Reward Director

I am working with a High growth PE backed tech business based in London who are looking to recruit their first Director of as their HR team and business evolves.

You will set up and run the Compensation & Benefits function, shaping a modern, high–impact reward function that supports the business growth.

Key Responsibilities:

• Establish and lead a new Compensation & Benefits business building reward frameworks, compliance and operating foundations needed to support the next phase of growth.
• Shape and integrate a scalable compensation and benefits strategy following a period of significant M&A activity
• Create the strategic reward foundations that enable future growth, including job architecture, pay structures, governance standards, and a clear total rewards philosophy.
• Lead the implementation of strategic reward agendas, including EU Pay Transparency requirements, ensuring a fair, modern, and compliant reward approach across multiple jurisdictions.
• Act as the strategic reward partner to all leadership teams, advising on competitiveness, pay equity, affordability, and the reward implications of business transformation.

• Lead the global annual compensation review cycles, including merit, market adjustment, bonus, and promotion planning.
• Work with the Talent & Growth team to apply job architecture frameworks, conduct market benchmarking, and maintain salary banding supported by data and insights, with support from the wider HR team where required.
• Improve and manage reward governance policies and compensation compliance practices, including gender pay, market reporting, transparency, and disclosure requirements.

• Lead the evaluation, design, and governance of global employee benefit programs, including pensions, insurance, and wellbeing offerings.
• Partner with HR Business Partners to ensure benefit offerings are competitive, unified, costed and compliant in all countries
• Create actionable compensation and benefits insights for senior stakeholders through the use of MI, internal reward data, and external benchmarking, supporting informed and commercial decision–making.
• Provide analytical MI for key strategic priorities, including pay transparency, pay equity, job architecture, and reward governance, ensuring data integrity and clear insight to support policy and decision–making.
• Lead compensation–related input into HRIS, workforce planning, and organisational design initiatives.
• Develop dashboards, reporting, and insight packs that enable leaders to monitor reward performance, assess competitiveness, and make evidence–based decisions at scale

Person Specification

• Proven senior level experience in Compensation & Benefits or related reward roles, ideally within matrixed, international Software or SaaS organisations.
• Knowledge of EMEA & APAC compensation practices, benefits design, and relevant employment legislation across multiple jurisdictions.
• Experience operating within a Centre of Excellence model
• Strong analytical capability an ability to use data and insight to inform decision–making.
• Demonstrated experience in job architecture, market benchmarking, salary banding, and annual reward cycle management.
• Experience working in a fast–paced, high–growth environment, with familiarity in HRIS platforms and reward analytics tools.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to engage and influence stakeholders across functions, geographies, and cultures.