Tauseef is a Partner and growth leader for Mercer’s Career practice in Northern California and Hawaii. His expertise is in translating business strategy into a talent strategy through work design and workforce transformation, rewards effectiveness, people analytics, and digital experiences. Currently based in San Francisco, he has also been based in Mercer's Los Angeles, Dubai, Melbourne, and Houston offices.

Some of his recent client engagements, research, and thought leadership include:

• Serving as an expert on high-technology industry workforce issues;
• Leading Mercer’s global research and advisory practice on pay transparency;
• Revising clients’ job architectures and salary structures to enable a skills-based view of work and rewards;
• Researching skills adjacencies to support organizations with workforce transformation and pay;
• Determining the impact of distributed workforces on pay and talent strategy;
• Helping clients establish sustainable flexible working strategy to enable productivity at scale;
• Leading global annual pay equity analyses across a range of sizes and industries, including the development of “starting pay calculators” for new hires, deconstructing the drivers of pay inequities to drive programmatic change, and communicating in public disclosures;
• Leading workforce analytics projects for clients to determine the impact of rewards and career movements, e.g., promotions and transfers, in predicting turnover to strengthen total rewards strategies;
• Leading employee research using conjoint analysis and digital focus groups at companies, resulting in changes that drive employee rewards resonance;
• Supporting transactions (mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs) with a workforce lens.

Tauseef frequently presents and publishes on contemporary topics and his insights have been featured across media sources such as Axios, Bloomberg, CNBC, CNN, Fast Company, Financial Times, Forbes, The Information, and The Wall Street Journal. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from Claremont McKenna College, in Claremont, California. You can connect with him @Tauseef_R on X or via https://www.linkedin.com/in/tauseefrahman on LinkedIn.