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TL;DR: Ravio's job catalogue is expanding from 107 to 300+ positions to unlock benchmarks for up to 3,000 roles across 46 countries. So you can hire the talent you need to thrive – from Financial Crime to Comp & Benefits Managers.
As a tech business starts to scale rapidly, something predictable happens.
Roles that once lived under broad titles fragment. You need specialists: Technical Recruiters, Fraud and Financial Crime, and Compensation and Benefits Managers. Your comp benchmarks need to keep up – or you're flying blind on what to pay the teams you need to thrive.
Ravio was built for that moment.
When we launched, our goal was to set a new standard for compensation benchmarking: benchmarks built on verified HRIS data, expert in-house levelling and mapping, and rigorous human-led validation by data scientists. Robust enough for compensation experts. Accessible by everyone.
We started with deliberate focus: 100 roles critical to European tech companies.
Today, we're announcing a milestone that reflects how our community has grown and how our customers have scaled their organisations.
A job catalogue of 300+ positions – triple the coverage, built role-by-role as real companies grew more specialised, more regulated, and more operationally complex.
Ravio is trusted by over 1,500 companies, from fast-scaling startups to established leaders like Airwallex, Wise, and Octopus Energy.
As these companies expanded into regulated markets, scaled their physical operations, and built specialist teams, patterns emerged. Where roles genuinely specialised and we have the data to produce quality benchmarks, we've expanded our coverage.
Scaling tech companies follow consistent patterns:
That's where our expanded job catalogue delivers clarity.
So, whether you're expanding into regulated markets, scaling your physical operations, or building out AI infrastructure, we benchmark the teams you need to scale:
Regulated & Risk: Financial Crime and Credit Risk – benchmarked as distinct roles, not collapsed into generic "Risk"
Operations & Supply Chain: Forecasting & Demand Planning, Supply Quality Assurance, Procurement – reflecting real operational ownership
AI & Platform Engineering: AI Engineering, Platform Engineering, DevOps – infrastructure roles that fragment as companies build and scale tech stacks
Revenue & Professional Services: Revenue Operations, Sales Operations, Pre-Sales Engineering, Implementation Consulting – enabling accurate incentive design and customer-facing specialists
Finance Specialisations: Billing, General Accounting, Payroll, Tax, Treasury – specialist roles with distinct market rates
...plus expanded coverage across Compensation and Benefits, Creative Production, Legal, Executive Leadership, and Board-level roles.
As organisations mature, roles specialise. When benchmarks don't, compensation decisions get blurred, mispriced, or misaligned.
Your benchmarks should evolve at the same pace as your organisation.
Every new role in Ravio meets the same standard we've held from day one:
We've proven that scale doesn't require compromise. Granularity and quality can grow together.
Our job catalogue isn't designed to be the largest. It's designed to be the most relevant for tech companies scaling toward 5,000+ employees.
As our customers continue to scale into new markets, geographies, and operational complexities, Ravio's benchmarks will continue to evolve with them.
Same methodology. Same quality bar. Built for what comes next.
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