Total Rewards Lead

Location: Toronto GTA, Canada; hybrid workplace

Salary: CA$150K–CA$170K annually, plus equity

Company

hirify.global builds data infrastructure for robotics and embodied AI, including global systems for data capture, data labeling, and hardware-enabled workflows used by AI labs and robotics companies.

What you will do

• Own global payroll coordination across employees, contractors, PEOs, and employers of record, including inputs, reconciliations, approvals, filings, and issue resolution.
• Manage benefits administration, enrolment, renewals, broker relationships, coverage evaluation, employee guidance, and budget tracking.
• Administer stock options, shares, RSUs, grants, vesting, exercises, departures, approvals, documentation, valuation, reporting, and tax workflows.
• Build salary bands and market benchmarks, support compensation reviews and offers, assess internal equity, and model compensation costs with Finance.
• Maintain compensation data across Rippling, Deel, Carta, Pave, and connected systems while building reliable workflows, reporting, and documentation.
• Answer employee questions about pay, benefits, and equity and use automation and AI tools to improve accuracy and turnaround times.

Requirements

• Experience owning total rewards or a combination of payroll, benefits, compensation, and equity administration.
• Direct experience with Canadian and US payroll and benefits, plus exposure to international providers or employers of record.
• Practical experience administering equity in a private company, ideally using Carta.
• Strong spreadsheet, reconciliation, and financial modelling skills.
• Experience building processes in a startup or another rapidly changing environment.
• Sound judgment with sensitive information and the ability to identify when specialist advice is needed.
• Clear communication skills, including the ability to explain compensation decisions and equity processes simply.
• Willingness to work through details, resolve issues, and follow through to completion.

Nice to have

• Experience with Rippling, Deel, Pave, or similar platforms.
• Relevant payroll, compensation, or benefits credentials.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time, hybrid role based in the Toronto GTA.
• Opportunity to build scalable total rewards processes as the organization grows its global team.
• Inclusive work environment with equal-opportunity hiring and recruitment accommodations available.
• Equity is included in the compensation package.