Senior Director Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

Position: Senior Director, Compensation - Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
** Job Description*
* Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is seeking a strategic and collaborative Senior Director of Compensation to lead compensation consulting, strategy, and execution for OCI's global business, including our rapidly growing data centers.

This leader will serve as the primary compensation advisor to OCI executives and HR leadership, translating business strategy, workforce needs, and evolving technical-talent market conditions into competitive, scalable, and equitable compensation programs. The Senior Director will lead a team of compensation consultants and partner closely with compensation leaders across lines of business and geographies, Compensation Centers of Excellence, HR, Talent Advisory, Finance, Legal, and other key stakeholders.

** Responsibilities*
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* Key Responsibilities:

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* + Partnering with the Compensation COE, lead the design, implementation, and governance of compensation strategies and programs that support OCI's business objectives, talent needs, and growth plans.

+ Serve as the primary compensation advisor to OCI executives and HR leadership, providing clear, data-driven recommendations on compensation strategy and effective delivery to the OCI business

+ Serve as a key member of the Global Compensation leadership team, contributing OCI business perspective, best practices, and insights to enterprise compensation strategy and cross-functional initiatives.

+ Oversee data center compensation design and consulting delivery, collaborating with HR, business leaders and other key stakeholders.

+ Build strong, collaborative partnerships with compensation leaders across lines of business and geographies to ensure consistent application of global frameworks while tailoring solutions to OCI's business and talent needs.

+ Lead annual compensation planning for OCI, including salary, bonus and incentive programs and equity planning

+ Develop analytics and decision-support tools that enable budget modeling and inform compensation recommendations during annual compensation planning and other global compensation programs.

+ Partner with OCI Talent Advisory to develop effective, competitive, and fiscally responsible offer strategies for broad-based,  critical technical and executive talent

+ Develop market-informed compensation approaches for highly competitive technical and infrastructure talent, including engineering, data center operations, construction and delivery, product, and other critical cloud-infrastructure roles.

+ Partner with Key stakeholders to lead initiatives that strengthen attraction, retention, engagement, performance, and cost optimization across OCI's global workforce.

+ Partner with Compensation Centers of Excellence and OCI HR Business Partners to evolve OCI's job architecture and lead change management that enables business growth and organizational effectiveness.

+ Collaborate with global and regional compensation teams to support organizational transformations, acquisitions or integrations, and other strategic workforce initiatives affecting OCI.

+ Ensure compensation programs are administered with appropriate governance, controls, compliance, and risk management.

+ Develop and deliver clear communications, guidance, and training on compensation programs for OCI HR leaders, business leaders, and managers.

+ Continuously improve compensation consulting processes, tools, analytics, and service delivery to provide an efficient, scalable, and high-quality experience for business leaders, managers, and employees.

+ Lead, develop, and inspire a high-performing team of compensation consultants, building strong consulting capability, operational rigor, and a culture of continuous improvement.

+ Prepare and present compensation recommendations, analyses, and insights for executive leadership and other senior governance forums, as needed.

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* Preferred Qualifications:

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* + 12+ years of progressive broad-based compensation or total rewards experience, including significant experience supporting global technology, cloud, infrastructure, or other highly technical work forces.

+ 5+ years of experience leading and developing teams of compensation professionals or highly skilled individual contributors.

+ Demonstrated experience leading broad-based compensation strategy and programs, including annual compensation planning, market pricing, job architecture, equity, incentive design, and executive-facing consultation.

+ Proven ability to develop strategy, processes, and delivery plans without an established…