Director, Compensation (Biotech)

Location: Hybrid position based out of the San Francisco or Boston office

Base pay: $230,000–$250,000 annually, plus equity, bonus, and benefits.

Company

hirify.global is a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing therapies intended to improve outcomes for people living with breast cancer, including the lead candidate palazestrant and follow-on candidate OP-3136.

What you will do

• Establish and evolve compensation strategy, frameworks, infrastructure, governance, and policies as the organization grows toward commercialization.
• Own broad-based compensation programs for employees at the Vice President level and below, including market benchmarking, job architecture, leveling, salary structures, and annual compensation cycles.
• Advise leaders and People Business Partners on hiring, promotions, internal equity, retention, organizational changes, and compensation planning.
• Develop commercial and sales incentive compensation structures, including metrics, modeling, administration, governance, and effectiveness analysis.
• Support equity compensation administration and executive compensation activities, including Compensation Committee and Board materials.
• Deliver compensation analytics, reporting, compliance, documentation, and audit-ready governance in partnership with HR, Finance, Legal, Payroll, and external consultants.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, finance, accounting, economics, or a related field.
• At least 10 years of progressive compensation experience, including significant hands-on experience in biotechnology, pharmaceuticals, or life sciences.
• Expertise in broad-based compensation for employees at the Vice President level and below, including base pay, incentives, equity, offers, promotions, retention awards, and off-cycle adjustments.
• Advanced knowledge of compensation surveys, market pricing, job architecture, leveling, salary structures, annual planning, quantitative analysis, and financial modeling.
• Experience with compensation benchmarking tools, equity platforms, HRIS systems, compensation analytics, and compensation data governance.
• Advanced Excel skills and working knowledge of pay equity, pay transparency, FLSA classification, documentation, approval controls, and audit readiness.

Nice to have

• MBA or CPA.
• Experience in compensation consulting organizations.
• Experience designing and governing commercial or sales incentive compensation plans.
• Experience with Power Query, macros, or data-visualization tools.

Culture & Benefits

• Open, flexible, and friendly work environment.
• Competitive compensation and benefits package including equity and bonus.
• Equal-opportunity workplace that values diverse expertise, backgrounds, and experiences.
• Opportunities to develop a long-term career while contributing to the development of cancer medicines.