Director, Global Compensation

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💵 $212.2k - $262.1k / year

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Ultragenyx

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2010

🏥 Healthcare

💼 Consulting

📦 Logistics

Healthcare • Consulting • Logistics

Ultragenyx is a biopharmaceutical company dedicated to transforming the lives of individuals with rare and ultrarare genetic diseases. The company focuses on developing and delivering treatments for conditions where no current therapies exist, utilizing a variety of drug modalities tailored to each disease. Ultragenyx boasts a robust and diverse clinical pipeline, with therapies in development for genetic diseases such as Wilson Disease, osteogenesis imperfecta, and Angelman Syndrome. With a passionate team and a commitment to patient advocacy, Ultragenyx aims to lead the way in pioneering therapies that significantly impact rare disease communities.

📋 Description

• Serve as the lead compensation advisor for assigned complex and global business areas, consulting on strategic hires, retention, promotions, job leveling, organizational changes, annual compensation planning, and other high-impact compensation decisions • Develop an in-depth understanding of business strategies, talent priorities, organizational structures, and regional market conditions to anticipate compensation implications and recommend practical solutions • Analyze complex compensation issues and develop market-informed recommendations balancing business objectives, external competitiveness, internal equity, global consistency, and compensation philosophy • Design and recommend innovative compensation solutions for critical talent, retention needs, and strategic business initiatives • Advise senior HR and business leaders, communicate data-driven recommendations, and exercise sound judgment • Represent client needs in the design, enhancement, and implementation of broad-based compensation programs, frameworks, policies, and processes • Lead global compensation market intelligence strategy, including survey vendor relationships and survey investment decisions • Oversee market pricing and benchmarking across functions, levels, and geographies, translating complex analyses into clear recommendations • Attend vendor and industry conferences • Own global job architecture, leveling framework, job evaluation methodology, and salary structures across regions, organizational structures, and career paths • Maintain knowledge of pharmaceutical and biotechnology compensation practices and regional market and regulatory considerations across North America, EMEA, LATAM, and APAC • Lead annual market reviews, including market movement, competitiveness, salary structure alignment, midpoint progression, range adjustments, and pay compression • Provide subject matter leadership for annual compensation planning, global pay transparency and pay equity, and broad-based program enhancements

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required • 10+ years of progressive broad-based compensation experience in high-growth, global environments • Experience in a global public pharmaceutical, biotechnology, or life sciences company strongly preferred • Demonstrated compensation business partnering experience with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders across multiple functions, geographies, and organizational levels • Deep experience with market pricing, benchmarking, salary structure design, job architecture, job leveling, job evaluation, and compensation decision support • International compensation experience, including experience supporting EMEA, LATAM, and/or APAC, preferred • Excellent communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills, with the ability to explain compensation concepts clearly to HR and business audiences • Experience with life sciences survey frameworks and compensation data sources such as Aon/Radford, Mercer, WTW, or similar providers • Strong analytical, modeling, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate market data and compensation analysis into clear, practical recommendations • Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment while maintaining strong attention to detail, sound judgment, and a collaborative approach

🏖️ Benefits

• Generous vacation time and public holidays observed by the company • Volunteer days • Long term incentive and Employee stock purchase plans or equivalent offerings • Employee wellbeing benefits • Fitness reimbursement • Tuition sponsoring • Professional development plans • Annual bonus • Equity incentives