Executive Compensation Director

Location: Alphen aan den Rijn, Netherlands; normal office requirements and possible onsite interviews at a hirify.global office

Company

hirify.global provides professional information, software, and services to organizations and professionals.

What you will do

• Own the enterprise executive compensation philosophy, governance frameworks, and decision guidelines.
• Design, evaluate, and evolve global base pay, short-term incentive, and long-term incentive programs.
• Advise executive leadership, HR, Finance, and divisional stakeholders on executive pay decisions, offers, retention, succession, and complex talent scenarios.
• Interpret market data and internal analytics to guide executive decisions and enterprise trade-offs.
• Lead compensation communication, change leadership, and implementation of global programs.
• Lead, coach, and develop compensation professionals while coordinating matrixed and regional teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resource Management or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 12–15+ years of progressive compensation experience, including leadership of enterprise or global compensation programs.
• Experience leading compensation teams or large-scale enterprise initiatives and influencing executive-level stakeholders.
• Expertise in base pay and incentive compensation design, market benchmarking, executive compensation programs, and global compensation policies.
• Strong technical, mathematical, analytical, consulting, communication, negotiation, and presentation skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite; Workday experience is preferred.

Nice to have

• Compensation professional certification.
• Experience with compensation design for technology organizations and shared services environments.
• Knowledge of HR regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Experience developing complex analytics and improving compensation processes.

Culture & Benefits

• Global, matrixed collaboration across HR, Finance, divisional stakeholders, and the Compensation COE.
• Travel requirement of approximately 5–10%.
• Normal office-based working conditions.
• Interviews must be completed without AI tools or external prompts; virtual backgrounds should be removed, and in-person interviews may be required.

Hiring process

• Interviews assess individual skills, experience, and communication style.
• In-person interviews may be required at a hirify.global office.
• AI-generated interview responses or third-party support may result in disqualification.