Total Rewards Manager

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Costa Rica.

📋 Description

• Develop and sustain intricate models for salary bands, market pricing, geographic differentials, and allocation of merit/promotion budgets.

• Utilize enterprise AI platforms like Claude and ChatGPT to assess workforce datasets, synthesize compensation survey benchmarks, analyze market trends, and automate data transformation workflows.

• Model executive total compensation, performance metrics for short-term incentives, and strategies for long-term incentive grants.

• Create and model global equity frameworks, which include refresh plans, grant guidelines, vesting schedules, and budget allocations.

• Set up workflows for equity grant approvals, board consent materials, vesting schedules, and reconciliation between equity systems and the HRIS.

• Employ Carta and internal analytics tools to model scenarios for wealth creation and executive equity utilization.

• Collaboratively design, test, manage, and implement Workday Compensation and Advanced Compensation workflows, eligibility criteria, and global merit cycle rollouts.

• Ensure seamless data flow between Workday, payroll systems, survey platforms, and analytical databases.

• Design, construct, and audit Workday custom reports, matrix reports, and calculated fields.

• Use BigQuery to query, analyze, and transform large-scale datasets.

• Promote the adoption of total rewards initiatives, updates to merit, changes in pay transparency, and rollouts of compensation programs.

• Create manager guidebooks, FAQ documents, presentation decks, and video walkthroughs.

• Design and conduct training sessions for managers, Talent Acquisition, HR Business Partners, and employees.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 6 years of progressive experience in compensation analysis, equity strategy, or People Analytics, with proven expertise at a senior/principal individual contributor level.

• A successful history of designing and modeling global compensation and equity programs in collaboration with Finance within a fast-paced or scaling technology setting.

• Proven experience in change management and driving enablement programs, including the creation of training materials and leading educational workshops for cross-functional teams.

• Direct hands-on experience with Workday Core Compensation and Advanced Compensation modules is essential.

• Advanced skills in Excel and Google Suite, including VBA/macros, dynamic arrays, and complex formulas, are required.

• Strong familiarity with Carta for cap table analytics, grant administration, and LTI modeling is highly preferred.

• Experience using LLM tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or Microsoft Copilot for data analysis, code generation, or report generation is strongly preferred.

• Familiarity with BI and BigQuery tools for data modeling is a significant advantage.

• Exceptional capability to build cross-functional partnerships encompassing Finance, Legal, Stock Administration, and Systems Engineering.

• Profound familiarity with statistical techniques such as regression analysis and distribution metrics as applied to compensation and equity datasets.

• Solid understanding of fundamental compensation and equity design concepts.

• A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Data Analytics, Finance, Human Resources, or a related field is preferred.

• CCP (Certified Compensation Professional) certification is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% employer-covered medical insurance (may vary by country and worker type).

• Generous paid time-off policy (PTO).

• Paid sick leave.

• Inclusive parental leave policy.

• Holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest.

• Volunteer days off.

• RSU stock grants (may vary by country and worker type).

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Company-sponsored virtual happy hours.

• Complimentary food.

• Enjoyable team-building activities.

• Monthly cell phone stipend.

• Access to an innovative mental health support platform providing therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for eligible employees and their covered dependents.