Senior Executive Compensation Analyst at Sandisk in Milpitas, CA, United States

Job description

• The Senior Executive Compensation Analyst supports the design, analysis, and administration of Sandisk’s executive compensation programs reporting into the Head of Executive Compensation. This role delivers data-driven insights, market intelligence, governance support, and program execution to support Sandisk’s executive talent strategy, partnering closely with senior leaders, HR Business Partners, Stock Administration, Finance, Legal, Payroll, and external consultants to ensure executive compensation programs are competitive, compliant, and aligned with business and shareholder priorities.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Business Partnership
• Act as a trusted thought partner and advisor to Total Rewards leadership, HR Business Partners, and senior executives on executive compensation matters.
• Translate business strategy, performance outcomes, and talent priorities into data-driven analyses, benchmarking, and governance-aligned recommendations.
• Provide consultative guidance on executive offers, retention strategies, promotions, and transitions, balancing enterprise consistency, market competitiveness, and governance considerations.
• Handle highly sensitive information with discretion and sound judgment and communicate effectively with senior leadership.
• Executive Compensation Strategy & Analytics
• Conduct executive market benchmarking and peer group analysis using external surveys and public disclosures to assess competitive positioning across executive pay levels, incentive design, and governance practices.
• Model executive compensation scenarios covering base pay, annual incentives, long-term incentives, and total direct compensation, evaluating outcomes relative to market, internal guidelines, and governance considerations.
• Develop clear, executive-ready insights and materials that support informed decision-making by leadership.
• Compensation Committee & Proxy Support
• Prepare meeting materials for the Compensation and Talent Committee (CTC) of the Board of Directors aligned with the CTC Charter, including incentive design, compensation recommendations, equity budgeting, and scenario modeling.
• Support development of proxy disclosure, including CD&A narrative and SEC-required compensation tables, in coordination with Legal, Finance, Investor Relations, and external advisors to ensure accuracy, compliance, and consistency across disclosures and communications. Partner cross-functionally to ensure accuracy, compliance, and consistency across disclosures and communications.
• Program Administration & Governance
• Ensure the effective execution of executive compensation programs, including annual incentives, equity awards, and merit and promotion cycles, through close partnership with HR Business Partners, HR Operations, IT, Payroll, Stock Administration, Legal, and senior leadership.
• Monitor external governance and regulatory trends and recommend program or policy enhancements.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, Economics, HR, Accounting, or related field.
• 6–10+ years of experience in executive compensation, compensation analytics, or total rewards within a public technology company.
• Advanced Excel and financial modeling skills with strong executive communication capability.
• Experience using executive compensation surveys (e.g., Radford, Willis Towers Watson, Mercer).
• Experience partnering cross-functionally within a highly regulated business environment.
• CECP certification preferred.

Skills

Required

• Advanced Excel
• Financial modeling
• Executive communication

Preferred

• CECP certification

Benefits

• An employee’s pay position within the salary range may be based on several factors including but not limited to (1) relevant education; qualifications; certifications; and experience; (2) skills, ability, knowledge of the job; (3) performance, contribution and results; (4) geographic location; (5) shift; (6) internal and external equity; and (7) business and organizational needs.
• The salary range is what we believe to be the range of possible compensation for this role at the time of this posting. We may ultimately pay more or less than the posted range and this range is only applicable for jobs to be performed in California, Colorado, New York or remote jobs that can be performed in California, Colorado and New York. This range may be modified in the future.
• You will be eligible to participate in Sandisk's Short-Term Incentive (STI) Plan, which provides incentive awards based on Company and individual performance. Depending on your role and your performance, you may be eligible to participate in our annual Long-Term Incentive (LTI) program, which consists of restricted stock units (RSUs) or cash equivalents, pursuant to the terms of the LTI plan. Please note that not all roles are eligible to participate in the LTI program, and not all roles are eligible for equity under the LTI plan. RSU awards are also available to eligible new hires, subject to Sandisk's Standard Terms and Conditions for Restricted Stock Unit Awards.
• We offer a comprehensive package of benefits including paid vacation time; paid sick leave; medical/dental/vision insurance; life, accident and disability insurance; tax-advantaged flexible spending and health savings accounts; employee assistance program; other voluntary benefit programs such as supplemental life and AD&D, legal plan, pet insurance, critical illness, accident and hospital indemnity; tuition reimbursement; transit; the Applause Program, employee stock purchase plan, and the Sandisk's Savings 401(k) Plan.
• Note: No amount of pay is considered to be wages or compensation until such amount is earned, vested, and determinable. The amount and availability of any bonus, commission, benefits, or any other form of compensation and benefits that are allocable to a particular employee remains in the Company's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified at the Company’s sole discretion, consistent with the law.