Senior Total Rewards Partner

We started in Melbourne in 2015 to build the infrastructure global commerce runs on. We're the regulated backbone behind global payments: not by accident, but by design. A decade plus, 85+ licenses, and a financial infrastructure spanning North America, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific.

We're co-headquartered in San Francisco and Singapore, with more than 2,300 people across 27 offices. We hire builders with founder-level energy, people who move fast with good judgment, dig in with real curiosity, and make calls from first principles rather than waiting to be told what to do. Read our operating pri...

Total Rewards is central to how Airwallex attracts, motivates and retains talent across the Americas. As the first Total Rewards team member based in the region, you'll build the operating model for Americas rewards while partnering with a small, globally distributed team.

8+ years of experience in total rewards, compensation or benefits, including experience supporting employee populations across the Americas.
Experience owning or building a complete Total Rewards program spanning compensation, benefits and equity.
Experience designing benefits programs and managing plan renewals, including broker and insurance carrier negotiations; hands-on benefits administration isn’t the focus of this role.
Strong compensation analytics capability, including market benchmarking, salary range architecture, geographic pay differentials, compensation cycles, modeling and projections.
Experience making and communicating compensation decisions with senior leaders, People Partners, recruiters and employees.
Working knowledge of US equity compensation and stock plan administration, including RSUs, ISOs, ESPP, vesting mechanics and the ability to explain these concepts plainly to non-specialists.
Experience at a late-stage private, pre-IPO or recently public company, particularly through changes to an equity program or increased governance requirements.
A track record of leading complex Total Rewards projects from design through implementation, bringing stakeholders with you and influencing without formal authority.
Strong business partnering, judgement and communication skills, with the confidence to challenge decisions when they don’t align with strategy, data or compliance requirements.
A builder mindset and the ability to work independently across time zones when there isn’t an established local playbook.
Experience supporting multi-region Total Rewards programs where the global framework is set outside your own time zone.
Familiarity with compensation, equity and HR systems such as Carta, Shareworks, BambooHR or Workday.
Experience using survey and benchmarking sources such as Radford, Compensia, Mercer or Aon.
Experience with 401(k), ERISA, US pay transparency, benefits compliance or related US rewards requirements.
Experience supporting IPO readiness, equity plan governance, tax reporting or SEC-related considerations.
Experience building a Total Rewards function or major program from the ground up in a high-growth technology, fintech or payments company.
You're comfortable owning the roadmap yourself.
You're comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and moving quickly anyway.
You enjoy working closely with people across multiple countries and time zones as part of one connected, global team, including flexing your hours occasionally to make that connection work.
You connect dots across functions and hold the big picture without losing grip on the details.
You come to the table with a point of view, not just a problem.
People and Talent is where the people infrastructure of a genuinely global company gets built. Our company is growing fast across multiple regions, hiring in highly competitive markets, while many of the systems and programs themselves are still being designed. That means the job is not to run established processes well — it is to define what great looks like for a global fintech at this stage of growth, and then build it.
This is a team for the ambitious who want the resources and scope of a scaled business combined with the creative latitude of one still being shaped. If you want to influence how a truly global company hires, grows, and builds a talent dense organization, this is where people work becomes company-building work.
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