Total Rewards Manager (12 month FTC)

Culture Amp; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity via ESOP

Learning programs

Wellbeing allowance

Parental leave

MacBook and home workspace budget

Social impact days

Medical insurance (US & UK only)

Job summary

Culture Amp is seeking a Total Rewards Manager on a 12-month fixed-term contract to lead compensation and benefits across APAC, US, and EMEA. You’ll govern salary ranges, run annual cycles, and support equity programs while partnering with Finance, Legal, and Talent Acquisition to ensure fair and scalable rewards decisions.

You will mentor a small rewards team and drive governance, analytics, and policy improvements to stay ahead of market trends and regulatory requirements.

Qualifications

• Experience as Total Rewards/Benefits leader across salary, variable pay, equity, and band architecture.
• Hands-on reward management across multiple geographies with local compliance.
• Strong analytical skills: compa-ratio, pay mix, outlier detection.
• Ownership of annual comp/promo cycles and range updates.
• Policy and governance skills with clear stakeholder communication.

Responsibilities

• Lead and mentor a small Total Rewards team.
• Support APAC, US, and EMEA teams on global rewards and benefits.
• Oversee annual compensation and promotion cycles end-to-end.
• Govern salary ranges and market benchmarking updates.
• Manage equity lifecycle and ESOP administration.
• Partner with Finance for cycle guardrails and spend tracking.
• Drive pay equity analyses and remediation recommendations.
• Strengthen governance, policies, and compliance in rewards.
• Develop manager enablement resources on compensation basics.
• Collaborate with People, Legal, and Talent Acquisition for alignment.

Skills

Total Rewards leadership

Global compensation

Data analysis

Cross-functional partnership

Policy governance

Tools

Excel

Job description

We’re big believers in the power of IRL, so for most roles we ask Campers to work from their local Culture Amp office an average of 2 days a week to unlock connection, pace and culture together.

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,000 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high‑performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

As a Total Rewards Manager, you’ll manage fair, equitable, and market‑aligned compensation & benefits programs that enable great decisions and a great employee experience. You’ll partner across People, Finance, Legal, and Talent Acquisition to run company‑wide compensation and promotion cycles, maintain and evolve salary ranges and governance, deliver variable & equity compensation programmes, support global benefit programs and scale manager enablement so leaders can make confident, consistent decisions. This role would be perfect for someone who has solid experience across all aspects of Total Reward and is looking to take on more responsibility and ownership of Reward related activity.

This role is a 12 month fixed term contract.

As part of this team of amazing humans,

You will

• Manage and mentor a small Total Rewards team to ensure the effective execution of all programs.
• Support team members based in APAC, the US and EMEA with a focus on both global Total Rewards and Benefits.
• Lead the annual compensation and promotion cycle end-to-end (planning, enablement, calibration support, reporting), ensuring consistency and equity across regions.
• Own salary range governance and market benchmarking updates, partnering with TA and People Partners to keep offers and in‑range moves aligned to our philosophy and budget.
• Run pay equity and cohort analyses; identify risks/outliers and drive pragmatic remediation recommendations leaders can act on.
• Strengthen rewards governance, policy, and compliance (e.g., bonus eligibility rules, exception processes), with clear, timely communications for leaders and employees.
• Build and deliver manager enablement (guides, FAQs, training) on compensation fundamentals (bands, compa‑ratio, pay mix, equity basics) to raise decision quality at scale.
• Manage the employee equity lifecycle, including ESOP grants, platform administration, data integrity, leaver and transfer processes, governance and employee guidance; support variable-pay design and rollout.
• Partner with Finance to set cycle guardrails and track spend; bring tight controls and auditability to all rewards processes.
• Monitor market and regulatory trends to evolve our total rewards process and stay ahead of external shifts in pay expectations, pay transparency, and compliance.
• Partner with the People Operations team to build strong connections between Reward and People Ops, streamlining processes and improving the way we deliver for our people.

You have

• Previous experience as a strong Total Rewards & Benefits professional with a desire to take on more ownership and step into a leadership role. Experience in compensation/total rewards across salary, variable pay, equity and band architecture in scaling environments.
• Hands‑on experience managing reward activity across multiple geographies, aligning policies and processes while meeting local compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical skills (e.g., compa‑ratio, pay mix, outlier detection, simple cohort modeling) and high standards for data quality.
• Proven ownership of annual comp/promo cycles, range updates, and exception processes with clear stakeholder communication.
• Policy and governance skills—able to write pragmatic policies and implement controls that balance speed and rigor.
• Strong cross‑functional partnership with People Partners, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and Legal; credible with senior leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication—able to simplify complex topics for non‑experts and enable decisions.
• Experience working across multiple countries or jurisdictions is advantageous; direct US experience is helpful but not essential.

You are

• Values‑led, data‑driven, and systems‑minded, with strong judgment and a bias to action.
• Inclusive and equity‑focused; you design for fairness and transparency.
• Adaptive and continuously improving—using feedback and insights to raise the bar each cycle

Perks & Benefits

At Culture Amp, our people are at the heart of our success. We offer competitive pay and a total rewards package designed to support you at work and in life. This includes:

• Equity through our Employee Share Option Program, so you can share in our long‑term success
• Learning programs and coaching to help you thrive and grow
• Quarterly refresh days, an extended end-of-year break and a monthly allowance to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Inclusive parental leave from day one
• A MacBook and budget to set up your home workspace, enabling flexibility
• Five annual social impact days to to give back to causes that matter to you
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)

Our rewards are designed to support different needs and life stages, recognising that what matters most can vary from person to person.

Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement, but your unique experience matters.

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