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Remote Senior Total Rewards Specialist jobs are open across the U.S. at remote-first firms, distributed teams, and large enterprises managing geographically dispersed workforces, with strong demand in technology, healthcare, and financial services. Employers hiring remotely right now include Fivetran, Mastercard, and Geotek. Find a role that fits below and apply directly.
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From Fivetran's founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We're proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About Us
Fivetran and dbt Labs have come together to build the foundation of the modern data platform, helping thousands of organizations move, transform, and trust their data. As a combined company, we're past $700M in ARR, with more than 2,500 full-time employees across more than two dozen countries, and we're still in growth mode.
We're building a durable, enduring company. A public offering is on our path, but it isn't the finish line. We're looking for leaders who want to build something that lasts well beyond any single milestone.
About the Role
We're looking for a Vice President of Total Rewards & People Operations to lead global compensation, benefits, and people operations for the combined company. This is a senior leadership role for a proven people leader. You'll build and lead a high-performing, diverse team, and you'll design the rewards and operational foundation that supports our next stage of scale.
You'll partner closely with our executive team and serve as a direct liaison to the Compensation Committee and Board of Directors. You'll bring clarity and sound judgment to some of the most important decisions we make about our people. You'll also build a people operations function that scales through great systems and tools rather than headcount. And you'll invest in your team so they use those tools strategically, not just efficiently.
Most of all, you'll help create an employee experience that feels genuinely special and maintains fairness, at global scale.
This is a full-time remote position based out of the US.
What You'll Do
Lead and build an exceptional team
- Lead, develop, and inspire a global team across compensation, benefits, people operations, and HR systems. Set a high bar for performance, growth, and inclusion.
- Build a high-performing organization with clear ownership, strong accountability, and a culture of transparency.
Invest in your team's development so they become highly strategic operators and advisors to the business.
Own global compensation strategy
- Own compensation philosophy, structure, and programs for all employees, including base pay, variable pay, and equity.
- Lead executive compensation strategy and serve as the primary liaison to the Compensation Committee and Board. Prepare materials, advise on program design, and work with external compensation consultants and counsel.
- Design and evolve equity programs appropriate. This includes equity guidelines, refresh strategy, burn rate and dilution management, and future plans.
- Bring pay practices up to public-company standards, including governance, disclosure readiness, and pay equity analysis. Keep compliance current with evolving pay transparency laws across jurisdictions.
Lead global benefits at scale
- Own the global benefits strategy across more than two dozen countries, balancing competitiveness, equity across geographies, cost discipline, and local compliance.
- Manage broker, carrier, and vendor relationships, and bring rigor to renewals, plan design, and program effectiveness.
- Harmonize benefits across the combined organization in a thoughtful, well- communicated way.
Build scalable, tech-forward people operations
- Lead people operations, HRIS, and people systems strategy. Build a highly efficient function that scales through tools, automation, and AI rather than proportional headcount growth.
- Own the global employee lifecycle, from onboarding through offboarding. Make it consistent, compliant, and memorable for employees.
- Drive data integrity and people analytics that help leaders make faster, better decisions.
- Partner with Finance, Legal, and IT on payroll, global employment entities and EOR strategy, and internal controls.
Be a strategic partner to the business
- Advise the executive team on rewards and operational decisions with pragmatism and speed, always tied to business outcomes.
- Translate complex tradeoffs into clear recommendations, and make decisions decisively.
- Communicate with employees transparently and directly about how and why we reward people the way we do.
What You'll Bring
- 10+ years of progressive experience in total rewards or people operations, including significant time leading these functions at the VP level or equivalent.
- A 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.
How You Operate
- Authentic and direct. You say what you mean, build trust through candor, and model transparency for your team and the company.
- Fast and decisive. You move with urgency, make clear calls with imperfect information, and adjust quickly when needed.
- Wise and pragmatic. You bring deep expertise and sound logic, and you know when "great and shipped" beats "perfect and pending."
- People-first leader. You measure your success by the strength of your team and the experience of our employees.
- Builder's mindset. You're energized by growth and focused on building for the long term, not a single milestone.
#LI-REMOTE #LI-SR1
Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and 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 that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
- May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.
We're honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we're proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
To learn more about Fivetran's culture and what it's like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
To learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can read our statement here.
We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.
