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Salary: USD 143,000 - 190,000 / annual
Datadog is seeking a Compensation Program Manager to join its People Operations team. This role combines compensation expertise, program management, analytics, systems thinking, and stakeholder management to build and scale compensation programs across the organization.
You will own critical compensation processes from strategy and design through execution, communications, enablement, and continuous improvement. This position is ideal for someone who enjoys both strategic problem solving and hands-on program execution, can translate complex compensation concepts into simple experiences for managers and employees, and thrives in a highly cross-functional environment.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and execute scalable compensation programs and processes, including compensation and equity cycles, governance, timelines, and tools, in partnership with People, Finance, HRIS, Payroll, Legal, and business leaders
- Build dynamic compensation models and scenario analyses to support budgeting, workforce planning, and compensation design for cash and equity
- Provide operational analysis, reporting, and insights related to compensation programs, trends, market data, and internal equity
- Oversee compensation functionality and data in systems and partner with HRIS and Analytics to continually enhance compensation and total rewards tooling
- Lead communications and change management for compensation programs and processes, including FAQs, manager resources, training, and enablement
- Partner cross-functionally to drive complex compensation initiatives from design through implementation and continuously improve processes and employee experience
Datadog operates as a hybrid workplace to ensure employees can create a work-life harmony that best fits them. The company values people from all walks of life and encourages applications from those passionate about technology who want to grow their skills.
Requirements:
- Five to seven years or more of compensation or related experience
- Experience managing compensation programs and annual cycles, including equity programs and/or other variable compensation
- Strong analytical rigor and experience building dynamic models and scenario analyses
- Experience implementing and using compensation benchmarking data, market pricing methodologies, reporting, and compensation technology
- Understanding of RSUs and other equity offerings
- Strong business acumen and ability to translate complex compensation concepts into digestible information for leaders and employees
- Systems thinking oriented towards process improvement, scalability, and efficiency
- Advanced capabilities in Excel
- Strong knowledge of Workday functionality and reporting
- Exceptional cross-functional communication and stakeholder management skills, with experience developing communications, training, and change-management materials
- Flexible, low-ego approach to building and scaling the function, comfortable operating across high-level strategic program design and hands-on analytics, reporting, data cleanup, and operational execution
