Total Rewards Lead — Equity, Benefits & Remote Work

Bestow; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Flexible remote/hybrid

100% paid-premium health/dental/vision

Lifestyle stipend

Parental leave

Remote work options and Dallas office

Job summary

Bestow is building a dedicated Total Rewards function and seeks a hands-on Total Rewards Manager to own pay, equity, and benefits end to end. You’ll configure Pave, benchmark against market data, and partner with Finance, Legal, and the board to scale with the company.

This role blends strategy with execution, shaping job leveling, merit and bonus cycles, equity administration, and geographic pay ranges as Bestow grows from 100 to 250 employees.

Qualifications

• 5-8+ years in compensation, total rewards, or a closely related HR discipline.
• Direct experience with equity administration at venture-backed or newly-public company.
• Hands-on experience with a comp benchmarking/planning platform (Pave).
• Experience with equity programs: grant sizing, refresh/retention, and board materials.
• Strong Excel/analytical capabilities and cross-functional collaboration.

Responsibilities

• Own Pave end to end: benchmark configuration, comp cycle setup, data integrity between BambooHR and Pave.
• Manage the Total Rewards assessment & roadmap: audit current comp/benefits philosophy, market positioning, tooling.
• Maintain and refresh salary bands: anchor benchmarking philosophy; review flagged band outliers by job family.
• Partner on job leveling: bring consistency to a leveling framework.
• Own the bi-annual merit, promotion & bonus cycle: design and execution in Pave with Finance budgets.
• Equity Administration: maintain equity database in collaboration with Legal and Finance.
• Manage overall equity program: market benchmarking, analytics, and end-to-end equity cycles.
• Assess geographic pay ranges: justify ranges as the workforce becomes distributed.
• Own benefits strategy: renewal strategy, plan design changes, broker collaboration.

Skills

Equity administration

Total rewards

Compensation

Job leveling

Equity analytics

Excel/analysis

Cross-functional partnership

Benefits strategy

Tools

Pave

Radford

BambooHR

Carta

Job description

Bestow is building a dedicated Total Rewards function and seeks a hands-on Total Rewards Manager to own pay, equity, and benefits end to end. You’ll configure Pave, benchmark against market data, and partner with Finance, Legal, and the board to scale with the company.

This role blends strategy with execution, shaping job leveling, merit and bonus cycles, equity administration, and geographic pay ranges as Bestow grows from 100 to 250 employees.