From Fivetran's founding until now, our mission has remained the same: to make access to data as simple and reliable as electricity. With Fivetran, customer data arrives in their warehouses, canonical and ready to query, with no engineering or maintenance required. We're proud that more organizations continue to leverage our technology every day to become truly data-driven.
About Us
Fivetran and dbt Labs have come together to build the foundation of the modern data platform, helping thousands of organizations move, transform, and trust their data. As a combined company, we're past $700M in ARR, with more than 2,500 full-time employees across more than two dozen countries, and we're still in growth mode.
We're building a durable, enduring company. A public offering is on our path, but it isn't the finish line. We're looking for leaders who want to build something that lasts well beyond any single milestone.
About the Role
We're looking for a Vice President of Total Rewards & People Operations to lead global compensation, benefits, and people operations for the combined company. This is a senior leadership role for a proven people leader. You'll build and lead a high-performing, diverse team, and you'll design the rewards and operational foundation that supports our next stage of scale.
You'll partner closely with our executive team and serve as a direct liaison to the Compensation Committee and Board of Directors. You'll bring clarity and sound judgment to some of the most important decisions we make about our people. You'll also build a people operations function that scales through great systems and tools rather than headcount. And you'll invest in your team so they use those tools strategically, not just efficiently.
Most of all, you'll help create an employee experience that feels genuinely special and maintains fairness, at global scale.
This is a full-time remote position based out of the US.
What You'll Do
Lead and build an exceptional team
- Lead, develop, and inspire a global team across compensation, benefits, people operations, and HR systems. Set a high bar for performance, growth, and inclusion.
- Build a high-performing organization with clear ownership, strong accountability, and a culture of transparency.
Invest in your team's development so they become highly strategic operators and advisors to the business.
Own global compensation strategy
- Own compensation philosophy, structure, and programs for all employees, including base pay, variable pay, and equity.
- Lead executive compensation strategy and serve as the primary liaison to the Compensation Committee and Board. Prepare materials, advise on program design, and work with external compensation consultants and counsel.
- Design and evolve equity programs appropriate. This includes equity guidelines, refresh strategy, burn rate and dilution management, and future plans.
- Bring pay practices up to public-company standards, including governance, disclosure readiness, and pay equity analysis. Keep compliance current with evolving pay transparency laws across jurisdictions.
Lead global benefits at scale
- Own the global benefits strategy across more than two dozen countries, balancing competitiveness, equity across geographies, cost discipline, and local compliance.
- Manage broker, carrier, and vendor relationships, and bring rigor to renewals, plan design, and program effectiveness.
- Harmonize benefits across the combined organization in a thoughtful, well- communicated way.
Build scalable, tech-forward people operations
- Lead people operations, HRIS, and people systems strategy. Build a highly efficient function that scales through tools, automation, and AI rather than proportional headcount growth.
- Own the global employee lifecycle, from onboarding through offboarding. Make it consistent, compliant, and memorable for employees.
- Drive data integrity and people analytics that help leaders make faster, better decisions.
- Partner with Finance, Legal, and IT on payroll, global employment entities and EOR strategy, and internal controls.
Be a strategic partner to the business
- Advise the executive team on rewards and operational decisions with pragmatism and speed, always tied to business outcomes.
- Translate complex tradeoffs into clear recommendations, and make decisions decisively.
- Communicate with employees transparently and directly about how and why we reward people the way we do.
What You'll Bring
- 10+ years of progressive experience in total rewards or people operations, including significant time leading these functions at the VP level or equivalent.
- A 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.
How You Operate
- Authentic and direct. You say what you mean, build trust through candor, and model transparency for your team and the company.
- Fast and decisive. You move with urgency, make clear calls with imperfect information, and adjust quickly when needed.
- Wise and pragmatic. You bring deep expertise and sound logic, and you know when "great and shipped" beats "perfect and pending."
- People-first leader. You measure your success by the strength of your team and the experience of our employees.
- Builder's mindset. You're energized by growth and focused on building for the long term, not a single milestone.
#LI-REMOTE #LI-SR1
Perks and Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical insurance*
- Generous paid time away from work, including paid vacation or flexible/unlimited vacation depending on role and country, plus paid sick time, inclusive parental leave, paid holidays, including a year-end Global Week of Rest, and 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 that offers personalized care and resources in areas such as: therapy, coaching, and self-guided mindfulness exercises for all covered employees and their covered dependents.
- May vary by country and worker type - please reach out to your recruiter for more information
Click here to learn more about Fivetran's Benefits by Region.
