Senior Director, Total Rewards: Build Pay & Benefits

Specialized; Plano (TX); On-site; USD 155,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) plan

Health coverage

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Job summary

Specialized is building a modern Total Rewards function to support our 9,000‑person, multi‑brand workforce — corporate and front‑line alike — as we scale toward the next phase. We are seeking a Senior Director, Total Rewards to own this build: establishing job architecture, designing compensation bands and incentive structures, and administering benefits programs across every population.

This hands‑on role will design frameworks, benchmark them to the market, operationalize them in Workday HCM,

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive experience in Total Rewards, Compensation & Benefits, or HR Operations, including hands-on job architecture and compensation band design and people leadership experience.
• Demonstrated expertise designing compensation programs — base pay structures, bonus/STI plans, and market benchmarking — with experience using Korn Ferry, Mercer, WorldatWork, or comparable survey data.
• Proven background spanning executive compensation (pay philosophy, benchmarking, and incentive design for senior leadership), sales compensation design (quota-based incentive plans, pay mix, and plan governance), and broad-based compensation (job architecture and pay structures for the general employee population).
• Experience administering employee benefits programs — including 401(k)/retirement plan administration — and vendor relationships; experience designing or launching new benefits programs strongly preferred.
• Hands-on Workday HCM experience required, ideally including the Compensation, Advanced Compensation, and Benefits modules; HRIS configuration and governance experience strongly preferred.
• Bachelor’s degree required; CCP, CBP, or SHRM/HRCI certification preferred.

Responsibilities

• Design, document, and govern Specialized's job architecture — job families, career ladders, and a consistent leveling framework across all levels.
• Own the design, market benchmarking, and ongoing maintenance of base pay compensation bands across the full spectrum of the organization — broad-based/all-employee programs, sales compensation, and executive compensation.
• Design and administer bonus/short-term incentive (STI) structures across job families and levels, including plan mechanics, payout calculations, and governance, in partnership with Finance.
• Lead the annual performance review cycle and merit increase process end-to-end — calibration, budget allocation and modeling, manager enablement and tools, and timeline management.
• Own the benefits function: administer and continuously improve existing plans (medical, dental, vision, 401(k)/retirement, and related programs) for the full employee population, and identify, design, and launch new benefits programs that strengthen Specialized's overall value proposition.
• Serve as the functional business owner of Workday HCM for Compensation, Advanced Compensation, Benefits, and Performance — partnering with HRIS/IT on configuration, testing, data integrity, and continuous improvement.
• Partner closely with the Chief People Officer, and with Talent Acquisition, Workforce, and Operations leadership, to ensure Total Rewards programs support workforce planning, retention, and engagement goals across the business.
• Build and lead a Total Rewards team as the function scales.
• Prepare and present program designs, benchmarking findings, and recommendations to executive leadership and ownership.

Skills

Total Rewards

Compensation design

Benefits programs

Executive communication

Workday HCM

Leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

CCP certification

CBP certification

SHRM/HRCI certification

Tools

Workday HCM

Job description

Specialized is building a modern Total Rewards function to support our 9,000‑person, multi‑brand workforce — corporate and front‑line alike — as we scale toward the next phase. We are seeking a Senior Director, Total Rewards to own this build: establishing job architecture, designing compensation bands and incentive structures, and administering benefits programs across every population.

This hands‑on role will design frameworks, benchmark them to the market, operationalize them in Workday HCM,