
Software Development · 10k people
Compensation Program Manager
Posted 8 Oct
What’s this role about? The Compensation Program Manager will design and execute scalable compensation programs, including equity cycles and budgeting models. They will also provide operational analysis and drive cross-functional initiatives to improve compensation processes and employee experience.
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Company
About Datadog Datadog is the essential monitoring platform for cloud applications. We bring together data from servers, containers, databases, and third-party services to make your stack entirely observable. These capabilities help DevOps teams avoid downtime, resolve performance issues, and ensure customers are getting the best user experience.
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Datadog provides cloud-scale monitoring and security for metrics, traces and logs in one unified platform.

Responsibilities
- As a Compensation Program Manager, you will combine compensation expertise, program management, analytics, systems thinking, and stakeholder management to help build and scale our compensation programs. You will own critical compensation processes from strategy and design through execution, communications, enablement, and continuous improvement.
- This role 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.
- 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.
- 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
Qualification
- 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
- Strong business acumen and the ability to translate complex compensation concepts into digestible information for leaders and employees
- A “systems” thinker 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
- Datadog values people from all walks of life. We understand not everyone will meet all the above qualifications on day one. That's okay. If you’re passionate about technology and want to grow your skills, we encourage you to apply.
Benefits
- New hire stock equity (RSUs) and employee stock purchase plan
- Continuous career development and pathing opportunities
- Product training to develop an in-depth understanding of our product and space
- Best in breed onboarding
- Internal mentor and buddy program cross-departmentally
- Friendly and inclusive workplace culture
- Benefits and Growth listed above may vary based on the country of your employment and the nature of your employment with Datadog.
- Datadog offers a competitive salary and equity package, and may include variable compensation. Actual compensation is based on factors such as the candidate's skills, qualifications, and experience. In addition, Datadog offers a wide range of best in class, comprehensive and inclusive employee benefits for this role including healthcare, dental, parental planning, and mental health benefits, a 401(k) plan and match, paid time off, fitness reimbursements, and a discounted employee stock purchase plan.
- The reasonably estimated yearly salary for this role at Datadog is
- $143,000—$190,000 USD
- About Datadog
- Datadog is the leading observability and security platform for the AI era, providing businesses with unified visibility across the technology stack to manage complexity at scale. It brings applications, infrastructure, data, models, and security into one place, using AI to detect and resolve issues before they impact customers. Trusted globally by Fortune 500 companies and high-growth AI leaders, Datadog enables businesses to move faster with clarity and confidence. Learn more about #DatadogLife on Instagram, LinkedIn, and Datadog Learning Center.
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