Are you excited to be a part of a dynamic and growing global compensation and total rewards team?
Do you want to enhance your leadership and corporate finance experience with a technology company?
Join our Total Rewards Team!
As a technology leader, we believe attracting, rewarding, and retaining world-class executive talent is central to our continued success. We're looking for a Director to lead our strategy around executive rewards, equity design and utilization, and governance.
Partner with the best
The Director of Executive and Equity Compensation will own the ongoing execution and periodic redesign of compensation programs for our executive team.
As an Executive and Equity Compensation Director, you will be responsible for:
- Supporting the strategy, design, implementation, and communication of executive compensation programs.
- Providing strategic guidance leadership and preparing materials, benchmarking, and recommendations for executive pay decisions.
- Owning and partnering in the development of the Compensation Discussion & Analysis (CD&A) and related SEC filings.
- Partnering with compensation team on initiatives, including annual compensation planning, bonus program and equity strategies / budgets.
- Partnering with Finance/Legal teams to ensure compliance with SEC, IRS, and public company governance requirements.
- Designing and optimizing corporate equity compensation strategies that support recruitment, motivation, retention of talent globally
- Monitoring and responding to proxy advisor guidelines and shareholder expectations on pay practices and governance.
- Staying current on emerging compensation trends in the technology industry and recommend practices to enhance our programs.
Do what you love
To be successful in this role you will:
- Have 10+years of progressive compensation experience and a Bachelors degree
- 5+ years focused on executive and equity compensation in the technology industry
- Have experience working with Compensation Committees and preparing materials for Board-level review, including partnering with external consultants.
- Show a proven track record of successful proxy preparation and managing external compensation consultants.
- Have a deep understanding of tech-sector equity practices, including RSUs and performance equity design.
- Bring an executive presence and excellent communication skills, capable of engaging with C-suite and Board members.
- Show proficiency in Excel and HRIS/compensation tools (e.g., Radford, Oracle Cloud, etc.).
Work in a way that works for you
FlexBase, Akamai's Global Flexible Working Program, is based on the principles that are helping us create the best workplace in the world. When our colleagues said that flexible working was important to them, we listened. We also know flexible working is important to many of the incredible people considering joining Akamai. FlexBase, gives 95% of employees the choice to work from their home, their office, or both (in the country advertised). This permanent workplace flexibility program is consistent and fair globally, to help us find incredible talent, virtually anywhere. We are happy to discuss working options for this role and encourage you to speak with your recruiter in more detail when you apply.
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At Akamai, we're curious, innovative, collaborative and tenacious. We celebrate diversity of thought and we hold an unwavering belief that we can make a meaningful difference. Our teams use their global perspectives to put customers at the forefront of everything they do, so if you are people-centric, you'll thrive here.
About us
Akamai powers and protects life online. Leading companies worldwide choose Akamai to build, deliver, and secure their digital experiences helping billions of people live, work, and play every day. With the world's most distributed compute platform from cloud to edge we make it easy for customers to develop and run applications, while we keep experiences closer to users and threats farther away.
