & Equity to help build the next stage of our compensation function. This is a senior individual contributor role with exposure to company-level decisions and frequent partnership with the executive team and leaders across People, Finance, Legal, Talent, and the business. You will not manage a team, but you will operate as a thought partner and owner for some of Ramp's most important people and business decisions.

This role works on high-judgment, high-impact questions that sit within a few steps of Ramp's senior leadership team. You will work directly on issues that affect hiring strategy, retention, performance, equity planning, international expansion, executive decision-making, and the employee experience. For the right person, this is a way to build rare expertise in compensation and equity while developing the judgment and company context to take on broader operating roles over time.

You do not need to be a career compensation specialist. You do need to be analytically exceptional, sharp in ambiguous problems, able to earn trust with executives and cross-functional partners, and excited to go very deep in a domain where details matter. You should also be comfortable using AI to build, automate, and improve your own work. This role sits at the intersection of business strategy, finance, people strategy, AI, and company operating rhythms.

What You'll Do

• Lead high-priority compensation and equity projects from problem definition through analysis, recommendation, stakeholder alignment, and execution.

• Build analytical models and decision frameworks for compensation bands, equity grants, refresh programs, promotion cycles, retention offers, international compensation, incentive structures, and executive-level scenarios.

• Partner with leaders across People, Talent, Finance, Legal, Sales, Product, Engineering, and executive leadership to translate complex compensation questions into clear, practical recommendations.

• Help run and improve major company-wide compensation processes, including merit cycles, promotion cycles, equity refreshers, offer governance, and special compensation reviews.

• Develop tools, templates, dashboards, and workflows that make compensation decisions faster, more accurate, and more consistent as Ramp grows.

• Use AI to remove manual work from the compensation function: pulling relevant context, flagging exceptions, drafting decision materials, and automating repeatable analysis.

• Pressure-test compensation and equity philosophy against market data, hiring needs, retention risk, budget constraints, and internal equity.

What You Need

• 4-8 years of experience in business operations, corporate strategy, consulting, finance, people strategy, total rewards, or another analytical operating role, ideally in a high-expectation environment with senior stakeholders, fast timelines, and ambiguous problems.

• Exceptional analytical and structured problem-solving skills, including strong Excel / Google Sheets modeling. You can take a messy question, identify the real decision, break it into the right components, and build a path to an answer.

• Experience building executive-facing analyses, operating models, decision memos, or board-level materials.

• Practical AI fluency. You should be comfortable using AI tools to build, prototype, automate, and improve workflows, with good judgment about where AI helps and where human judgment is required.

• Strong communication and stakeholder management skills. You can simplify complex or sensitive topics for executive and non-technical audiences, influence without authority, keep senior partners aligned, handle pushback, and know when to escalate versus when to drive independently.

• High emotional intelligence and discretion. This role will touch compensation, equity, performance, retention, and other sensitive employee matters.

• Low ego, high ownership, strong business judgment, and real interest in compensation, equity, talent markets, and how people systems shape company performance.

• Ability to work onsite from Ramp's New York office three or more days per week.

Nice to Have

• Experience in a client service, strategy, finance, or operating environment where you owned complex workstreams and advised senior stakeholders.

• Experience in compensation, equity, total rewards, people analytics, workforce planning, sales compensation, or executive compensation.

• Experience at a high-growth technology company, fintech company, or late-stage private company.

• Familiarity with SQL, Python, or lightweight automation tools.

• Exposure to talent strategy, performance management, org design, or financial planning.