We're honored to be valued at over $5.6 billion, but more importantly, we're proud of our core values of Get Stuck In, Do the Right Thing, and One Team, One Dream. Read about us in Forbes.
Fivetran brings together high-quality talent across the globe to make data access as easy and reliable as electricity for our customers. We value and recognize that our customers benefit from having innovative teams made of people from many backgrounds, experiences, and identities. Fivetran promotes diversity, equity, inclusion & belonging through attracting, recruiting, developing, and retaining a diverse workforce, not only because it is the right thing to do, but because it helps us build a world-class company to better serve our customers, our people and our communities.
To learn more about Fivetran's culture and what it's like to be part of the team, click here and enjoy our video.
To learn more about our candidate privacy policy, you can read our statement here.
We are committed to ensuring that all candidates have an equal opportunity to participate in our interview process. If you require accommodations at any stage of the process due to a disability, medical condition, or any other circumstance, please don't hesitate to submit your request by filling out this form. We will work with you to provide reasonable accommodations to facilitate your participation and ensure a fair and accessible interview experience. Your request and any information provided will be kept confidential and will not impact your candidacy. We look forward to hearing from you and accommodating your needs to the best of our ability.
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Accounting & Auditing
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote senior total rewards specialist jobs.
- 5 or more years of experience in compensation, benefits, or total rewards program management
- Proficiency in HRIS platforms and advanced Excel or data analysis tools
- CCP, CBP, or CEBS certification preferred or required
- Experience with compensation survey participation and market pricing methodology
- Bachelor's degree in human resources, business administration, finance, or a related field
- Knowledge of FLSA, ACA, ERISA, and other federal and state compensation and benefits regulations
Tips for Your Remote Senior Total Rewards Specialist Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote senior total rewards specialist openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your experience and apply directly without sorting through location-based listings that don't apply to you.
Show your async communication skills upfront
Remote employers screening senior total rewards specialists pay close attention to how clearly you write. Use your cover letter and application to demonstrate that you can explain complex compensation structures and benefits changes in plain, precise language without a meeting to follow up.
Highlight distributed workforce experience concretely
Remote hiring managers want proof you've supported employees across multiple states or time zones. Call out specific programs you administered remotely, the HRIS or benchmarking platforms you used, and how you handled benefits open enrollment or equity plan communications without in-person access.
Prepare for systems and tools questions in interviews
Remote senior total rewards interviews almost always include questions about the platforms you've used, such as Workday, Radford, or Mercer. Know your systems well enough to describe how you pulled compensation data, built salary structures, or tracked benefits utilization without needing IT support on-site.
Remote Senior Total Rewards Specialist Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote senior total rewards specialist job?
Remote employers hiring senior total rewards specialists prioritize candidates who can manage complex compensation and benefits programs independently, without day-to-day oversight. Strong written communication matters more than in an office setting because you'll be explaining equity plans, benefits changes, and pay structures to employees and leadership asynchronously. Proficiency with HRIS platforms, compensation benchmarking tools, and remote collaboration software gives candidates a clear edge over generalists with similar credentials.
Which companies hire remote senior total rewards specialists?
Companies hiring remote senior total rewards specialists right now include Fivetran, Mastercard, and Geotek, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. Remote-first technology companies, distributed financial services firms, and large healthcare organizations with multi-state workforces are the most consistent sources of these openings.
Can you get a remote senior total rewards specialist job with no experience?
Yes, but remote senior total rewards roles at the specialist level are harder to land without experience because you're expected to operate independently from day one. Remote-first startups and mid-size companies occasionally hire candidates who can demonstrate hands-on work with compensation structures, benefits administration, or HR data analysis through project work, internships, or relevant certifications like CCP or CEBS, which help signal readiness.
Do you need a degree for remote senior total rewards specialist jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers care more about demonstrated expertise in compensation benchmarking, benefits plan design, and data analysis than a specific degree. Candidates who can show results from past total rewards work, hold recognized certifications like the Certified Compensation Professional credential, and communicate clearly in writing often compete effectively against applicants with traditional HR or business degrees.
Which industries hire the most remote senior total rewards specialists?
Remote senior total rewards specialist roles concentrate in Accounting & Auditing, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors rely heavily on distributed teams and need specialists who can design and administer compensation and benefits programs across multiple time zones and states without being physically present.
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