Equity Administrator

Position Overview

• Location Type: Remote (with 2 days/week in-office requirement for NY or SF locations)
• Job Type: Full-Time
• Salary: $110.5K - $288K

Patreon is a media and community platform where creators give their biggest fans access to exclusive work and experiences. Over 300k creators are cultivating fandoms and building their businesses each month. Creators can offer free memberships to fans looking to explore more of their work, paid memberships to give access to exclusive media and community, or sell directly to fans with Shops. Ultimately our goal is simple: fund the creative class. And we're leaders in that space, with: - 8B+ earned since Patreon's inception - 30M free new memberships in the first year of launching that option, and - 10M fans paying each month for exclusive access to creators' work and community.

We're continuing to invest heavily in building the best creator products with the best team in the creator economy and are looking for an Equity Administrator to support our mission. This role is based in New York or San Francisco and open to those who are able to be in-office 2 days per week on a hybrid work model or Remote.

About the Team

The Equity Administrator will report to the Deputy General Counsel, but work most closely with the Associate General Counsel, Corporate & Securities. The role will also require frequent collaboration with our accounting, tax, human resources and payroll teams.

About the Role

As Equity Administrator at Patreon, you will: - Serve as a key resource for building and maintaining equity best practices. - Manage the end-to-end grant process, including coordination with human resources to prepare equity grants for approval. - Process all equity grants, terminations, exercises, and secondary sale transactions in Carta. - Manage the health of a large cap table, and provide a high level of customer service in responding to inquiries from investors and employees. - Ensure that the structure of the equity plan and awards are appropriate for international jurisdictions through liaising with human resources and tax teams. - Create robust documentation of processes and maintain comprehensive documentation for employee education purposes. - Manage payroll-related and other reporting obligations relating to equity activity on a global basis. - Maintain regular reporting to management to provide insight into share transfer activities and manage all proposed share transfers. - Manage accounting for equity compensation and other equity related activities. - Build scalable systems for equity administration as we grow.

About You

• Experience: 5+ years of relevant work experience, ideally with both private and public companies.
• Equity Knowledge: Experience with stock options and restricted stock units.
• Software: Experience working in Carta or other similar equity management software.
• Skills: Experience with Excel with large amounts of data.
• Accounting: Experience with accounting for equity compensation, including the preparation of reconciliations and journal entries.
• Communication: Excellent written and verbal communication skills; able to effectively communicate across departments and at all levels.
• Legal/Tax: Familiarity with legal, tax and compliance concepts relevant to equity.
• Attributes: Exceptional attention to detail.
• Preferred: CEP designation.

Application Instructions

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Company Information

Patreon powers creators to do what they love and get paid by the people who love what they do. Our team is passionate about making this mission and our core values come to life every day in our work. Through this work, our Patronauts: - Put Creators First: They’re the reason we’re here. When creators win, we win. - Build with Craft: We sign our name to every deliverable, just like the creators we serve.