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.
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.
- 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.
$97,600 - $122,000
*This is a remote role
JR: 2026-8216
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- 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 you keep growing. We provide employees with reimbursement for relevant conferences, training, and education. All employees have access to LinkedIn Learning's 10,000+ courses to support their continued growth and development.
- We care about your well-being. Regardless of your location, we will provide you with a competitive array of benefits to support you from our Employee Assistance Program to Local Employee Meetups to flexible time off policy, to name a few. While the philosophy around our benefits is the same worldwide, specific benefits may vary based on local regulations and preferences.
- We reward our employees. The salary range for this position is based on market data, relevant years of experience, and skills. You may qualify for a bonus in addition to base salary; bonus amounts are determined based on company and individual performance. We also provide equity compensation to eligible employees, including equity grants upon hire and the option to participate in our Employee Stock Purchase Program.
- DigitalOcean is an equal-opportunity employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, ancestry, national origin, caste, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity or expression, age, disability, medical condition, pregnancy, genetic makeup, marital status, or military service.
Application Limit: You may apply to a maximum of 3 positions within any 180-day period. This policy promotes better role-candidate matching and encourages thoughtful applications where your qualifications align most strongly.
Skills Required
- Experience partnering directly with Talent Acquisition on candidate offers
- Experience advising HR Business Partners on client-facing compensation matters
- Expert-level data analysis and quantitative modeling skills using Google Sheets or Excel
- Proven experience building compensation frameworks
- Direct involvement managing end-to-end annual compensation planning cycles
- Experience in a technology or high-growth environment
- Experience supporting global compensation programs across multiple international technology hubs and regulatory landscapes
- Exceptional relational intelligence and diplomacy for sensitive pay discussions
- Growth mindset and strong appetite for feedback
- High attention to detail
- CCP certification via WorldatWork
What We Do
DigitalOcean is the Inference Cloud — a full-stack, production-ready cloud platform built to run AI applications with predictable performance, sustainable economics, and radically simpler operations at scale. We are built for teams turning AI into real products — not just training models. Our advantage is not fewer features, but fewer failure modes when operating AI at scale — combining minimal operational overhead, predictable cost efficiency, and a full-stack cloud that works as a system. Hyperscalers are broad by design. Neoclouds are infrastructure-first. DigitalOcean is inference-first — with a real cloud underneath. It combines inference-optimized compute, managed inference software, and integrated cloud capabilities that reduce operational burden for teams running real workloads. Inference is the foundation—not the boundary. Everything else builds on top of it.
Why Work With Us
At DO, we do career-defining work. We innovate with AI and build cutting-edge tech. Our rewards to match that intensity - to motivate you, recognize your impact, and give you what you need to thrive. If you have a growth mindset, like to think big and bold, and are energized by the fast-paced environment, you'll find your place here.
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