Company Context

Meta operates at global scale across products including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Reality Labs, with a large, diverse workforce and complex compensation programs spanning salary, bonus, equity, and retention grants. Senior executives need a reliable way to understand compensation health across the company without digging through disconnected HR, finance, and recruiting reports.

Problem

Today, compensation reporting is fragmented across People Analytics, Finance, and recruiting workflows. Executives can see point-in-time totals, but they struggle to answer higher-value questions such as: where pay is drifting out of band, whether top talent is at retention risk, how compensation differs by org or level, and whether compensation investments are improving hiring and retention outcomes. The CHRO wants a dashboard that supports quarterly talent reviews and annual planning, while the CFO wants tighter visibility into compensation spend and equity dilution.

The challenge is to design an executive-facing compensation metrics dashboard for Meta that is simple enough for senior leaders to use, but detailed enough to drive decisions on headcount planning, pay equity, retention, and budget allocation.

Deliverables

1. Define the primary users and the most important decisions this dashboard should support.
2. Identify the core metrics and views you would include in an MVP versus later versions.
3. Propose how the dashboard should be structured across summary, drill-down, and alerting layers.
4. Explain the key trade-offs you would make around simplicity, sensitivity of data, and actionability.
5. Define success metrics for the dashboard after launch.

Constraints

• MVP must launch within 12 weeks for the next executive planning cycle.
• Compensation data comes from multiple internal systems with inconsistent refresh cadences.
• Access must follow strict role-based permissions because compensation data is highly sensitive.
• The executive audience has limited time; the top-level view should be understandable in under 5 minutes.