Director, Rewards
Kong
Remote job description
Are you ready to power the World's connections?
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we're looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the role:
The Director, Rewards will report directly to the Sr. Director, Total Rewards. They will provide strategic and advisory support to the key stakeholders including Senior Executives, HR Business Partners, and People Leaders across Kong. The candidate in this role will leverage their diverse experiences, in-depth knowledge of compensation programs, wellness with measurable ROI, prevalent market practices and data analytics to inform our rewards-related framework and subsequent decisions that create our Total Rewards programs, which are a key ingredient to Kong's Employee Value Proposition. Must have an "agile and entrepreneurial" mindset and be excited about the prospect of building a program from the ground-up, and educating an entire organization about key program attributes.
Why should you want to work at Kong?
Market Opportunity - We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!
Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!
Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!
Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.
Marco, our CTO/co-founder - "We are the Cisco of L4 and L7" - CUBE Conversation, March 2021
We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!
Amazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.
Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021
Kong employees exemplify our culture at our 2022 Sales Kickoff
2022 Forbes Cloud 100 Honoree
Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!
Kong Named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant
Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway! Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!
We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today's developers build tomorrow's technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services.
We put design at the heart of everything we do, and we're relentlessly focused on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That's why technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web applications.
We believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That's why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our open-source platform.
We are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we're looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.
Kong Core Values:
Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.
Be Authentic. We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.
Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle.
Be Customer Obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.
Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.
Be an Owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises' most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence - allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely.
83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Summary
Company name: Kong
Remote job title: Director, Rewards
Job tags: open-source, api, dev ops / tech ops, infrastructure, software, saas
If you don't think you meet all of the criteria below but are still interested in the job, please apply. Nobody checks every box - we're looking for candidates that are particularly strong in a few areas, and have some interest and capabilities in others.
About the role:
The Director, Rewards will report directly to the Sr. Director, Total Rewards. They will provide strategic and advisory support to the key stakeholders including Senior Executives, HR Business Partners, and People Leaders across Kong. The candidate in this role will leverage their diverse experiences, in-depth knowledge of compensation programs, wellness with measurable ROI, prevalent market practices and data analytics to inform our rewards-related framework and subsequent decisions that create our Total Rewards programs, which are a key ingredient to Kong's Employee Value Proposition. Must have an "agile and entrepreneurial" mindset and be excited about the prospect of building a program from the ground-up, and educating an entire organization about key program attributes.
Why should you want to work at Kong?
Market Opportunity - We are on a quest to build a $10b+ software company over the next few years and need YOUR help!
Why APIs Matter? APIs have been enabling innovation for decades!
Strong VC team, Series D, strong year over year revenue growth!
Technical Leadership - We are recognized as the leader in innovation in the connectivity space.
Marco, our CTO/co-founder - "We are the Cisco of L4 and L7" - CUBE Conversation, March 2021
We are the leading innovator in the connectivity space!
Amazing Team & Culture - Come be a "Konger" and find out what we mean.
Great Place to Work Certified in 2020 & 2021
Kong employees exemplify our culture at our 2022 Sales Kickoff
2022 Forbes Cloud 100 Honoree
Building Great Products - Learn why the world's largest companies love our tech!
Kong Named a Leader in the 2021 Gartner Magic Quadrant
Over 250m+ downloads of our open source API gateway! Over 40k+ stars on Github between Kong API and Kong Insomnia!
What you'll be doing:
- Design and implement Kong's Global Compensation framework that aligns with the company's strategic goals, our GRUCEO values and supports a high-performance culture.
- Develop a deep understanding of Kong's business, the technology segment and the operating groups within the company and provide guidance on the appropriate compensation strategy that aligns with the business strategy.
- Develop relations and engage widely across the company to provide concise guidance and recommendations to Senior Executives, HR Business Partners, People Leaders and leaders across Kong.
- Lead our Annual Compensation Review process and various other compensation-related initiatives as needed.
- Ensure that our global compensation programs are designed to drive employee performance in line with business objectives, are market competitive, legally sound, and managed/administered accurately and effectively.
- Help drive pay parity and pay fairness across Kong, by driving an annual pay parity review process
- Have an eye towards continual improvements, including designing system automations to ensure that the compensation lifecycle is efficient, scalable, user- friendly and compliant.
- Communicate and educate different employee segments throughout Kong so that they understand our compensation philosophy, principles and programs.
- Provide strategic and thought leadership around employee wellness service priorities and programs ensuring alignment and support with business priorities.
What you'll bring:
- Enthusiasm, authenticity and deep knowledge of Global Compensation and Wellness programs.
- Worked in/with various size companies, and especially early stage start-ups where your experience, knowledge and hands-on approach can be put to use by building the foundational framework for a scalable program.
- Ability to clearly translate complex compensation concepts and educate a wide cross-section of the company, so they can fully understand our compensation vision, strategy and approach and that it is viewed as a business enabler, not an administrative burden.
- You have strong bias for action, are skilled at change management, and have a proven track record for designing, driving, managing and scaling compensation programs through policies, processes, and systems
- Strong business acumen, data analysis skills and a deep understanding of equity/stock compensation
We are a group of makers, thinkers, and doers focused on helping today's developers build tomorrow's technology. Our teams work on the bleeding edge of API innovation to provide our users with a central nervous system for data and services.
We put design at the heart of everything we do, and we're relentlessly focused on creating beautiful experiences for our customers. That's why technology companies, major banks, e-commerce innovators, and government agencies put Kong in front of their most important web applications.
We believe in the power of Open Source and everything it stands for. That's why developers around the world enthusiastically contribute on top of our open-source platform.
We are passionate about solving challenges that will fundamentally shape the future of technology, and we're looking for the right people to join us on our mission. If you believe in taking ownership of your work, making an impact, and having fun along the way, we would love to talk to you.
Kong Core Values:
Be Inclusive. We work together from anywhere to achieve our common goals. Our differences make us stronger.
Be Authentic. We are genuine, principled and confident without arrogance. Show respect and kindness, especially in tough moments.
Be Relentlessly Resourceful. We work with purpose, obsession and grit. It takes muscle to do hard things and doing hard things build muscle.
Be Customer Obsessed. We care. Customers are everything, we put them at the center of everything you do. We are all empowered to make an impact.
Be Curious. We value ideas over hierarchy. Never accept the status quo. We make bold bets, fail, and learn everyday. There is always a way.
Be an Owner. We are drivers not passengers and own the quality and outcomes of our work.
About Kong:
Kong is THE cloud native API platform with the fastest, most adopted API gateway in the world (over 300m downloads!). Loved by developers and trusted with enterprises' most critical traffic volumes, Kong helps startups and Fortune 500 companies build with confidence - allowing them to bring solutions to market faster with API and service connectivity that scales easily and securely.
83% of web traffic today is API calls! APIs are the connective tissue of the cloud and the underlying technology that allows software to talk and interact with one another. Therefore, we believe that APIs act as the nervous system of the cloud. Our audacious mission is to build the nervous system that will safely and reliably connect all of humankind!
For more information about Kong, please visit konghq.com or follow @thekonginc on Twitter.
We are an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status.
Summary
Company name: Kong
Remote job title: Director, Rewards
Job tags: open-source, api, dev ops / tech ops, infrastructure, software, saas
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