Head of Equity Administration

San Mateo · 10+ years experience · Full-time · Hybrid · Posted Sep 29, 2026

At a glance

Fireworks is the platform for specialized intelligence, enabling companies to build, train, and serve AI models tailored to their own data, workflows, and products. Founded by the team behind PyTorch and backed by AMD, Atreides, Benchmark Capital, Index Ventures, Lightspeed, NVIDIA, Sequoia Capital, and TCV, Fireworks powers production AI with hundreds of state-of-the-art open models across text, image, embedding, audio, and multimodal workloads. Today, Fireworks is a Series D company valued at $17.5 billion, bringing together an ambitious, collaborative team that's building the future of enterprise AI.

We are seeking a highly experienced Head of Equity Administration to own and scale our global equity administration function as we prepare for the next stage of growth and potential public-company readiness.
This leader will be responsible for the end-to-end administration, governance, controls, reporting, and employee experience associated with our equity programs.
The role will partner closely with Legal, Finance, Accounting, Tax, People, Payroll, Compensation, and senior leadership, and will play a critical role in building the infrastructure, processes, and controls required for a complex late-stage private company and future public company.

Own the day-to-day and strategic administration of the company’s equity compensation programs, including stock options, RSUs, restricted stock, and other equity-based awards.
Manage the complete equity lifecycle, including grants, vesting, exercises, releases, cancellations, terminations, repurchases, transfers, and settlement.
Maintain accurate equity records, capitalization data, participant information, and supporting documentation.
Oversee equity administration platforms, workflows, integrations, and vendor relationships.
Establish scalable policies, procedures, controls, and service-level standards for equity administration.
Serve as a key functional leader in IPO-readiness efforts related to equity compensation and capitalization.
Assess current processes and implement the systems, controls, governance, and documentation required to operate effectively as a public company.
Ensure equity administration processes comply with applicable securities, tax, accounting, and corporate governance requirements.
Partner with Accounting on stock-based compensation reporting, reconciliations, audit support, and financial close processes.
Build and lead a high-performing equity administration function capable of supporting the company through IPO and beyond.

10+ years of progressive experience in stock administration, equity compensation, legal operations, compensation, finance, or a related field, with substantial direct ownership of equity administration.
Significant experience supporting a late-stage private company, public company, IPO process, or major capital-markets transaction.
Deep knowledge of equity compensation vehicles and administration, including stock options and RSUs.
Strong understanding of equity-related securities, tax, payroll, accounting, and governance considerations.
Experience with ASC 718 and equity-related financial reporting and controls.
Familiarity with public-company requirements such as Section 16, Rule 10b5-1 plans, insider trading controls, and SOX environments.
Demonstrated experience with equity administration platforms such as Morgan Stanley at Work/Shareworks or Fidelity, Carta, E*TRADE, Computershare, or similar systems.
Strong analytical skills and ability to manage complex datasets and reconciliations.
Exceptional attention to detail, judgment, organization, and discretion.
Strong executive communication skills and the ability to partner effectively across Legal, Finance, Accounting, Tax, Payroll, HR, and Compensation.

Experience administering equity programs for a global employee population strongly preferred.
CEP designation or similar equity compensation credential.
Experience leading equity administration through an IPO.
Experience implementing or migrating equity administration platforms.
Experience establishing SOX-compliant equity processes and controls.
Experience launching an ESPP or other public-company equity programs.
Experience managing equity programs across multiple international jurisdictions.