Benefits available to all full-time Ramp employees (Global)

• Flexible PTO

• Centralized home-office equipment ordering

• Health and wellness stipend

• Budget for intra-office travel

• Weekly coffee stipend

United States

• 100% medical, dental & vision insurance coverage for you, with partial coverage for dependents

• One Medical annual membership

• 401(k), including employer match on contributions made while employed by Ramp

• Fertility HRA (up to $10,000 per year)

• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay

• Pet insurance

• In-office perks: lunch, snacks, drinks, and more

• Relocation expense coverage to NYC or SF (if needed)

Canada

• Group medical, dental, and vision coverage through Sun Life

• Life, AD&D, and disability coverage

• Fertility drug coverage (up to $4,000 lifetime)

• Group Retirement Plan with employer match (RRSP + DPSP)

• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay, with additional time available at reduced pay

• Employee Assistance Program and virtual care through Lumino Health

United Kingdom

• Private medical insurance through Freedom Elite

• Virtual GP and at-home care via eMed x Livi

• Workplace pension through Penfold, with salary sacrifice option

• Parental leave: up to 16 weeks (birthing + bonding) or 8 weeks (bonding only) at 100% pay with additional time available at reduced pay

Referral Instructions

If you are being referred for the role, please contact that person to apply on your behalf.

Other notices

Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.

Beware of recruiting scams: Ramp will only contact you through official @Ramp.com email addresses and will never ask for payment or sensitive personal information during the hiring process.

Ramp Applicant Privacy Notice

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At Plaid, our mission is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. There has never been a better time than now to start building the future of fintech with us. Plaid powers the tools millions of people rely on to live a healthier financial life. We work with thousands of companies like Venmo and SoFi, several of the Fortune 500, and many of the largest banks to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use. Plaid’s network covers 11,000 financial institutions across the US, Canada, UK and Europe. Founded in 2013, the company is headquartered in San Francisco with offices in New York, Washington D.C., London and Amsterdam.

The BizOps team is focused on solving some of Plaid's most pressing business issues. We are a small team of high-impact, low-ego generalist problem solvers. This role partners directly with leaders across Product and GTM on a mix of strategic and operational work with a direct, quantifiable impact on our customers, partners, and P&L. You will work on problems that directly shape how Plaid operates across its largest revenue lines and most critical partnerships - owning analysis, operating cadences, and cross-functional projects that span Product, GTM, Engineering, Finance, Legal, and Partnerships. BizOps is a launchpad: past team members have gone on to leadership roles in Product, GTM, and operational functions across Plaid. The role requires someone who is highly analytical, approaches problems in a structured manner, and is proactive in the face of ambiguity.

Responsibilities:

• Acting as the strategic and operational backbone for a Product or GTM organization - your job is to identify the highest-leverage opportunities and drive them to clean outcomes

• Leading important product strategy and cross-functional work that doesn’t sit neatly within one team or function, such as launching new products, improving go-to-market motions, or accelerating revenue

• Owning foundational operating rhythms - monthly business reports, QBRs, OKRs and KPIs, executive reporting - and evolving them as the business scales

• Building out dashboards, metrics, and success measures that give leadership visibility and enable data-driven decisions

• Using AI tools and agents as a default part of how you work - not as an experiment, but as a force multiplier

Qualifications:

• 6–11 years in management consulting, investment banking, and/or operating roles (BizOps, Strategy & Ops, Finance)

• Strong analytical and structured-thinking skills; comfort translating ambiguity into frameworks, plans, and decisions

• High agency, sense of ownership, and willingness to roll up your sleeves

• Ability to build relationships at all levels and drive cross-functional teams to action

• Familiarity with AI tools and agents to accelerate workflows is a plus

• Knowledge of SQL and Tableau preferred

• Experience in fintech, payments, or high-growth SaaS preferred

Our mission at Plaid is to unlock financial freedom for everyone. To support that mission, we seek to build a diverse team of driven individuals who care deeply about making the financial ecosystem more equitable. We recognize that strong qualifications can come from both prior work experiences and lived experiences. We encourage you to apply to a role even if your experience doesn't fully match the job description. We are always looking for team members that will bring something unique to Plaid!

Plaid is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and values diversity at our company. We do not discriminate based on race, color, national origin, ethnicity, religion or religious belief, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, transgender status, sexual stereotypes, age, military or veteran status, disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics. We also consider qualified applicants with criminal histories, consistent with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Plaid is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities in our recruiting process. If you need any assistance with your application or interviews due to a disability, please let us know at accommodations@plaid.com.

