Head of Total Reward & Compensation Strategy

Epassi; Barcelona; Hybrid; EUR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Epassi is hiring a Head of Total Reward to own job architecture, compensation, benefits, and pay transparency across the company. You will work with the CPO, People BPs, Finance, and Legal to scale rewards as we grow in multiple markets. A hybrid role with occasional travel is expected.

You’ll build and lead a small team, design scalable reward processes, and drive compliant, market-aligned pay programs while ensuring clear communication of reward decisions.

Qualifications

• Extensive experience as a reward leader in fast-paced, high-growth European companies.
• Strong analytical rigour and attention to detail in data work.
• Bias for pace and ability to deliver results quickly.
• Confidence presenting and storytelling to diverse audiences.
• Advanced Excel/Sheets skills; experience with AI tools.

Responsibilities

• Iterate and evolve the job architecture framework with levelling and benchmarking.
• Automate benchmarking to keep a live market position view.
• Analyze total compensation across IC, people leaders and executives annually.
• Review benefits options market-by-market and plan funding.
• Design and implement end-to-end compensation review with enablement support.
• Ensure compliance with pay transparency and employment tax in partnership with Finance/Legal.
• Build and maintain AI-backed knowledge resources for pay decisions.
• Lead and run employee sessions to communicate reward philosophy.

Skills

Reward strategy

Benchmarking

Data analysis

Pay transparency

Team leadership

Tools

Excel/Sheets

AI tools

Job description

Epassi is hiring a Head of Total Reward to own job architecture, compensation, benefits, and pay transparency across the company. You will work with the CPO, People BPs, Finance, and Legal to scale rewards as we grow in multiple markets. A hybrid role with occasional travel is expected.

You’ll build and lead a small team, design scalable reward processes, and drive compliant, market-aligned pay programs while ensuring clear communication of reward decisions.