Senior Equity Administrator

Location: El Segundo, California, United States; onsite role.

Salary: $105,000–$145,000 base compensation annually, excluding bonus, equity, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a late-stage, Series D defense technology company developing products powered by Coherent Distributed Networks for warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams.

What you will do

• Administer equity incentive plans end to end, including stock options, RSUs, early-exercise awards, restricted stock, ESPP, and executive programs.
• Process grants, exercises, cancellations, forfeitures, repurchases, transfers, vesting, expirations, post-termination exercise windows, and equity-related onboarding and offboarding activities.
• Maintain the fully diluted cap table, stock ledger, legal records, stockholder records, securities records, and transfer restrictions.
• Support preferred financings, SAFE and convertible note conversions, option pool increases, secondary transactions, M&A diligence, and IPO-readiness workstreams.
• Help execute tender offers and secondary liquidity programs, including eligibility analysis, communications, documentation, platform setup, proration, settlement, withholding, reporting, and funds flow.
• Prepare stock-based compensation reports, support payroll and tax reporting, coordinate compliance filings, respond to auditors, answer employee questions, and improve equity processes and controls.

Requirements

• 3–5 years of equity administration experience, including experience at a venture-backed or privately held company.
• Hands-on experience managing a private-company cap table and equity plans using a platform such as Carta, Shareworks, Ledgy, or Pulley.
• Direct experience supporting at least one preferred financing round and at least one tender offer or structured secondary transaction.
• Working knowledge of ISOs, NSOs, early exercise, 83(b) elections, 409A valuations, Rule 701, Section 16 basics, and ASC 718 stock-based compensation accounting.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, including pro forma and waterfall modeling, with strong data reconciliation habits.
• Exceptional attention to detail and discretion when handling confidential compensation and ownership information.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including the ability to explain complex equity concepts to employees at all levels.
• A collaborative, service-oriented mindset and comfort working across Finance, Legal, People, and external advisors.

Nice to have

• Certified Equity Professional designation or progress toward it.
• Experience with international equity grants and mobile-employee tax considerations.
• Exposure to IPO readiness, transfer agent onboarding, or public-company equity administration.
• Familiarity with ESPP design and administration.
• Experience integrating ERP or HRIS systems such as NetSuite, Workday, or Rippling with equity platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Onsite work with free daily lunch, a fully stocked kitchen, and a casual dress code.
• Medical, dental, and vision benefits fully paid by the company.
• 401(k) with a 50% company match up to 6% of pay, plus FSA, HSA, and life insurance.
• Unlimited PTO.
• Competitive base salary, pre-IPO stock option grants, relocation assistance, and annual bonuses planned for the future.