Compensation Program Lead

Lululemon; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 88,000 - 115,800; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health and dental benefits

Paid time off

Retirement plan matching

Generous employee discount

Fitness & yoga classes

Parenthood top-up

Development course offerings

Job summary

lululemon is seeking a Compensation Program Lead in Canada (Vancouver) to shape our foundational compensation programs, focusing on job architecture and alignment with job evaluation processes. You will partner with Finance, Legal, HRIS, and P&C teams to enable scalable, compliant frameworks and self-service governance.

The role requires 5–8 years of compensation experience, strong Excel skills, and experience with HRIS (Workday preferred).

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in compensation.
• Experience implementing and evolving enterprise-wide frameworks (job architecture highly desirable).
• Ability to translate complex people and organizational data into actionable insights for leaders.

Responsibilities

• Execute evolution of global job architecture strategy, ensuring flexibility and scalability.
• Governance and delivery of Job Architecture frameworks for people lifecycle activities.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to operationalise the job architecture framework and support compensation partners and P&C teams.
• Manage day-to-day upkeep of job architecture framework and create new job families/profiles.
• Upskill and deliver education materials to evolve job evaluation framework to a self-service model with governance.

Skills

Compensation experience

Job architecture

Data insights

Consultation skills

Excel (Advanced)

Education

Post-secondary degree in HR

Tools

Workday

Avature

Dayforce

Job description

Compensation Program Lead

Location: Canada

State/Province/City: British Columbia

City: Vancouver

Business Unit: Store Support Centre (SSC)

Time Type: Full-time

Description & Requirements

who we are

lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we're in. As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.

about this team

As part of the Compensation team and reporting to the Manager, Compensation, this role is a unique opportunity to shape foundational compensation programs at lululemon. This role is responsible for leading our job architecture program of work and is a key player in supporting to creating efficiencies between this body of work and our job evaluation processes and supporting our compensation partners and the broader P&C teams to enable the future growth of our business.

core responsibilities

• Execute the evolution of lululemon's global job architecture strategy, ensuring it is able to be flexible and scale with the changing requirements of our business, supports workforce planning, enables career progression, and provides a strong foundation for compensation, talent, and organizational design decisions.
• Leading the governance and delivery of our Job Architecture frameworks, as a critical foundation for a wide range of people lifecycle activities.
• Partnering with cross functional teams such as Workforce planning, Business Partners, Operational P&C teams, Employment Compliance and Legal and Learning & Leadership in operationalising our job architecture framework and helping them solve their challenges through our framework.
• Manage the day-to-day upkeep of our job architecture framework i.e. job architecture queries, internal resource documentation, creation of new job families and job profiles as required.
• Upskill and support in education and training materials and delivery with the business/ broader P&C business stakeholders to evolve our job evaluation framework into a fully self-service model whilst ensuring governance and rigour is brought to our Job Architecture practices.
• Be part of the evolution and change management of how lululemon can utilize job architecture to further support our broader P&C teams and business.
• Be a key player in the evolution of our job evaluation processes, creating efficiencies between the two programs through resource creation, managing job evaluation requests, process mapping and workflow optimisation.
• Lead/support future compensation programs and projects as needed.

qualifications

• 5–8 years of experience in compensation, ideally in a multinational environment.
• Experience in implementing and evolving enterprise-wide frameworks (experience with managing a job architecture framework is highly desirable).
• Ability to translate complex people and organizational data into actionable insights and recommendations for business leaders.
• Exposure to HRIS systems (Workday ideal) back-end with a curiosity on how the back-end data comes together and integrates into other systems e.g. Avature, Dayforce.
• Detail-oriented and committed to a high degree of accuracy.
• Advanced Excel and highly proficient in Microsoft Office suite.
• Ability to perform multiple tasks and prioritize workload.
• Experience in providing consultation to managers, people professionals, employees, and/or business partners. Experience in a consultancy is a plus.
• Highly ethical and able to deal with confidential issues with tact, discretion & confidentiality.
• Post-secondary degree in a related field. (e.g. HR)

must haves

• Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.
• Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.
• Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.
• Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn’t take yourself too seriously.

additional notes

Authorization to work in Canada is required for this role.

compensation and benefits package

lululemon’s compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and team performance. The typical hiring range for this position is from $88,000–$115,800 annually; the base pay offered is based on market location and may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, experience, and internal equity. As part of our total rewards offering, permanent employees in this position may be eligible for our competitive annual bonus program, subject to program eligibility requirements.

At lululemon, investing in our people is a top priority. We believe that when life works, work works. We strive to be the place where inclusive leaders come to develop and enable all to be well. Recognizing our teams for their performance and dedication, other components of our total rewards offerings include support of career development, wellbeing, and personal growth:

• Extended health and dental benefits, and mental health plans
• Paid time off
• Savings and retirement plan matching
• Generous employee discount
• Fitness & yoga classes
• Parenthood top-up
• Extensive catalog of development course offerings
• People networks, mentorship programs, and leadership series (to name a few)

Note: The incentive programs, benefits, and perks have certain eligibility requirements. The Company reserves the right to alter these incentive programs, benefits, and perks in whole or in part at any time without advance notice.

workplace arrangement

Hybrid

In-person collaboration and connection is important to our culture. Work is performed onsite, minimum 4 days per week.

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Only those applicants under consideration will be contacted. Please accept our utmost appreciation for your interest. Lululemon is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. Employment decisions are based on merit and business needs, and not on race, color, creed, age, sex, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, religion, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, military service, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions or any other classification protected by federal, state or provincial and local laws and ordinances. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request. This Equal Employment Opportunity policy applies to all practices relating to recruitment and hiring, compensation, benefits, discipline, transfer, termination and all other terms and conditions of employment. While management is primarily responsible for seeing that Lululemon equal employment opportunity policies are implemented, you share in the responsibility for assuring that, by your personal actions, the policies are effective.

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