Director, Global Compensation & Equity Strategy

Legora; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental & Vision

401(K) with company match

Unlimited PTO

Parental leave

HSA or Healthcare FSA

Free One Medical membership

Job summary

Legora is building a compensation function to scale a fast-growing, globally distributed company. We seek a Director, Compensation to own day-to-day design and execution of programs—from benchmarking and job architecture to salary planning and equity strategy.

This high-visibility role partners with the VP of Rewards and shapes pay to attract, reward, and retain top talent worldwide. This is a builder role at Legora, with the chance to define compensation processes, governance, and analytics

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive compensation experience.
• Experience with benchmarking platforms (Pave, Ravio) and job architecture.
• Experience supporting equity compensation programs (options and/or RSUs).
• Experience supporting or leading executive compensation processes is a plus.
• Comfort operating with a builder mindset and creating structure.
• Strong analytical skills to translate data into recommendations.
• Excellent cross-functional partnership with People, Finance, and leaders.
• Experience mentoring a compensation analyst or coordinator.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve Legora's compensation guidelines, pay structures, and salary ranges across all levels and geographies.
• Lead job architecture work — leveling, job family mapping, and career framework design.
• Manage compensation benchmarking using market data tools (Pave and Ravio).
• Lead compensation analytics and insights, including pay equity analysis and reporting.
• Prepare analyses and recommendations for merit cycles, promotions, and off-cycle pay adjustments.
• Build forecasting and planning processes for compensation spend.
• Partner on equity program design and administration (RSU/Options).
• Support executive compensation activities and offers.
• Advise on offers, internal equity, and pay decisions.
• Help build scalable compensation processes and tools as Legora grows.
• Build governance frameworks for compensation decisions and audit readiness.
• Manage vendor relationships for survey providers and systems.
• Stay current on pay transparency laws and data privacy obligations.
• Lead and develop a Compensation Analyst.

Skills

Compensation design

Benchmarking platforms

Job architecture

Equity compensation

Executive compensation

Analytics

Cross-functional partnership

Leadership/mentoring

Tools

Pave

Ravio

Job description

Legora is building a compensation function to scale a fast-growing, globally distributed company. We seek a Director, Compensation to own day-to-day design and execution of programs—from benchmarking and job architecture to salary planning and equity strategy.

This high-visibility role partners with the VP of Rewards and shapes pay to attract, reward, and retain top talent worldwide. This is a builder role at Legora, with the chance to define compensation processes, governance, and analytics