Sr. Associate, Executive Compensation

Position Title: Sr. Associate, Executive Compensation

Location: Dallas, Austin, Boston, Chicago, Ashburn, San Francisco

Your role Digital Realty is looking to add to our Total Rewards team a motivated, detail-oriented, and customer-focused senior analyst who thrives in a team-oriented and high-performance culture. This role offers the opportunity to make an impact with a global, publicly traded Fortune 500 company and one of the largest full-service data center providers in the world. 

What you’ll do 

Stock Plan Administration (60%)

• Grant stock awards, including calculations of awards. 
• Administer annual, quarterly and monthly stock awards, including LTI plans, retention, and board of director stock grants
• Track and manage stock award details, ensuring timely acceptance of awards
• Oversee restricted stock unit (RSU) and performance stock unit (PSU) vesting processes
• Coordinate with payroll teams for processing stock unit vesting
• Confirm dividend accruals for vesting
• Ensure compliance with US and global withholding requirements
• Audit termination processes for stock participants
• Provide information for annual global tax filings
• Partner with Legal for Proxy and Required Stock Filings 
• Gather and analyze stock information for annual proxy statements
• ESPP administration tasks including loading contributions, assisting with semi-annual enrollments, communicating withdrawals and refunds to payroll teams, assisting with semi-annual purchases

Compensation (40%)

• Complete market surveys, market price jobs and maintain related databases, create salary structures and complete analyses to ensure ongoing competitiveness of our compensation programs
• Partner with vendors and key internal stakeholders (HR, Finance, Accounting, Tax and Payroll) to ensure effective delivery of programs
• Support the effective delivery of the annual compensation process. Update and distribute communications, ensure data quality, and audit and identify opportunities to improve compensation planning quality 
• Develop and produce complex regular and ad-hoc compensation reports and analyses
• Develop and deliver compensation training for managers and HR business partners
• Maintain current knowledge of compensation trends and regulations. Make recommendations for needed changes to existing programs, policies, and procedures

What you’ll need 

• 2-4 years in stock plan administration
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and experience
• Ability to drive multiple projects simultaneously and consistently meet deadlines
• Excellent analytic and Excel skills.  Ability to analyze, synthesize, visualize, and draw conclusions from complex data sets
• High degree of attention to detail
• Demonstrated ability to partner with customers/clients
• Ability to work both independently and collaboratively in a team environment
• Adaptable to changing or new business requirements  
• Prior experience with Oracle, Fidelity PSW, and/or salary.com platforms is preferred

 A bit about us

Digital Realty brings companies and data together by delivering the full spectrum of data center, colocation and interconnection solutions. PlatformDIGITAL®, the company’s global data center platform, provides customers with a secure data meeting place and a proven Pervasive Datacenter Architecture (PDx®) solution methodology for powering innovation and efficiently managing Data Gravity challenges. Digital Realty gives its customers access to the connected data communities that matter to them with a global data center footprint of 300+ facilities in 50+ metros across 28 countries on six continents.

To learn more about Digital Realty, please visit digitalrealty.com or follow us on LinkedIn and X.

A bit about our Digital team 

HR

Our HR team are trusted advisors to colleagues across the business. We handle employee questions, recruit top talent, lead talent management initiatives, set the people strategy and work with our senior leaders to create long-term strategies and plans for the future of our business. The work is very rewarding and requires us to think strategically and have the confidence to challenge leaders when required. 

What we can offer you

Our rapidly evolving business sector offers the opportunity to be part of a courageous and passionate team who work together to understand and meet the changing