Executive Compensation Director

Location: USA - New York City, NY. Normal office requirements; 5–10% travel. Applicants may be required to appear onsite at a hirify.global office during the interview process.

Salary: $165,400.00–$295,600.00 USD annually, plus bonus eligibility.

Company

hirify.global provides information, software, and services for professional and business customers.

What you will do

• Own and govern the enterprise executive compensation philosophy, frameworks, decision guidelines, and approval protocols.
• Lead the design and continuous evolution of 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, and succession-related compensation.
• Interpret market data and internal analytics to support executive decisions, compensation packages, and enterprise trade-offs.
• Anticipate regulatory and market trends and lead compensation communications, change management, and policy implementation.
• Lead, coach, and develop compensation professionals while providing functional leadership across matrixed global 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, executive compensation programs, market analysis, benchmarking, and long-term incentive plans.
• Strong technical, mathematical, analytical, consulting, negotiation, presentation, and communication skills.
• Knowledge of global compensation policies, HR regulations, process improvement, change management, and shared-services organizations.

Nice to have

• Workday experience.
• Compensation professional certification.
• Experience designing compensation programs for technology organizations.
• Strong creative thinking and interpretation skills.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision plans.
• 401(k), FSA/HSA, and commuter benefits.
• Tuition assistance.
• Vacation, sick time, and paid parental leave.
• Interviews include in-person participation and prohibit AI-generated responses or external prompts.