VP, Total Rewards – People Operations

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

📋 Description

• Lead, develop, and motivate a global team focused on compensation, benefits, people operations, and HR systems.

• Create a high-performing organization characterized by clear ownership, accountability, transparency, and team development.

• Oversee the compensation philosophy, structure, and programs, which include base pay, variable pay, and equity.

• Direct the executive compensation strategy and collaborate with the Compensation Committee and Board of Directors.

• Prepare compensation materials and provide guidance on program design in partnership with external consultants and advisors.

• Design and refine equity programs, including establishing guidelines, strategy for refresh, managing burn rate, dilution, and future initiatives.

• Align pay practices with public company standards, ensuring governance, readiness for disclosure, and conducting pay equity analysis.

• Ensure compliance with evolving pay transparency regulations across various jurisdictions.

• Manage the global benefits strategy across over two dozen countries.

• Oversee relationships with brokers, carriers, and vendors, including renewals, plan design, and evaluating program effectiveness.

• Standardize benefits across the merged organization.

• Lead the strategy for people operations, HRIS, and people systems, utilizing tools, automation, and AI.

• Manage the global employee lifecycle from onboarding to offboarding.

• Enhance data integrity and people analytics.

• Collaborate with Finance, Legal, and IT on payroll, global employment entities, EOR strategy, and internal controls.

• Provide counsel to the executive team on rewards and operational decisions.

• Simplify complex trade-offs into clear recommendations and communicate rewards decisions transparently to employees.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of progressive experience in total rewards or people operations, with substantial experience leading these functions at the VP level or equivalent.

• Proven track record as a seasoned, mature people leader who has successfully built and scaled high-performing, efficient teams.

• Extensive experience managing employee and executive compensation, including direct collaboration with a Compensation Committee and Board of Directors.

• Background in leading global benefits across multiple countries in a complex, multinational setting.

• Experience overseeing people operations and HR technology, with a strong perspective on developing scalable functions through systems.

• Strong enterprise experience at a company of our size or larger, preferably in the high-growth B2B software or technology sector.

• Authentic and straightforward operating style.

• Quick and decisive decision-making approach.

• Sound and pragmatic judgment.

• People-first leadership philosophy.

• Builder's mindset.

🏝️ Benefits

• 100% employer-covered medical insurance.

• Generous paid time off, which includes paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation based on role and location.

• Paid sick leave.

• Inclusive parental leave.

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

• Volunteer days off.

• RSU stock grants.

• Opportunities for professional development and training.

• Company-hosted virtual happy hours, complimentary food, and engaging team-building activities.

• Monthly cell phone allowance.

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