Total Rewards Manager (12 month FTC)

Culture Amp Pty Ltd; Melbourne (KY); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Share Option Program

Learning programs & coaching

Quarterly refresh days

Extended end-of-year break

Monthly wellbeing allowance

Parental leave from day one

MacBook & home workspace setup

Five annual social impact days

Medical insurance (US & UK)

Job summary

Culture Amp is seeking a Total Rewards Manager for a 12-month fixed term contract. This hybrid role combines global compensation, benefits governance, equity programs, and policy across APAC, US and EMEA.

You will lead a small Rewards team, drive annual cycles, and partner with Finance, Legal, and Talent Acquisition to enable sound, fair decisions. You will mentor, evolve salary ranges, run analytics, and ensure governance while supporting manager enablement and employee equity workflows.

Qualifications

• Strong Total Rewards & Benefits leadership across salary, variable pay, equity and band architecture.
• Hands-on reward management across geographies with local compliance.
• Strong analytical skills: compa-ratio, pay mix, outlier detection.
• Ownership of annual comp/promo cycles, range updates and exceptions.
• Policy and governance to balance speed with rigor.
• Cross-functional partnership with People Partners, Finance, Legal; credible with senior leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication; simplify topics for decisions.
• Experience across countries; US experience helpful.

Responsibilities

• Manage and mentor a small Total Rewards team to ensure effective program execution.
• Support APAC, US and EMEA with global Total Rewards and Benefits.
• Lead annual compensation and promotion cycle end-to-end with planning, calibration, reporting.
• Own salary range governance and market benchmarking updates.
• Run pay equity and cohort analyses; drive remediation recommendations.
• Strengthen rewards governance, policy and compliance with clear communications.
• Build manager enablement on compensation fundamentals for scalable decisions.
• Manage employee equity lifecycle including ESOP grants and governance.
• Partner with Finance to set cycle guardrails and track spend.
• Monitor market and regulatory trends to evolve total rewards processes.
• Partner with People Operations to align Reward and People Ops.

Skills

Total Rewards

Benefits

Leadership

Analytics

Policy & governance

Cross-functional

Communication

Multinational

Job description

We’re big believers in the power of IRL, so for most roles we ask Campers to work from their local Culture Amp office an average of 2 days a week to unlock connection, pace and culture together.

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work.

Culture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,000 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.

Culture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.

For more information visit cultureamp.com.

As a Total Rewards Manager, you’ll manage fair, equitable, and market-aligned compensation & benefits programs that enable great decisions and a great employee experience. You’ll partner across People, Finance, Legal, and Talent Acquisition to run company-wide compensation and promotion cycles, maintain and evolve salary ranges and governance, deliver variable & equity compensation programmes, support global benefit programs and scale manager enablement so leaders can make confident, consistent decisions. This role would be perfect for someone who has solid experience across all aspects of Total Rewards and is looking to take on more responsibility and ownership of Reward related activity. This role is a 12 month fixed term contract.

As part of this team of amazing humans,

You will

• Manage and mentor a small Total Rewards team to ensure the effective execution of all programs.
• Support team members based in APAC, the US and EMEA with a focus on both global Total Rewards and Benefits.
• Lead the annual compensation and promotion cycle end-to-end (planning, enablement, calibration support, reporting), ensuring consistency and equity across regions.
• Own salary range governance and market benchmarking updates, partnering with TA and People Partners to keep offers and in-range moves aligned to our philosophy and budget.
• Run pay equity and cohort analyses; identify risks/outliers and drive pragmatic remediation recommendations leaders can act on.
• Strengthen rewards governance, policy, and compliance (e.g., bonus eligibility rules, exception processes), with clear, timely communications for leaders and employees.
• Build and deliver manager enablement (guides, FAQs, training) on compensation fundamentals (bands, compa‑ratio, pay mix, equity basics) to raise decision quality at scale.
• Manage the employee equity lifecycle, including ESOP grants, platform administration, data integrity, leaver and transfer processes, governance and employee guidance; support variable-pay design and rollout.
• Partner with Finance to set cycle guardrails and track spend; bring tight controls and auditability to all rewards processes.
• Monitor market and regulatory trends to evolve our total rewards process and stay ahead of external shifts in pay expectations, pay transparency, and compliance.
• Partner with the People Operations team to build strong connections between Reward and People Ops, streamlining processes and improving the way we deliver for our people.

You have

• Previous experience as a strong Total Rewards & Benefits professional with a desire to take on more ownership and step into a leadership role. Experience in compensation/total rewards across salary, variable pay, equity and band architecture in scaling environments.
• Hands-on experience managing reward activity across multiple geographies, aligning policies and processes while meeting local compliance requirements.
• Strong analytical skills (e.g., compa‑ratio, pay mix, outlier detection, simple cohort modeling) and high standards for data quality.
• Proven ownership of annual comp/promo cycles, range updates, and exception processes with clear stakeholder communication.
• Policy and governance skills—able to write pragmatic policies and implement controls that balance speed and rigor.
• Strong cross‑functional partnership with People Partners, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and Legal; credible with senior leaders.
• Excellent written and verbal communication—able to simplify complex topics for non‑experts and enable decisions.
• Experience working across multiple countries or jurisdictions is advantageous; direct US experience is helpful but not essential.

You are

• Values-led, data-driven, and systems-minded, with strong judgment and a bias to action.
• Inclusive and equity‑focused; you design for fairness and transparency.
• Adaptive and continuously improving-using feedback and insights to raise the bar each cycle

Perks & Benefits

At Culture Amp, our people are at the heart of our success. We offer competitive pay and a total rewards package designed to support you at work and in life. This includes:

• Equity through our Employee Share Option Program, so you can share in our long‑term success
• Learning programs and coaching to help you thrive and grow
• Quarterly refresh days, an extended end-of-year break and a monthly allowance to support your wellbeing and lifestyle
• Inclusive parental leave from day one
• A MacBook and budget to set up your home workspace, enabling flexibility
• Five annual social impact days to to give back to causes that matter to you
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)

Our rewards are designed to support different needs and life stages, recognising that what matters most can vary from person to person.

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