Director, Total Rewards

The role

The Director, Total Rewards will lead compensation, equity, and rewards as the company scales. This person will own salary bands, compensation cycles, equity guidelines, and global rewards practices.

What you will do

• Own salary bands by level and function
• Shape comp philosophy including market positioning and pay mix
• Audit pay against bands and fix gaps
• Set guardrails for new hire offers and promotions
• Design and run merit, promotion and market adjustment cycles
• Build budget models, eligibility rules, and manager guidance
• Own equity guidelines including new hire grants and refresh approach
• Align bonus and commission targets to the leveling framework
• Build compensation committee pre-reads and present to the committee
• Build pay and benefits practices for US, UK, Europe and Latin America

Required qualifications

• 10+ years in compensation or Total Rewards
• At least 3 years owning the function or a major part of it
• Built salary bands and a leveling-linked comp structure at a high growth software company under 1,000 people
• Ran merit and promotion cycles end to end
• Prepared and presented compensation materials to a board or compensation committee
• Hands-on with market data such as Pave or Radford
• Strong modeling in Sheets or Excel
• Multi-country experience across the US and Europe, including employer of record markets
• Working fluency with AI tools in modeling and analysis
• Clear writing that explains a pay decision to a CFO and to an individual contributor
• Excellent judgment with confidential information

Nice to have

• Series B to D startup experience
• Equity plan design and international grants
• Sales comp and pay mix design
• Experience with an HRIS migration or consolidation
• EMEA, DACH, and / or Latin America experience
• Familiarity with Pave, Carta, Culture Amp, Justworks or Deel

About the company

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. They are the commercial steward of open source NetBox and Orb.