HR Compensation & Compliance Specialist

Job Description

HR Compensation and Compliance Specialist | BALANX-Bio

The Tone:
This is an internship / early career role at BALANX-Bio. The company uses AI-driven technology to create the world’s first microbial-based health digital twin system, with a special focus on women’s health. They are building a closed-loop bio-data ecosystem to transform wellness and empower individuals throughout their lives, integrating health, technology, and beauty. This role is crucial for establishing fair, legally compliant, and scalable compensation practices for a growing startup, building essential systems from the ground up.

The TL;DR
• Role: Internship / Early Career
• Type: Temporary (Unpaid)
• Team: Works with HR, Operations, Finance, Legal, and Leadership
• Mission: Establish fair, legally compliant, and scalable compensation practices for a growing startup.

What You’ll Actually Do
• Compensation Framework: Help develop a startup-friendly compensation framework, including role levels, pay ranges, stipend structures, equity considerations, and future paid role planning.
• Policy Documentation: Draft and maintain compensation-related policies, specifically covering pay structure, role classification, review cycles, and approval processes, while also creating internal guidelines for unpaid roles, equity-based arrangements, and contractor status.
• Compliance Review: Review compensation practices for potential compliance concerns related to wage and hour rules, worker classification, internship structure, and contractor arrangements, helping identify risks and supporting leadership in understanding when legal or financial review is needed.
• HR System Building: Help build simple, scalable HR systems for tracking compensation eligibility, role status, contract type, and employee lifecycle changes, recommending practical improvements that fit an early-stage startup environment.
• Operational Audits: Support audits of current roles, agreements, and compensation-related documentation, while collaborating with HR, operations, finance, legal advisors, and leadership to improve people operations.

The Must-Haves
• Background: Others. Education in Human Resources, Compensation, Labor Relations, Business Administration, Employment Law, People Operations, or a related field.
• Experience: Possesses experience supporting compensation planning, pay structures, salary benchmarking, or HR compliance. Demonstrates an understanding of labor law considerations related to compensation, wage and hour rules, worker classification, and unpaid or contractor-based roles. Is comfortable working in an early-stage startup environment with evolving processes.
• Skills: Ability to draft clear HR policies and internal documentation. Exhibits strong attention to detail, organizational abilities, and a commitment to confidentiality. Possesses strong communication skills and the ability to work directly with leadership to make thoughtful compensation decisions.
• Bonus: Has experience in a startup, early-stage company, HR consulting, legal, or people operations environment. Is familiar with startup compensation models, including equity, contractors, interns, and advisors. Has experience building compensation structures or HR policies from scratch, and knowledge of pay equity and compensation benchmarking.