Director, Total Rewards & Analytics

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 shapes how 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—$230,000 USD

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.