Director, Compensation, Entertainment & Media with Global Scale
Overview
Director, Compensation will own the annual merit, bonus, and pay-structure programs for a global entertainment and media organization. This role partners with senior leaders to translate business priorities into data-driven compensation solutions across multiple business units. You will build job architecture, salary structures, market benchmarks, pay equity, and incentive programs while leading a small team and ensuring governance. This position combines hands-on execution with strategic partnership and offers exposure to complex, cross-functional programs.
What You'll Do10
- 1Lead the annual merit and bonus planning cycle from timeline, configuration, communications, analysis, and outcomes
- 2Own market pricing, role leveling, career frameworks, and FLSA compliance reviews across multiple business units
- 3Design, implement, and maintain base-pay, variable-pay, and incentive programs aligned with the compensation philosophy and scale
- 4Develop and evolve job architecture, salary structures, and career-level frameworks for internal consistency and growth
- 5Advise senior leaders and People partners on pay decisions, pay equity, performance alignment, and total rewards strategy
- 6Collaborate with People Systems and data teams to improve compensation technology, data integrity, reporting, and usability
- 7Partner with Legal, Finance, and business leadership to improve process quality, governance, and efficiency
- 8Lead cross-functional compensation initiatives and project teams aligned with broader business priorities
- 9Support ongoing development of the compensation function, team capabilities, and operating model
- 10Drive data-driven storytelling to inform executive decisions and policy updates
Requirements10
- 1Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Finance, Business, or related field
- 2At least 10 years of compensation experience including five years of people management and project-team leadership
- 3Deep experience with base and variable compensation and large-scale merit and bonus cycles across diverse business units
- 4Proven success designing compensation programs, job architectures, salary structures, market-benchmarking practices, pay-equity approaches, and incentive programs
- 5Strong analytical, financial-modeling, project-management, process-improvement, and executive-communication skills
- 6Experience with a human capital management platform and compensation-survey data or aggregation tools
- 7Experience in compensation consulting is preferred
- 8Experience with Workday, Workday Advanced Compensation, or CompAnalyst is preferred
- 9Certified Compensation Professional credential or advanced degree is a plus
- 10Experience supporting global, multi-business-unit, or entertainment and media organizations is a plus
Salary Insight
$190 - $225k per year
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