Company: DMRC
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form Type: 10-K
Source: 0001437749-25-005471
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Company: Digimarc CORP
Filing Date: 2025-02-27
Form: 10-K
Item: Item 1
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 locations, considering both the company and departmental needs, and those of our staff.

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Giving Back to Our Communities 

At Digimarc, giving back to our communities isn’t just an act of goodwill—it’s part of our identity. In 2024, we launched our Month of Giving, empowering employees to volunteer with organizations they’re passionate about. As part of this initiative, our Beaverton team came together to support a local soup kitchen, making a meaningful difference in the lives of those we serve.

Compensation and Benefits

Our compensation program is designed to support, reinforce, and align our values, business strategy, and operational and financial goals of profitable growth and appreciation of our value in the public equity markets.

Digimarc’s compensation program is designed to pay all our employees fairly for their performance and contributions. We do this by balancing a wide variety of important internal and external factors aligned to our Company culture and values. Compensation and benefits are reviewed against the market annually, at a minimum. In 2024, we engaged a third-party consultant to review our compensation bands and ensure we are offering competitive compensation packages. Through this engagement we enhanced our benchmarks to align with public SaaS companies.

We strive to provide a base salary and restricted stock units that are competitive with the market and compensate above market for outstanding performance. The Company uses restricted stock units to incentivize candidates and high performing employees that contribute to the strategic goals of the Company and drive Company value. Performance stock units are used with our executive management team and are awarded based upon delivering established financial and strategic goals. Equity incentive compensation promotes a sense of ownership and reinforces our philosophy that all employees are valued shareholders in the long-term success of the business. In alignment with our Company culture, we strive to communicate openly about the objectives of the Company and the design of the compensation program. The compensation process is intended to be fair so that all employees and managers understand the goals and the outcomes of the process.

We are committed to administering the compensation program in a manner that is transparent, consistent, and free of discrimination. We post salary ranges for new positions and do not ask for the previous salary history of our candidates. We promote internal mobility and commit to transparency in how we level and promote our employees.

We also believe that employees require time to balance the many needs of their lives, both at work and outside of work. Our policies for Paid Time Off (“PTO”) are designed to provide employees with time off for vacation, sick days, or other personal reasons. Full