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A Brief Overview
The Director of Compensation is a strategic, solutions oriented leader who will design, manage, and evolve compensation programs for a diverse workforce of approximately 15,000 employees, including field, corporate and leadership populations. This highly visible role partners closely with senior leaders and PLD leadership, shaping enterprise wide pay strategy to support attraction, retention, engagement, and pay equity.
This role requires strong judgment and credibility—someone who can balance market pressures and business needs with internal equity while playing a critical role in shaping Safelite's Total Rewards philosophy, ensuring pay practices support a performance driven, people-first culture.
What You Will Do
Lead the enterprise compensation strategy, ensuring alignment with the organization’s goals, workforce needs and external market conditions. Provide credible, data-driven guidance to leaders while exercising strong judgment, offering constructive pushback and practical alternatives when needed.
Serve as a trusted compensation advisor to senior leaders, People Business Partners, and other key stakeholders. Translate complex compensation concepts into clear, actionable guidance while building credibility and trust through consistency, transparency, and strong professional judgment.
Lead annual merit and compensation planning cycles, including program design, modeling, governance, and execution.
Lead the design and delivery of compensation programs including base pay structures, incentive programs, sales compensation and field Technician pay models.
Own and continuously improve compensation processes, ensuring rigor and consistency without unnecessary bureaucracy. Develop tools, frameworks, and standards that enable efficient and effective compensation decisions.
Oversee market pricing and benchmarking to maintain competitive and market aligned pay practices. Establish and maintain clear guidelines and controls to ensure fair, consistent, and defensible pay decisions
Lead, mentor, and develop compensation team members, fostering a high performing, service oriented function
Performs other duties as assigned
Complies with all policies and standards
What You Will Need
Bachelor's Degree Related field, or equivalent combination of education and experience
7-9 years Progressive compensation experience, including leadership responsibility Required
7-9 years Experience supporting a large, complex organization (10,000+ employees) Required
7-9 years Experience supporting large, distributed workforces (retail, service, field operations, or similar) Preferred
7-9 years Experience leading compensation programs through growth, transformation or changing labor market conditions Preferred
Solution-oriented mindset, ability to balance business needs, associate equity and governance
High credibility and judgement, comfort offering alternative solutions when appropriate
Analytical and strategic thinker who proactively identifies opportunities, not just responds to requests.
Leverage HRIS (Workday, ADP, or similar) and advanced Excel skills to support planning, modeling, reporting and process efficiency.
Expected Work Location (Hybrid): It is expected that you will primarily perform work remotely, but you may be asked to travel, as needed, to the Safelite Home Office (7400 Safelite Way, Columbus, OH 43235), or to other location(s) as designated by the Company on a monthly basis. Changes to work location arrangements are subject to managerial approval and business needs. #LI-Hybrid #LI-JR2
Our people are passionate about what they do, the product they sell, and the customers they serve. If you're looking for an opportunity to be a part of a work culture that values collaboration, innovation and dedication, we're the right company for you.
This job description in no way states or implies that these are the only duties to be performed by an employee occupying this position. Employees may be required to perform other related duties as assigned to ensure workload coverage. This job description does NOT constitute an employment agreement between the employer and employee and is subject to change by the employer as the organizational needs and requirements of the job change.
This position description is not all inclusive for every aspect of this role. Reasonable accommodations will be made for individuals covered by ADA, ADEA, FMLA and other laws and regulations in accordance with their requirements. Physical and mental demands are not, and should not be construed to be job qualification standards, but are illustrated to help the employer, employee and/or applicant identify tasks where reasonable accommodations may need to be made when an otherwise qualified person is unable to perform the job’s essential duties because of an ADA disability.
Other qualifications may be required to ensure employment eligibility in accordance with local laws, regulations and with Safelite Group, Inc. policies and practices.
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