Please review our Candidate Privacy Notice .

Additional compensation in the form(s) of equity and/or commission are dependent on the position offered. Plaid provides a comprehensive benefit plan, including medical, dental, vision, and 401(k). Pay is based on factors such as (but not limited to) scope and responsibilities of the position, candidate's work experience and skillset, and location. Pay and benefits are subject to change at any time, consistent with the terms of any applicable compensation or benefit plans.

The Chief Business Office (CBO) Business Operations team is seeking a Senior Business Operations Manager to drive financial rigor, operational consistency, and strategic alignment across day-to-day operations for the CBO Organization. We are looking for a self-motivated, deeply analytical, and high-energy professional to design, own, and optimize critical business processes, financial frameworks, and strategic initiatives that support the Chief Business Officer (CBO) organization.

You are a strong self-starter who is expected to operate with high autonomy, maintain rigorous accountability, and serve as a proactive strategic thought partner to leadership. You excel at translating broad goals into structured operational frameworks, managing senior stakeholder relationships, and handling sensitive company data with absolute discretion and confidentiality.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

• Drive full program ownership for CBO budgets, including AI-specific costs and ROI, and tie back to broader LRP financial process and models, establishing end-to-end operational workflows, financial discipline, and strategic accountability across the organization
• Lead budget allocation recommendations and scenario modeling to provide leadership with data-driven alternatives and impact analyses during strategic planning pivots
• Architect and deliver Long Range Plan (LRP) and Annual Planning Financial inputs for the Chief Business Officer, collaborating closely with strategic stakeholders to build multi-year financial projections that align with overarching corporate visions
• Drive high-impact strategic initiatives using program management best practices, ensuring complex, cross-functional programs are delivered on time, within scope, and aligned with core leadership objectives
• Streamline core operational processes and infrastructure by evaluating and implementing AI tools and automated workflows that scale efficiency, eliminate functional silos, and track ROI
• Lead ongoing change management and organizational agility, building robust mitigation strategies to navigate risks and blockers to drive business outcomes

WHO YOU ARE

• Bring 7+ years of experience in Business Operations, Program Management, Strategic Finance, Strategy Consulting, or a highly analytical corporate strategy role within a fast-paced, scaling environment
• Demonstrate high autonomy and strong strategic partnership skills, with a proven history of acting as a trusted advisor to organizational leadership and driving complex programs end-to-end with minimal guidance, driving business outcomes
• Exhibit advanced financial and operational rigor, backed by deep financial acumen and a track record of driving complex annual planning processes, managing multi-million dollar budgets, and executing data-driven resource scenario modeling
• Possess a demonstrated mastery over strategic initiatives, with extensive expertise in architecting and steering large-scale, cross-functional programs using industry-standard program management frameworks and best practices
• Maintain strong executive presence and stakeholder influence, paired with exceptional communication skills and a natural ability to synthesize complex operational or financial narratives into clear insights for C-suite and executive leadership
• Bring a forward-thinking approach to tech strategy and AI fluency, including practical experience evaluating, implementing, and scaling AI tools and automated workflows to optimize team efficiency
• Model uncompromising accountability, discretion, and meticulous attention to detail, alongside superior organizational skills and a proven ability to manage highly sensitive company and financial records with absolute confidentiality, skills, and a passion for building standardized, scalable financial processes
• Energetic and adaptable approach to managing a fluid portfolio of projects across global teams in multiple time zones
• Willing to travel as required by business needs

For candidates based in the United States, the pay range for this position at the start of employment is expected to be between $118,000 and $186,000/year, with an expected On Target Earnings (OTE) between $133,000 and $210,000/year (including bonus or commission). Your exact offer may vary depending on multiple individualized factors, including market location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. In addition to cash compensation, this role qualifies for a comprehensive Total Rewards package that includes equity grants of restricted stock (RSUs) so that you will own a piece of our company.

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