Job Description
Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies while ensuring fair pay for all employees?
Syndio is a Series C technology company leveraging advanced technology and responsible AI to accelerate decision-making, streamline compliance, and democratize insights for consistent, equitable compensation practices at scale. Backed by $83M in investments from Bessemer Venture Partners, Voyager Capital, and Emerson Collective, we are expanding our team and products to help companies align their rewards strategies with their business goals.
Our customers are our greatest asset. Syndio partners with many of the world’s most recognized and respected enterprises, helping them implement leading-edge compensation solutions with expert guidance. We analyze pay for over 10 million employees across dozens of countries, ensuring fair, defensible rewards that drive better business outcomes.
Join us in our mission to help companies make smarter pay decisions they can trust
About the roleWe are looking for a Director of Applied AI to lead our Applied AI team of combined Backend and Machine Learning engineers, at a pivotal moment in our evolution. In this role, you’ll ship AI systems to production: building agents, deploying models, and integrating LLMs to help customers and internal users make faster, fairer, and more confident decisions. You’ll guide a team of high-performing engineers while also playing a key role in shaping the technical architecture of our platform.
You will join Syndio at an exciting moment, as we build our vision of Intelligent Pay, an AI native compensation recommendation platform. Your guidance and collaboration in building scalable software engineering solutions for our product suite will have a meaningful impact in helping companies achieve fairness in the workplace.
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Below you'll find an outline of the interview plan for our Director of Applied AI position. Please note that this is what we expect the process to look like; we may ask you for supplemental information or require an additional step before making a final decision.
At Syndio, we're building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the "about you" listed here. We don't expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as you're willing to learn and grow with us.
Employees joining the Syndio team at this early stage of growth will impact this critical social issue and support a growing customer base (including Nordstrom, General Mills, Match Group, and others) to take tangible action on workplace fairness.
Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion, physical disability and age.
Syndio is a technology company that helps companies measure, achieve, and sustain workplace equity. Syndio’s mission is to empower employers to eradicate unlawful pay disparities due to gender, race, and ethnicity and make ongoing compensation decisions that are consistent and equitable. Syndio customers drastically reduce legal risk, save millions in ongoing remediation, and create a positive brand reputation, which helps attract and retain top talent at every level of the business. Over time, we help companies close their pay gap. Syndio is proud to partner with brands – including Salesforce, Nordstrom, General Mills, Nerdwallet, Match Group and many more – who are leading the way in equity and setting the standard for workplace fairness. Syndio pay equity analysis software helps companies quickly analyze and resolve pay gaps, empowering them to do the right thing while doing what’s best for their business. The company license software to companies that are serious about equal pay and help them find and fix pay equity issues, and stay in compliance over time.
