VP, Total Rewards & People Operations

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 6,500 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.

How you can help make a better world of work

At Culture Amp, we help millions of people across the world do their best work, and we’re looking for someone to help us stay at the forefront of all things people and culture.

We’re looking for a strategic, hands-on, and deeply experienced VP of Total Rewards & People Operations to lead our global charge across Total Rewards, People Operations, and People Analytics. You’ll bring these disciplines together into one high-impact, globally distributed team, with the right mix of strategy, systems thinking, and a passion for building scalable, efficient, human-centred programs.

This is a unique opportunity to shape the foundations of our employee experience and operational excellence, making a meaningful difference in how we support, reward, and continuously improve the experience of our Campers (that’s what we call our employees).

What You’ll Be Doing

As a key member of the People leadership team, you’ll:

• Lead a global team across Total Rewards, People Operations, and People Analytics, uniting three pillars into a single, high-performing function.
• Own the strategy, design, and execution of all total rewards programs, including compensation, benefits, wellness, equity, and recognition, tailored to the needs of Campers in Australia, the US, and EMEA.
• Guide the strategic direction of executive compensation and equity, and lead the engagement of the People & Culture committee (sometimes known as the Compensation or Remuneration committee).
• Continuously improve global employee lifecycle processes, from onboarding and mobility to leaves, offboarding, compliance, and HR technology and workforce management systems.
• Drive our HR technology strategy and roadmap, ensuring systems are scalable, data is accurate, and insights are actionable.
• Ensure global compliance across employment law, benefits, safety, travel, and more, while finding ways to keep the Camper experience simple, inclusive, and human.
• Drive people analytics as a key strategic enabler of decision intelligence across the company by aggregating and analysing all people data, and integrating relevant business metrics to enhance the value, relevance, and impact of people insights.
• Collaborate with Finance, Tech, and Legal to help us scale thoughtfully and responsibly.

You Should Apply If You:

• Have deep leadership experience in Total Rewards and/or People Operations at the VP or senior director level, ideally in a global and scaling environment
• Have experience owning and managing employee share option schemes, ideally for a pre-IPO organisation
• Bring strong executive presence and stakeholder management skills—you’re comfortable advising C-level execs, Boards and compensation committees
• Are an operator and builder at heart who thrives in ambiguity and loves creating systems that drive efficiency and scale.
• Understand the complexity of operating across multiple regions and legal frameworks, and can simplify that for others.
• Balance strategic thinking with the ability to roll up your sleeves, especially when it comes to the detail of compensation, data, compliance, or systems.
• Have a passion for making work better for people, and are aligned with Culture Amp’s mission to build a better world of work.

Sound like you? Let’s talk.

Note from the hiring manager: Not sure if you have all of these qualifications, but have skills you think would be an asset in this role? Please get in touch. We know that many folks – especially those from underrepresented or marginalised groups – often count themselves out. Give us the opportunity to learn more about you and why you’re awesome!

We believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our success. We're committed to fostering a work environment that truly cares for and develops its people, and creates lasting positive impact. In addition to providing a competitive compensation package, some of the key benefits we offer are: 

• Employee Share Options Program: We empower you to be an owner in Culture Amp and share in our success
• Programs, coaching, and budgets to help you thrive personally and professionally
• Access to external providers for mental wellbeing and coaching support to sustain the wellbeing, safety and development of our people
• Monthly Camper Life Allowance: An automatic allowance paid out each month with your pay - you can spend it however you like to help improve your experience and life outside work
• Team budgets dedicated to team building activities and connection
• Intentional quarterly wellbeing pauses: A quarterly company-wide shutdown day in each region to to collectively pause, reset and focus on restoration and rest, without having to tap into individual vacation time
• Extended year-end breaks: An extended refresh period at the end of year
• Excellent parental leave and in work support program available from day 1 of joining Culture Amp
• 5 Social Impact Days a year to make a positive impact on the community outside of work
• MacBooks for you to do your best & a work from home office budget to spend on setting up your home office
• Medical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only) 

Additionally, we don't just focus on our internal community; we believe in creating a better world of work for all. We're committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion, with Employee Resource Groups and ally communities in place. 

We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavor to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can take to support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

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Research shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds often don't apply for roles if they don't meet all the criteria – unlike majority candidates meeting significantly fewer requirements.

We strongly encourage you to apply if you’re interested: we'd love to know how you can amplify our team with your unique experience!

Thank you for taking the time to read this advert. If you decide to apply, as part of your application, we will ask you to complete voluntary diversity questions (excluding Germany). Please watch this video from our amazing DEI Leader, Aubrey Blanche to share more on why we collect the data and how we will use it. 

 

 

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