Senior Director, Compensation and Classification

About Us

Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our strategic plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech

Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values

Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:

1. Students are our top priority.

2. We strive for excellence.

3. We thrive on diversity.

4. We celebrate collaboration.

5. We champion innovation.

6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.

7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.

8. We act ethically.

9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

Department Information

Georgia Tech Human Resources (GTHR) serves the Institute and its more than 14,000 employees through strategic counsel, employee engagement, and essential human capital management operations. As the people's unit, GTHR is engaged throughout the employee's lifetime at Georgia Tech. Our team works with sensitive employee information and assists in the management of complex employee issues. Professionalism and confidence are of the utmost importance within our team.

What we do:

• Process payroll and maintain employment data for approximately 14,000 active faculty, staff, and students
• Strive to attract, recruit, and retain the best talent in the marketplace.
• Provide immigration, labor, and tax support required for foreign national faculty and staff to work at Georgia Tech and support employees performing services overseas.
• Leverage a market-driven compensation structure to attract and retain employees.
• Advise employees and managers regarding work performance and conflict management.

Compensation and Classification Department

Define and maintain job structures by evaluating roles to ensure accurate job titles, levels, and classifications aligned with organizational needs, governance requirements, and market context. Establish and manage market-driven salary structures that support talent attraction and retention while maintaining internal consistency and alignment with Georgia Tech and the University System of Georgia requirements. Support talent attraction and retention by applying competitive, sustainable, and data-informed compensation practices. Monitor parity and compression to identify pay concerns and inform data-driven recommendations. Advise leaders, managers, and employees on job classification and compensation practices.

Job Summary

The Senior Director of Compensation & Classification will be responsible for all aspects of institutional compensation design, delivery, and administration. This role will partner with the HR Leadership team to develop multi-year strategic plans for compensation programs, from broad-based incentives to metrics, and ensure day-to-day programs run at optimal levels. Additionally, this role will be responsible for the following:

• Annual compensation adjustments
• Salary surveys
• Pay equity
• Pay transparency
• Short- and long-term incentives
• Executive compensation
• Staff, academic, and research compensation and equity programs
• As well as providing day-to-day support to leaders on job, wage, and salary classification.

Responsibilities

Job Duty 1 -
Lead the development of best practice approaches in compensation, ensuring programs are aligned with the Institute's overall strategic plan, HR total rewards strategy, and employee value proposition. Partner with central and decentralized HR colleagues in ongoing strategic planning, shaping a collaborative and cohesive community of compensation practitioners.

Job Duty 2 -
Provide ongoing thought leadership, insight, and consultation to senior leadership; act as an expert in applying technology solutions such as predictive analytics, artificial intelligence, and automation to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of compensation and classification processes.

Job Duty 3 -
Maintain a compensation structure, philosophy, and classification system, inclusive of defined job levels and families, compilations of market data, and established pay parameters. Manage ongoing employee compensation programs, including annual salary adjustments, promotion awards, and equity guidelines while ensuring competitiveness and fairness.

Job Duty 4 -
Partner with Finance and Planning (F&P) teams in multi-year compensation budget development processes that include both strategic direction and financial modeling capabilities to ensure changes align with the strategic objectives of the Institute and support faculty and staff recruitment and retention goals.

Job Duty 5 -
Consult with business units on design and execution of local compensation programs. Participate in, analyze, and interpret market data. Complete special studies and recommendations on incentive compensation, executive plans, sales compensation, or company pay equity for staff, academic, and research units.

Job Duty 6 -
Consolidate information and produce reports, best practices, guidelines, and procedures for management/unit decision-making. Consolidate information and produce reports, best practices, guidelines, and procedures for management/unit decision-making. Develop and utilize metrics to measure the effectiveness and efficiency of assigned work, ensuring alignment with organizational goals. Regularly analyze and report on these metrics to campus stakeholders and executive leadership, providing actionable insights to inform strategic decisions.

Job Duty 7 -
Supervise a team of talented compensation and classification staff, ensuring their ongoing subject matter expertise and professional development while maintaining adherence to applicable policies and procedures.

Job Duty 8 -
Continually maintain expert knowledge of industry trends, University System of Georgia policies, and related state and federal laws, and proactively provide timely updates and guidance to human resources practitioners and supervisors across the organization to ensure compliance and informed decision-making.

Job Duty 9 -
Perform other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree with an emphasis in Human Resources, Accounting, Finance, or Economics

Apply through the Georgia Institute of Technology careers site.