Compensation Partner

Dive in and do the best work of your career at DigitalOcean. Journey alongside a strong community of top talent who are relentless in their drive to build the simplest scalable cloud. If you have a growth mindset, naturally like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment of a true industry disruptor, you’ll find your place here. We value winning together—while learning, having fun, and making a profound difference for the dreamers and builders in the world.

We are seeking a Compensation Partner who is a high performing team player, who can take on new challenges, and go the extra mile.
As a Compensation Partner reporting to the Head of Total Rewards at DigitalOcean, you will join a dynamic team dedicated to revolutionizing cloud computing and AI. You will serve as a compensation advisor for Talent Acquisition and People Business Partners, maintaining core compensation structures and modeling range refreshes. In this role, you will evolve into a key driver of our annual and mid-year performance compensation cycles, ensuring internal equity and market competitiveness across our global organization.
What You’ll Do:
- Partner with Talent Acquisition and People Business Partners on offer recommendations and compensation guidance below the Director level in order to attract and retain top global talent.
- Maintain MarketPay benchmarking tools and compensation ranges in order to ensure external competitiveness across all business units.
- Build complex financial models and conduct deep data analysis in order to support annual salary range refreshes and ad-hoc business requests.
- Perform ongoing internal equity audits in order to identify and mitigate pay disparities across teams and regions.
- Program manage annual and mid-year compensation cycles in order to deliver smooth, timely, and accurate merit and equity adjustments.
- Evaluate job descriptions and job profiles against industry benchmark data in order to align internal roles to market structures.
- Monitor global technology compensation trends and regulatory requirements in order to maintain compliant, cutting-edge Total Rewards programs.

What You’ll Add:
- Experience partnering directly with Talent Acquisition on candidate offers and advising HR Business Partners on client-facing compensation matters.
- Expert-level data analysis and quantitative modeling skills using Google Sheets or Excel, with proven experience building compensation frameworks.
- Direct involvement in managing end-to-end annual compensation planning cycles within a tech or high-growth environment.
- Experience supporting global compensation programs across multiple international tech hubs and regulatory landscapes.
- Exceptional relational intelligence and diplomacy, enabling you to build trust and navigate sensitive pay discussions across cross-functional teams.
- A growth mindset with a strong appetite for feedback, high attention to detail, and a "leave it better than you found it" approach.
- CCP (Certified Compensation Professional) certification via WorldatWork is a plus.

Compensation Range:
- $97,600 - $122,000

*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-8216
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Why You’ll Like Working for DigitalOcean
- We innovate with purpose. You’ll be a part of a cutting-edge technology company with an upward trajectory, who are proud to simplify cloud and AI so builders can spend more time creating software that changes the world. As a member of the team, you will be a Shark who thinks big, bold, and scrappy, like an owner with a bias for action and a powerful sense of responsibility for customers, products, employees, and decisions.
- We prioritize career development. At DO, you’ll do the best work of your career. You will work with some of the smartest and most interesting people in the industry. We are a high-performance organization that will always challenge you to think big. Our organizational development team will provide you with resources to ensure yo