Compensation Program Manager

Job description

At Datadog, People Operations is more than just human resources—it’s a data-driven team dedicated to constantly improving the way we hire, develop, and support our most valuable asset: our people. Our People team are strategic problem solvers who work closely with leadership and employees to ensure that Datadog keeps scaling smoothly and remains a great place to work.

At Datadog, we place value in our office culture - the relationships and collaboration it builds and the creativity it brings to the table. We operate as a hybrid workplace to ensure our Datadogs can create a work-life harmony that best fits them.

Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.

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/equity
• Provide operational analysis, reporting, and insights related to compensation programs, trends, market data, and internal equity
• Oversee compensation functionality and data in our 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

Requirements

• Five to seven years or more, of compensation or related experience
• A 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
• 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
• A good understanding of RSUs and other equity offerings