Global Total Rewards Director | Hybrid Work

Winston & Strawn LLP; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 185,000 - 235,000; Full time

Job summary

Winston Taylor seeks an Associate Director of Total Rewards to lead compensation, benefits, and wellbeing strategy. The role designs, delivers, and improves programs aligned with business goals across global offices, ensuring compliance and financial sustainability.

You will partner with London and other international offices to promote alignment while respecting regional market practices. The position requires exceptional relationship-building, executive presence, and the ability to influence

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree required; Advanced degree or professional certification preferred.
• 10+ years of progressive experience leading Total Rewards, Benefits, Compensation, or related HR functions within a complex, professional services organization required.
• Must live within a commutable distance to a local office and be willing to come into the office 3-4 days per week.
• Demonstrated experience designing and administering comprehensive compensation and benefits programs.
• Executive-level written and verbal communication skills, with a proven ability to influence senior stakeholders.
• Advanced analytical capability, with the ability to translate complex data into strategic business recommendations.
• Deep expertise in global benefits regulations, compensation compliance, and evolving industry best practices.
• Client-service orientation with a track record of resolving highly complex organizational challenges with innovative solutions.
• Ability to build credibility and influence senior leaders, exercising sound judgment in complex and sensitive situations.
• Ability to lead through ambiguity, drive organizational change, and gain buy-in for new programs, processes, and strategies
• Ability to connect Total Rewards strategies to business objectives and deliver solutions that support firm performance.
• Demonstrated ability to manage highly confidential information with discretion, professionalism, and sound judgment.

Responsibilities

• Lead compensation analytics, market trend analysis, and reporting efforts to provide leadership with data-driven insights to shape business professional compensation architectures.
• Own the communication strategy for all compensation-related matters, ensuring transparency, equity, and alignment with firm culture.
• Oversee the firm's business professional and paralegal compensation structures, including annual merit, promotional, and market adjustment processes.
• Govern market-pricing strategy and framework for new and existing positions to ensure internal equity and external competitiveness.
• Monitor compensation trends, pay transparency requirements, and emerging market developments to provide strategic recommendations to firm leadership.
• Ensure compensation-related processes, systems and classifications remain compliant with applicable wage and hour regulations.
• Collaborate with Talent, Finance, and business leaders across regions to ensure compensation programs support firm strategy, talent objectives, and a consistent employee experience globally.
• Partner with recruiting leadership to assess market competitiveness and ensure compensation strategies support the firm's talent acquisition and retention goals.

Skills

Executive communication

Analytical thinking

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Change management

Global benefits knowledge

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Advanced degree or professional certification (CEBS, CCP, SPHR)

Job description

Winston Taylor seeks an Associate Director of Total Rewards to lead compensation, benefits, and wellbeing strategy. The role designs, delivers, and improves programs aligned with business goals across global offices, ensuring compliance and financial sustainability.

You will partner with London and other international offices to promote alignment while respecting regional market practices. The position requires exceptional relationship-building, executive presence, and the ability to influence