Global Rewards & Equity Architect

Volta; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity in Volta

Retirement contributions

Health, wellbeing and insurance

Generous vacation

Competitive salary

Job summary

Volta is seeking a Head of Total Rewards to build and scale our global reward framework. You will own compensation, equity and benefits programs across multiple countries, partnering with Finance and the Executive Team to drive governance, cost discipline and competitive total rewards.

As the first dedicated rewards expert, you’ll design salary bands, benefit strategies, equity guidelines and the annual review cycle, ensuring consistency and compliance while enabling rapid international growth.

Qualifications

• Demonstrable experience owning compensation and benefits in a scaling tech organization.
• Hands-on experience with North American and European compensation and benefits.
• Proven ownership of a salary benchmarking approach: market pricing, range build and maintenance.
• Experience running an annual salary review or merit cycle end to end, including budget modeling and manager communication.
• Working knowledge of employee equity plans and how equity fits within total reward.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to advise and influence the Executive Team, Finance and Talent Acquisition.
• Excellent analytical skills, comfortable building and presenting reward data, modeling and commercial insight.
• REQ-152

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain salary bands, job architecture and benchmarking.
• Review offers and salary changes for consistency and governance.
• Act as the reward escalation point for Talent Acquisition and hiring managers.
• Own the benefits philosophy and design Volta's global benefits strategy country by country.
• Lead the selection, negotiation and roll-out of benefits programs in new and existing markets.
• Run day-to-day benefits administration, including US medical and 401(k), UK pension and risk benefits and European statutory and supplementary provision.
• Own end-to-end design and delivery of the annual salary and bonus review cycle.
• Develop bonus frameworks, incentive schemes and recognition programs.
• Set and benchmark equity grant guidelines by level and geography with Finance
• Ensure reward decisions comply with internal governance and global employment legislation.

Skills

Compensation strategy

Benefits design

Salary benchmarking

Budget modeling

Executive communication

Stakeholder management

Equity knowledge

Job description

Volta is seeking a Head of Total Rewards to build and scale our global reward framework. You will own compensation, equity and benefits programs across multiple countries, partnering with Finance and the Executive Team to drive governance, cost discipline and competitive total rewards.

As the first dedicated rewards expert, you’ll design salary bands, benefit strategies, equity guidelines and the annual review cycle, ensuring consistency and compliance while enabling rapid international growth.