Director Total Rewards

JGA Recruitment Group | B Corp™; United States; On-site; USD 220,000 - 320,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual L&D stipend

Annual social travel stipend + offsite

Monthly co-working stipend

Job summary

JGA Recruitment Group is building out a global compensation function for a fast-growing AI tech company. You will own compensation strategy, equity design, and job architecture across 46+ countries, partnering with Operations, Legal and Finance to ensure market competitiveness and internal equity.

You’ll run annual cycles, calibrations, and governance while shaping a scalable total rewards program. The role requires 5–10 years in Compensation/Total Rewards, with hands-on experience in equity,

Qualifications

• 5–10 years in Compensation/Total Rewards, ideally in high-growth tech across multiple countries.
• Genuine equity programme ownership, design, grant strategy, refresh and promotion grants.
• Track record building comp frameworks and job architecture from scratch or substantial redesigns.

Responsibilities

• Own and evolve compensation strategy, philosophy and equity structure for 46+ countries.
• Lead job architecture and leveling across diverse roles while avoiding bureaucracy.
• Run annual compensation reviews end-to-end; calibrate and resolve leveling and pay decisions.
• Own global benefits strategy, balancing standardisation with regional relevance.

Skills

Compensation strategy

Job architecture

Equity design

Global benchmarking

Total rewards

Job description

Competitive Salary + Equity (Disclosed after application)

Skeleton framework in place, needing someone to build out and transform a global function.

You'll be the single point of accountability for compensation architecture globally, partnering closely with Operations, Legal and Finance to design systems that are competitive in frontier AI markets, internally consistent, and built to scale.

Company:

Fastest-growing AI tech company.

$10B valuation

Scaling to 1,000+ people by the end of 2026, across 46+ countries.

What you'll own

• Compensation strategy & philosophy: own and evolve it, balancing market competitiveness with internal equity and financial discipline
• Job architecture & levelling: bring rigor without bureaucracy, across 46+ countries and a hugely diverse set of roles
• Equity & long-term incentives: own the equity philosophy, structure and grant strategy, partnering with Finance and Legal on design, refreshes and promotion grants
• Compensation cycles & governance: run annual reviews end-to-end, build calibration rigor, act as final escalation point for levelling and pay decisions
• Benefits & total rewards: own global benefits strategy, balancing standardisation with regional relevance

What they're looking for

• 5–10 years in Compensation/Total Rewards, ideally in high-growth tech across multiple countries
• Genuine equity programme ownership, design, grant strategy, refresh and promotion grants
• Track record building comp frameworks and job architecture from scratch (or significantly redesigning them)
• Global benchmarking experience across countries and talent markets
• Hands-on builder, not a purely managerial background, comfortable being the main comp expert in the business
• Big 4 backgrounds who've since moved into a tech scale-up very welcome
• RemCo/Exec Comp or IPO-readiness exposure a strong plus, not essential
• Commercial and pragmatic, thrives in fast-moving, ambiguous environments rather than heavy process

What else is on offer

• Innovative, high-velocity culture, impact over job titles
• Annual L&D stipend
• Annual social travel stipend + company-wide offsite (past locations: Croatia, Italy)
• Monthly co-working stipend if you're not near a hub

Ready to build compensation from the ground up at one of the fastest-growing AI companies in the world?

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