Global Director, Compensation

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Take charge of Babylist's global compensation strategy, programs, and annual cycles.

• Define the philosophy and design for job architecture, market pricing, promotions, pay adjustments, and equity eligibility.

• Manage change initiatives, communication, and implementation of the non-executive equity refresh program.

• Develop equity and compensation strategies in alignment with the company's evolution.

• Provide guidance to leaders and HR partners on competitive pay decisions, policy interpretation, and exceptions.

• Effectively communicate compensation programs and spearhead the rollout of new initiatives.

• Direct compensation analytics and convert insights into executive-ready recommendations.

• Collaborate with Finance, Payroll, Legal, Talent Acquisition, and Total Rewards on compensation planning, budgets, offer design, pay progression, and workforce planning.

• Oversee executive compensation activities, including offer packages, annual pay reviews, equity recommendations, governance, and Compensation Committee materials.

• Ensure adherence to global compensation standards, pay transparency laws, internal controls, and data privacy obligations.

• Lead and nurture the compensation team, including mentoring the Senior Compensation Manager.

• Equip managers and employees with a clear understanding of compensation programs and their foundational principles.

• Report directly to the SVP of People and collaborate with executives across the organization.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 12 years of experience in compensation or total rewards, encompassing executive compensation, equity, and compensation analytics.

• Proven experience in developing and scaling compensation programs within a technology company.

• Proficient in modeling executive pay, including base salary, bonuses, and equity components.

• Strong understanding of equity compensation, including options, RSUs, vesting design, refresh cycles, eligibility, and dilution tradeoffs.

• Extensive experience in private-company executive compensation and public company modeling.

• Experience with compensation benchmarking, pay equity, range penetration, incentive analysis, forecasting, budgeting, accruals, and workforce planning.

• Direct experience working with tech executive leadership to model compensation for engineering, product, and design roles.

• At least 5 years of experience in people leadership.

• Strong financial acumen, meticulous attention to detail, executive presence, writing skills, and discretion with sensitive information.

• Capability to utilize AI tools to enhance work output.

• Experience presenting directly to a compensation committee is advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance.

• Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts.

• Generous paid parental leave and paid time off (PTO).

• Winter Wonder Week: the entire company enjoys a paid week off at the year's end.

• Remote work stipend to establish your office.

• Benefits for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning.

• Competitive salary and meaningful opportunities for career growth.

• Career advancement and performance-based progression.

• Access to leading tools like Claude and ChatGPT from day one.

• Biannual company gatherings.