We are looking for an ambitious leader to join our Talent, Performance & Reward team. This team transforms complex data into compelling narratives on pay and people. As the Lead, you will operate our core reward heartbeat activities and oversee critical processes that ensure we attract and motivate the world’s best talent.
What you'll do
Your primary focus is to delight our clients (the business) through delivery of Reward processes and programs. You will have the freedom to rethink how we deliver these processes in partnership with the Reward and Recognition Operations lead, as well as leading a global team of three Reward & Recognition partners and collaborating closely with the Heads of Reward in North America and EMEA.
Key responsibilities:
- Client focus: Develop and oversee our strategy for supporting our business leaders in delivering Reward initiatives & programmes
- Team Leadership: Mentor and manage a team of three Partners, ensuring alignment with strategic goals.
- Strategic Frameworks: Develop and oversee compensation and recognition frameworks for the full Google DeepMind organizational structure.
- Advisory: Influence and support senior leaders with sound, data-backed advice on unique reward challenges.
- Optimization: Continuously evaluate the efficiency of compensation programs, innovating to improve the return on our total rewards investment.
- Strategy: Embody a compensation strategy that ensures competitiveness, particularly in high-demand segments like the AI talent market.
What you need
- 7+ years of experience in compensation.
- People Management: You have demonstrated experience managing a Reward team, preferably within a global and/or tech environment.
- Operational Excellence: You have a history of holding end-to-end responsibility for complex Reward programs and driving them to successful outcomes.
- Data & Ambiguity: You can assimilate ambiguous information from varied sources to provide meaningful insights using Google sheets (or equivalent), SQL or other database tools and AI enabled tools.
- Communication: You possess excellent communication skills and the ability to build trust and influence senior leaders.
- AI First: You have strong AI fluency and take an AI First approach to your core work.
- Fast paced environment – You enjoy the energy of a fast-paced team and can manage multiple workstreams without compromising attention to detail.
