Sr. Manager, Global Compensation

Who are we?

Smarsh empowers its customers to manage risk and unleash intelligence in their digital communications. Our growing community of over 6500 organizations in regulated industries counts on Smarsh every day to help them spot compliance, legal or reputational risks in 80+ communication channels before those risks become regulatory fines or headlines.  Relentless innovation has fueled our journey to consistent leadership recognition from analysts like Gartner and Forrester, and our sustained, aggressive growth has landed Smarsh in the annual Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing American companies since 2008.

Summary

We are seeking an experienced Global Compensation Manager who will play a critical role in leading and strategically evolving our global compensation program at Smarsh. This is an exciting opportunity for the right candidate. Reporting to the Head of Total Rewards, you will be responsible for influencing the strategic design of our compensation levers that drive meaningful business impact for our US and global workforce. This role is perfect for a seasoned professional with experience in privately-held technology companies seeking the opportunity to have a significant impact on our continued company growth and profitability. You will have significant exposure to our most senior leaders (including C-Suite), HR Business Partners, and you will also work closely with and influence peers across our G&A leadership teams to ensure our programs are understood and administered with excellence and accuracy. This role offers a hybrid work arrangement and is based in Atlanta.

• Build and maintain our market-based compensation program: This role is responsible for building various compensation structures (salary ranges, bonus targets, equity ranges, etc.) that are market-based and aligned with our guiding principles (rewarding high performance & potential, solving for our unique needs, balanced, and internally equitable).  
• Refine our compensation processes and policies to enable us to scale faster: This role will work across our G&A teams to better align our day to day compensation processes with the objectives of simplicity, accountability, and efficiency (e.g., new hire compensation setting, off-cycle compensation adjustments, ongoing analytical tools, forecasting, and planning).
• Maintain ownership for the integrity of our job architecture framework: This role is responsible for ensuring our jobs are leveled consistently and equitably against our job architecture framework. Getting this first step right is a critical foundation for building and maintaining role-based and market-based compensation programs.
• Lead our annual compensation planning cycle: This role will be responsible for leading our annual compensation planning cycle, which takes place in concert with our annual performance management cycle (year-end, in Lattice). The process begins with budgeting in 2H and ultimately runs in Q1 each year.
• Serve as a key stakeholder for our sales incentive programs: This role will be a partner to cross-functional working groups in the design of our sales incentives program – ensuring the programs are aligned with our compensation guiding principles and are benchmarked properly against a defined peer group of similar companies.

• A highly qualified candidate will have 8-12 years of highly relevant, and progressively more complex, experience in global compensation, ideally with at least 3-5 years of experience in a privately-held, global technology company. In addition, highly qualified candidates will possess the following:
• Demonstrated a clear understanding of how to build a market-based compensation framework, including salary ranges, bonus and equity targets.
• Demonstrated impact and experience on how and when to design unique aspects to align with company-specific business needs and challenges
• Proven experience in the implementation and administration of a global job architecture framework
• Understands the regulatory and compliance landscape for compensation programs in the US and abroad (knows when to call in for expert advice from external sources and our legal team)
• Proven experience working across and influencing cross-functionally to ensure that compensation programs are administered as intended (budgeting with finance, accruals with accounting, new hire administration with Talent Acquisition, pay for performance alignment with talent management, etc.)
• Deep understanding and appreciation for the role compensation plays in ensuring companies continue to attract and retain talent in highly competitive talent market in a profitable manner

• Healthcare insurance - We provide medical, dental, and vision insurance, and a flexible spending account that allows you to set aside pre-tax dollars to pay for eligible out-of-pocket expenses.
• Personal time off - A healthy work-life balance is critical to your success at the office. Smarsh offers a “take-what-you-need” time off policy as well as flexible work arrangements
• 401K Match - Smarsh provides a 4% 401K match for which employees are fully vested on day one.
• Sabbatical – The Smarsh sabbatical program provides a time to recharge, to study or simply a time to do something you are passionate about away from the workplace. Employees are eligible after six years of service.
• Recognition - We’re big on kudos for a job well done. Our employee-recognition program enables co-workers to nominate their peers who best embody our core values for recognition

Don't meet every requirement? Apply anyway! We value diverse candidates and encourage applications, even if you don't perfectly match the job description. Studies have shown that some strong candidates may self-select out of the interview process prematurely, at Smarsh we encourage an inclusive, high-performing environment.

Smarsh is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to their race, colour, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran. Smarsh invites all qualified interested applicants to apply for career opportunities. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions. Including frequency of functions

About our culture

Smarsh hires lifelong learners with a passion for innovating with purpose, humility and humor. Collaboration is at the heart of everything we do. We work closely with the most popular communications platforms and the world’s leading cloud infrastructure platforms. We use the latest in AI/ML technology to help our customers break new ground at scale. We are a global organization that values diversity, and we believe that providing opportunities for everyone to be their authentic self is key to our success. Smarsh leadership, culture, and commitment to developing our people have all garnered Comparably.com Best Places to Work Awards. Come join us and find out what the best work of your career looks like.