Senior Manager, Executive

What You'll Do:

This role partners closely with the Senior Director, Global Compensation, while collaborating with the VP, Total Rewards and cross functional stakeholders to develop, implement, administer, and continuously enhance executive compensation programs. The role serves as Criteo's internal subject matter expert on executive compensation governance and supports the Compensation Committee and Board of Directors through high-quality analysis, governance, executive equity administration, and public company disclosure activities.

This role is ideal for an executive compensation professional who combines strong analytical capability with sound judgment, attention to detail, and a passion for governance. The successful candidate will thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment and be comfortable translating complex compensation matters into clear, actionable recommendations.

The position will be based in New York. Given the global nature of the role, flexibility to collaborate across multiple time zones is expected.

Key responsibilities include:

• Lead the implementation, administration, and continuous enhancement of executive compensation programs while partnering closely with the Senior Director on program design, strategy, governance, and market positioning, including:
  • Executive base salary reviews
  • Annual and long-term incentive programs
  • Executive employment offers and promotion packages
  • Executive severance arrangements
  • Executive share ownership guidelines
• Develop executive compensation analyses, market benchmarking, competitive assessments, and financial models to support executive compensation recommendations and decision making.
• Support the preparation of Compensation Committee and Board materials, including market analyses, management recommendations, presentation materials, and governance documentation.
• Partner with the Senior Director and external executive compensation advisors to evaluate market practices and develop recommendations for executive compensation programs.
• Support ad-hoc executive compensation matters such as promotions, retention needs, organizational changes, and terminations

• Coordinate Compensation Committee and Board meeting deliverables, ensuring materials are accurate, high quality, and completed within established timelines.
• Manage executive compensation calendars and recurring annual governance processes.
• Coordinate cross functional activities across Legal, Finance, Payroll, HR, Investor Relations, and external advisors to support Compensation Committee and Board deliverables.
• Document Compensation Committee decisions and coordinate implementation of approved actions and follow up activities.
• Continuously improve Committee processes, timelines, and supporting documentation.

• Support the governance and administration of executive equity programs.
• Partner with the Senior Director, Legal, Finance, and other stakeholders on executive equity programs, equity plan administration, and governance processes.
• Support the development and evolution of omnibus equity plans, award agreements, executive equity policies, and share reserve analyses.
• Develop analyses supporting executive equity positioning, share utilization, dilution, burn rate, long term incentive design, and share reserve planning.
• Monitor market trends relating to long-term incentives, executive equity, and governance practices and provide recommendations for consideration.

• Support the preparation and review of executive compensation disclosures for the annual proxy statement and other applicable regulatory filings.
• Coordinate the collection, validation, and review of compensation data required for the Compensation Discussion and Analysis, executive compensation tables, and related disclosures.
• Partners with Legal, Finance, Investor Relations, external counsel, and other advisors to ensure executive compensation disclosures, shareholder communications, and related filings are accurate, complete, and consistent with Compensation Committee decisions.
• Support the development of disclosure narratives relating to compensation philosophy, program design, pay for performance, governance practices, and Compensation Committee decisions.
• Prepare and validate executive compensation calculations, analyses, and supporting schedules for proxy disclosures, Board materials, and other regulatory reporting.