Director- Compensation

About the Company

We are a global leader in the design, manufacture, and distribution of ophthalmic lenses, frames, and sunglasses. Our portfolio includes over 150 renowned brands spanning frames, lenses, instruments, and both brick-and-mortar and digital distribution across mid-range to premium segments. We serve industry stakeholders in over 150 countries with high-quality vision care products, including iconic brands like Essilor (Varilux, Crizal, Eyezen, Stellest, Transitions), Ray-Ban, Oakley, Persol, and Oliver Peoples. Our retail network offers best-in-class shopping experiences through Sunglass Hut, LensCrafters, Target Optical, and leading e-commerce platforms.

The Shared Services Team enables the EssilorLuxottica collective to achieve their targets by ensuring smooth operations across all business areas. Join our global community of over 200,000 dedicated employees driving the transformation of the eyewear and eyecare industry.

About the Role

The Director, Compensation is a key member of the North America Total Rewards Leadership team. This role delivers strategic compensation partnership, program governance, analytics, and process excellence for assigned business areas. You will partner closely with business leaders, HR Business Partners, Finance, Legal, HR Systems, and global Compensation to design, govern, administer, and continuously improve compensation programs that support business priorities, attract and retain talent, reinforce performance, and ensure scalable, compliant pay practices.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a strategic compensation partner to assigned business areas, providing consultative guidance on pay decisions, organizational changes, job evaluations, market competitiveness, retention needs, and application of compensation programs.
• Lead the design, governance, administration, and continuous improvement of broad-based compensation programs, including base pay, annual bonus, incentive pay programs, and related processes.
• Oversee compensation systems, tools, and process governance, including workflows, documentation, data integrity, reporting, controls, automation opportunities, and partnership with HR Systems to improve scalability and user experience.
• Manage compensation support for annual and recurring processes such as salary planning, incentive planning, market pricing, job architecture, and compensation planning tools and technologies.
• Establish incentive strategy and governance, including incentive design, operational frameworks, performance measures, plan eligibility, documentation, governance structures, and partnership with Finance and commercial teams on cost modeling, accruals, plan funding, and performance tracking.
• Build stronger analytics and insights for leaders and HR partners by translating compensation data, market intelligence, workforce trends, internal equity, and projected outcomes into clear recommendations.
• Establish, monitor, and communicate compensation program metrics to evaluate effectiveness, competitiveness, consistency, cost, process performance, and areas for improvement.
• Ensure compensation programs, processes, and decisions are administered consistently and in compliance with applicable federal, state, provincial, and local laws, regulations, company policies, and governance standards.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Human Resources, Finance, or a related field.
• 8+ years of progressive compensation experience, including plan design, market pricing, salary administration, incentive compensation, analytics, governance, and process management.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office platforms, including advanced Excel and PowerPoint; experience with compensation planning, reporting, and analytics tools.
• Knowledge of applicable federal and state laws, pay transparency requirements, and related compliance considerations.

Preferred Qualifications

• Certified Compensation Professional (CCP) or other relevant Total Rewards certification.
• Experience with incentive design and governance for sales, business-to-business, retail, operations, or field-based populations.
• Experience in wholesale, retail, manufacturing, healthcare, life sciences, consumer, or other large-scale operating environments.

Pay

Pay range: $200,383.60 – $240,000.00. Employee pay is determined by multiple factors, including geography, experience, qualifications, skills, and local minimum wage requirements. In addition, you may be offered a competitive bonus and/or commission plan.

Benefits

Benefits may include health care, retirement savings, paid time off/vacation, and various employee discounts.