Director/Vice President of Compensation, Human Resources
HarbourVest Partners · Boston, MA · 5 days ago
Hybrid$200k–$210k/yrFull-time
Key Responsibilities
- Design, implement, and evolve compensation structures (base pay, incentives, and other programs) aligned to business initiatives.
- Serve as an advisor on compensation philosophy, market competitiveness, internal equity, and regulatory risk (including the preparation and presentation of executive ready materials).
- Partner with Finance and Legal to ensure global compliance with applicable compensation regulations, disclosure requirements, and governance standards.
- Establish best-in-class processes for annual compensation cycles, incentive planning, market pricing, and job and pay range architecture.
- Responsible for oversight and execution of our annual performance, pay and promotion cycle processes and the effectiveness of our Workday Advanced Compensation tools.
- Lead all aspects of our Job Leveling and Job Family frameworks foundational to our HR infrastructure and the effectiveness of our promotion and compensation programs and processes.
- Assist with incentive plan design work including re-design and administration.
- Partner with Performance, Recruiting and Payroll teammates as well as Finance partners and HR Generalists to ensure proper end-to-end accuracy and efficiency of our compensation programs and data.
- Assist with leading a high-performing compensation team, developing talent and fostering a culture of rigor, innovation, accountability and development!
Pay Equity & Pay Transparency
- Implement global pay equity strategy, including methodology selection, ongoing analyses, remediation planning, and reporting.
- Ensure programs and practices support equitable outcomes in alignment with what we value and legal requirements.
- Lead the company’s approach to global pay transparency laws, including job architecture, pay ranges, disclosures, and manager enablement / training.
Long-Term Incentives & Specialized Programs
- Lead the development and management of our LTI programs.
- Oversee planning, budgeting, execution and participant outcomes in partnership with Finance.
- Ensure programs are competitive, scalable, and clearly communicated.
Nice to have
- Experience with carried interest or similar investment-linked compensation structures.
- Technology, Data & Scalability: Champion the use of Workday technology and automation to drive efficiency, accuracy, and scalability in compensation processes, tracking and administration.
- Develop analytics, dashboards, and scenario models to support decision-making, pay equity and pay for performance analyses; and own data integrity/oversight related to compensation (data audits, integrity, etc.).
- Standardize global compensation processes while allowing for some local market and regulatory nuance.