Our mission is to make biology easier to engineer. Ginkgo is constructing, editing, and redesigning the living world in order to answer the globe’s growing challenges in health, energy, food, materials, and more. Our bioengineers make use of an in-house automated foundry for designing and building new organisms.
Critical to this mission is our people, whose passion, innovation, and drive enable Ginkgo’s continuous progress and achievements. Our People Team strives to be a trusted partner and resource to all of our team members, so that everyone is free to unleash their creative energies on engineering biology.
To propel these efforts, we are looking for a Director of Compensation to contribute to our compensation strategy and tactics, building on and evolving our current compensation philosophy and programs. Leveraging your innovative approach and continuous improvement mindset, you will help to design programs and initiatives that match Ginkgo’s maturation journey as a company and reflect its value proposition and culture.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Senior Leadership and Compensation Consultants to develop creative compensation solutions that leverage equity plan design as a key lever in attracting and retaining top talent.
- Lead the design, implementation, communication, and administration of Ginkgo's compensation programs, ensuring that they align with current and future business needs.
- Manage the Compensation team and third party partners.
- Lead Ginkgo's annual compensation review and planning processes, ensuring risks and opportunities are articulated and addressed.
- Prepare and present analyses, materials, and recommendations to senior leadership, as needed and as appropriate.
- Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal laws.
- Deliver effective and relevant training and communication materials which educate team members on Ginkgo’s compensation philosophy.
- Oversee the standardization and application of compensation bands and benchmarks.
- Oversee company job architecture, including approving and benchmarking new job families and levels
- Oversee and develop recommendations for new hire offer letters, promotions, and job changes
- Contribute to departmental goals, objectives, and achievements.
- Collaborate with Finance, Legal, and other teams to ensure our incentive plans and programs are cost-effective, employee-friendly, and compliant.
Minimum Requirements
- 10 years of experience in compensation, with at least 5 years in a managerial role, preferably within a fast-growing biotech/pharmaceutical and/or technology industry.
- Technical proficiency in HR systems, compensation, short- and long-term incentive plans, and HR-related legal and finance issues.
- High degree of analytical capability, love of data, and ability to present complex information in a streamlined and easy to understand format, considering all possible options.
- Experience working in global, publicly traded organizations.
- Familiarity with continuous improvement systems and principles.
- Proven ability to work with an intellectually strong leadership and workforce.
- Experience in a fast-paced environment, as well as demonstrated ability to scale, drive, and manage multiple projects and initiatives in this environment, with a focus on operational excellence.
- Demonstrated ability to drive employee engagement.
Preferred Capabilities and Experience
- High-energy and proactive style, naturally following up and following through on initiatives.
- Strong business acumen, outstanding analytical skills, and business process orientation.
- Robust communication and executive influencing skills.
- Willingness and ability to adeptly manage multiple responsibilities, multiple stakeholders, competing priorities, and tight timelines.
- Demonstrated ability to understand business objectives and translate them into people solutions, particularly with compensation strategy and programs.
- Solution-oriented problem-solving skills, with rigorous decision-making ability.
- Agile working mindset, with a structured and pragmatic way of thinking, and comfort with ambiguity and fluidity.
To learn more about Ginkgo, visit www.ginkgobioworks.com/press/ or check out some curated press below:
- What is it really like to take your company public via a SPAC? One Boston biotech shares its journey (Fortune)
- Ginkgo Bioworks resizes the definition of going big in biotech, raising $2.5B in a record SPAC deal that weighs in with a whopping $15B-plus valuation (Endpoints News)
- Ginkgo Bioworks CEO on scaling up Covid-19 testing: ‘If we try, we can win’ (CNBC)
- Ginkgo raises $70 million to ramp up COVID-19 testing for employers, universities (Boston Globe)
- Ginkgo Bioworks Redirects Its Biotech Platform to Coronavirus (Wall Street Journal)
- Ginkgo Bioworks Provides Support on Process Optimization to Moderna for COVID-19 Response (PRNewswire)
- The Life Factory: Synthetic Organisms From This $1.4 Billion Startup Will Revolutionize Manufacturing (Forbes)
- Synthetic Bio Pioneer Ginkgo Raises $290 Million in New Funding (Bloomberg)
- Ginkgo Bioworks raises $350 million fund for biotech spinouts (Reuters)
- Can This Company Convince You to Love GMOs? (The Atlantic)
We also feel that it’s important to point out the obvious here – there’s a serious lack of diversity in our industry, and that needs to change. Our goal is to help drive that change. Ginkgo is deeply committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in all of its practices, especially when it comes to growing our team. Our culture promotes inclusion and embraces how rewarding it is to work with people from all walks of life.
We’re developing a powerful biological engineering platform, so we must remain mindful of the many ways our technology can – and will – impact people around the world. We care about how our platform is used, and having a diverse team to build it gives us the best chance that it’s something we’ll be proud of as it continues to grow. Therefore, it’s critical that we incorporate the diverse voices and visions of all those who play a role in the future of biology.
It is the policy of Ginkgo Bioworks to provide equal employment opportunities to all employees, employment applicants, and EOE disability/vet.
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