Head of Global Compensation, OneTrust
$189.9-284.9k
Salary applicable to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions
AI-ready governance platform
Job no longer available
AI-ready governance platform
1001+ employees
Job no longer available
$189.9-284.9k
Salary applicable to California, Colorado, Connecticut, Nevada, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington. This role may also be eligible for discretionary bonuses, equity, and/or commissions
1001+ employees
Company mission
To enable innovation through the responsible use of data and AI.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent work experience in a related field
- 8+ years of progressive compensation and equity design experience in a global company
- SaaS experience strongly preferred
- CCP or CEP preferred
- Able to work independently and in a highly collaborative environment
- Must be self-motivated, flexible, deadline-oriented and able to complete tasks with minimal supervision
- Experience researching, designing, and implementing both compensation and equity programs. Strategic benchmarking to like industries
- Excellent interpersonal skills with high initiative, flexibility, and team approach to work
- Acute attention to detail and well-developed organization and time management skills
- Strong customer service focus and flexibility
- Comfortable in a fast paced and casual working environment
- Manage highly confidential information with professionalism and unquestionable integrity
- Exceptional written communication and presentation skills
What the job involves
- As Sr. Director, Compensation and a key leader within the Total Rewards team, you will play an integral part in the design, management, and execution of the compensation and equity plans to OneTrust’s employees worldwide. You will lead and set strategic vision for OneTrust’s compensation and equity plans
- Manage global annual rewards cycles including merit, bonus, LTI and promotion payouts; conduct global merit budget and economic analysis working with each country to establish final merit budget; conducts appropriate modeling including the creation of merit matrices; provides global tools and manage global reporting
- Understand the complexity of business on a global scale; embrace cultural and individual differences; and work with the nuances of specific local cultures to make informed, impactful compensation design decisions
- Manage deep analysis on effectiveness and competitiveness of existing reward programs and model potential impact of alternatives
- Manage global salary survey selection and appropriate use of market data; drives well-managed local benchmarking efforts, including strategy and methodology, survey selection, special studies, market intelligence, etc
- Prepare compensation and equity summary for executives to include new equity grants from new hires, refresh and promotions as well as forecasted budget for compensation
- Accurately track and maintain electronic systems and profiles through our respective
- Ensure global equity and compensation reporting and compliance in conjunction with Tax, HR and Finance partners to ensure international tax and regulatory compliance
- Reconcile transactions, termination dates, tax withholding and reporting, and other items as required. Reconcile cash and shares related to equity transactions along with our stock plan administration team
- Prepare annual reporting and support transactions (funding rounds, IPO, etc.)
- Conduct quarterly reviews, year-end audits, as well as ensure that internal controls and procedures are followed. Ad hoc reports for Finance, HR, Legal and Payroll, as needed
- Assist in preparation of executive compensation-related materials for Compensation Committee and Board of Directors meetings, as needed
- In partnership with HR and Finance, establish compensation budgets and guidelines for global locations
- Manage a team of compensation professionals
- Keeps abreast of global market trends
- Perform other duties and ad hoc projects and reporting as requested
Our take
It's becoming clear that as businesses rapidly adopt AI, governance is struggling to keep up. Companies are moving from a handful of tools to potentially hundreds of AI agents, creating new challenges around oversight, data use and risk. As privacy and security concerns grow, organizations are realizing that scaling AI without proper control can introduce just as many risks as opportunities.
That's where OneTrust comes in, with its "AI-powered governance platform" helping organizations track how AI systems operate, what data they access and how it's used. Rather than relying on static compliance checks, it focuses on continuous, real-time monitoring, building on its foundations in privacy, consent and risk management to give companies greater control over complex AI environments.
With more than 14,000 customers, including over half of the Fortune 500, OneTrust is entering a key phase of growth. Under new CEO John Heyman, the company is leaning into the idea that AI governance will become a core business need. As adoption accelerates, OneTrust is positioning itself as a central player in helping enterprise scale AI safely and responsibly.
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Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2023
$150m
LATE VC
Apr 2023
$50m
LATE VC
Total funding: $1.1bn
Company benefits
- Compensation: Top talent deserves top pay. Our competitive total packages include pay equity for all and bonuses.
- Mental Health & Support: Through a mental wellbeing platform and 14 weeks of parental bonding leave, inclusive of adoption, you can feel supported through all of life’s biggest changes.
- Time Off: Everyone needs time to rest and recharge. We offer flexible PTO, company recharge days, and volunteer time off globally. You’ll also have generous company holidays and paid sick days.
- Flexibility: Embrace a hybrid working model with opportunities to collaborate and celebrate in person and virtually. Click here to learn more about our location strategy and hybrid workplace model.
- Career Development: Become an expert in trust intelligence with our robust onboarding bootcamp and by earning industry certifications paid for by us.
- Employee Recognition: We celebrate our accomplishments the best way we know how – together. Our Values Spotlight Awards recognize teams across the company for their contributions.
Company HQ
Old Fourth Ward, Atlanta, GA
Leadership
Kabir Barday
(Founder & Board Member)Kabir founded OneTrust in 2015 and served as the company's CEO until 2026. Previously, he spent 2 years at VMware as a Senior Product Manager and Director of Product Management.
John Heyman
(CEO & Board Member)Prior to joining OneTrust in 2026, John was the CEO at Snap One for nearly 11 years and Radiant Systems for 6 years.
Blake Brannon
(Chief Product & Strategy Officer)Blake joined OneTrust in 2017 as CTO, moving into the role of Chief Product & Strategy Officer in 2021. Prior to OneTrust, he spent nearly 10 years at AirWatch by VMware as a Global Director of Sales Engineering and as VP of Product Marketing.
Digvijay Lamba
(Chief Product & Technology Officer)Prior to joining OneTrust in 2025, Digvijay served as the CTO at Firebolt Ventures and Alteryx. He also founded Lore IO and served as the company's CEO for nearly 5 years.
Michael Schanker
(CMO)Prior to joining OneTrust in 2025, Michael spent over 5 years at Coupa Software in various roles, including SVP of Strategic Marketing, EVP and CMO. He was also and Advisor and Head of Growth & Marketing at Remix as well as the Head of Marketing at OpenGov Inc.
Guido Torrini
(CFO)Alongside serving as the CFO at OneTrust, Guido is also the Chief Financial & Operating Officer at DDN. Previously, he was the CFO at Celonis and Wellhub.
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