Director, Strategy and Operations - Compensation
Location
San Mateo, CA
Level
Senior
Department
Operations
Type
Full - Time
Salary
Job Description
Posted on:
February 27, 2023
Verkada is looking for a Director, Strategy and Operations to manage special projects in tandem with our CFO. As we begin to grow as a company, we are consistently developing practices to ensure we attract, reward and retain top talent globally. In year 1, you will be responsible for both the evolution of our compensation philosophy, and the execution of that philosophy across the company, globally. You will work closely with the CFO, to whom this role reports, and various levels of management at the company.
Responsibilities
- Compensation strategy & planning: own and refine Verkada’s global compensation strategy for the company as the business scales; develop and document compensation guidelines, policies and ongoing training programs.
- Market analysis: use market intelligence and data to ensure the market competitiveness of our cash pay, equity pay and benefits for our roles globally during our phase of rapid growth. This requires strong ability to source compensation data and bring it together in a way that makes sense
- Functional partnership: partner with Finance, People Partners, Recruiters, Hiring Managers, and Executives on pay decisions, compensation process & policies, and job evaluation.
- Workflow management: build tools and processes to streamline all compensation workflows, from job posting to internal approvals to offer signature
- Reporting: help develop and track critical compensation reporting metrics for the Executive team and managers
- Get sh*t done: since we’re still in scrappy startup mode, there’s a lot of rolling up your sleeves and getting into the weeds to drive direct impact on a daily basis. We knock out today’s problems while also balancing our need to build for the long-term. We accomplish this through hard work, being clear on what’s worth tackling and what’s not, and ensuring a high talent bar
Job Requirements
- Experience:You have expertise in building out a Compensation (or Total Rewards) function form the bottom up and specializing specifically in broad-based compensation You will have gained such experience in house at a corporation, bank, agency, etc. There is a strong preference for someone with compensation experience from a fast growing start up, or technology company that has recently gone public as well as experience in Investment Banking or Management Consulting.
- Raw smarts: we are looking for people with strong business acumen who can approach complex problems and solve them from start to finish
- High attention to detail: at Verkada, we pride ourselves on first principles thinking and sweating the details as the keys to business results. This leader should excel in these areas and set a standard for others.
- Excellent analytics skills: you have a data-driven mentality; you are excited to dig through data to drive evidence-based discussions and decision-making
- Flexibility: you are comfortable working in a fast-paced startup environment that will require you to manage competing priorities, pivot quickly and often, mentor brilliant (but inexperienced) talent junior in their career, and continually build new processes as the company scales.
