Executive Compensation Associate

Sterlington, PLLC • Miami, FL

7d • Remote

About The Position

Sterlington PLLC is a full-service law firm focusing on complex corporate, litigation, executive compensation, and private wealth matters. The firm emphasizes both the economic and legal aspects of its cases. Sterlington is positioned as a premier law firm for founders, senior executives, UHNWIs, and their related businesses. This role offers the opportunity to work directly with two market-leading Executive Compensation partners on sophisticated, transaction-driven compensation work. The position is within a lean, agile platform providing significant autonomy and flexibility compared to traditional BigLaw structures. The Associate will play a key role in advising on executive compensation and employee benefits issues critical to complex corporate transactions and sensitive executive matters, offering high visibility with direct partner interaction and meaningful client exposure.

Requirements

• 4–8 years of executive compensation and employee benefits experience
• Experience at an Am Law 50 or comparably sophisticated practice preferred
• Strong experience in transaction-related compensation matters
• Excellent technical skills in tax and ERISA aspects of executive compensation
• Ability to operate independently in a fast-paced, high-level advisory environment

Responsibilities

• Advising on executive compensation and employee benefits issues in connection with M&A, private equity transactions, IPOs, joint ventures, and restructurings
• Counseling founders, CEOs, senior executives, and boards on executive employment and retention agreements, equity incentive and carried interest structures, deferred compensation and incentive arrangements, change-in-control and termination protections, and performance-based compensation design
• Providing strategic guidance on tax and ERISA considerations, including equity compensation and nonqualified deferred compensation programs
• Supporting compensation aspects of complex and often confidential corporate events

Benefits

• Medical insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• 401(k)-retirement program

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees