VP, Total Rewards – People Operations
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VP leading global compensation, benefits, and people operations for Fivetran, a data integration company. Building scalable people systems and rewards programs for a growing multinational workforce.
Responsibilities:
- Lead, develop, and inspire a global team across compensation, benefits, people operations, and HR systems
- Build a high-performing organization with clear ownership, accountability, transparency, and team development
- Own compensation philosophy, structure, and programs, including base pay, variable pay, and equity
- Lead executive compensation strategy and liaise with the Compensation Committee and Board of Directors
- Prepare compensation materials and advise on program design with external consultants and counsel
- Design and evolve equity programs, including guidelines, refresh strategy, burn rate, dilution management, and future plans
- Bring pay practices to public-company standards, including governance, disclosure readiness, and pay equity analysis
- Maintain compliance with evolving pay transparency laws across jurisdictions
- Own global benefits strategy across more than two dozen countries
- Manage broker, carrier, and vendor relationships, renewals, plan design, and program effectiveness
- Harmonize benefits across the combined organization
- Lead people operations, HRIS, and people systems strategy using tools, automation, and AI
- Own the global employee lifecycle from onboarding through offboarding
- Drive data integrity and people analytics
- Partner with Finance, Legal, and IT on payroll, global employment entities, EOR strategy, and internal controls
- Advise the executive team on rewards and operational decisions
- Translate complex tradeoffs into clear recommendations and communicate rewards decisions transparently to employees
Requirements:
- 10+ years of progressive experience in total rewards or people operations, including significant time leading these functions at the VP level or equivalent
- Track record as an established, mature people leader who has built and scaled high-performing, efficient teams
- Deep experience owning employee and executive compensation, including direct work with a Compensation Committee and Board of Directors
- Experience leading global benefits across many countries in a complex, multinational environment
- Experience overseeing people operations and HR technology, with a strong point of view on building functions that scale through systems
- Strong enterprise experience at a company of our size or larger, ideally in high-growth B2B software or technology
- Authentic and direct operating style
- Fast and decisive approach to decision-making
- Wise and pragmatic judgment
- People-first leadership
- Builder's mindset
Benefits:
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance
- Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country
- Paid sick time
- Inclusive parental leave
- Paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest
- Volunteer days off
- RSU stock grants
- Professional development and training opportunities
- Company virtual happy hours, free food, and fun team-building activities
- Monthly cell phone stipend
- Access to an innovative mental health support platform offering therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for covered employees and dependents



















