Senior Total Rewards Partner Senior Total Rewards Partner

Location: Based in San Francisco, United States

Company

Airwallex provides a unified payments and financial platform for global businesses, including business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance.

What you will do

• Design and execute compensation strategies covering salary structures, pay differentials, market positioning, merit and bonus cycles, and offer decisions.
• Own the end-to-end benefits lifecycle, including plan design, annual renewals, broker negotiations, and ACA/ERISA compliance.
• Manage company stock plans and equity programs, including RSUs, ISOs, ESPP mechanics, vesting, taxation, SEC compliance, grants, and governance.
• Lead major Total Rewards initiatives across the Americas and globally, aligning stakeholders and communicating decisions.
• Partner on IPO readiness and use market data, benchmarking, models, and projections to guide rewards decisions.
• Collaborate with Talent Acquisition, People Partners, Payroll, Finance, Legal, and executive leadership on compensation, systems, equity budgets, compliance, and organizational strategy.

Requirements

• 8+ years of experience in Total Rewards, compensation, or benefits, including support for populations in the Americas.
• Experience building or managing complete rewards programs spanning compensation, benefits, and equity.
• Experience managing benefits processes end to end, including broker and insurance carrier negotiations and plan renewals.
• Strong compensation data analytics skills, including annual market reviews and pay strategy recommendations.
• Ability to build models and projections and explain US equity compensation, RSUs, and vesting mechanics to non-specialists.
• Experience at a late-stage private or pre-IPO company, or through a transition to public-company equity programs.

Nice to have

• Experience with multi-region rewards programs and global teams operating across time zones.
• Familiarity with Carta, BambooHR, Workday, Radford, or Compensia.
• Comfort working in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment with evolving priorities.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with a global People & Talent team focused on an inclusive, collaborative, and growth-oriented environment.
• Partner with colleagues across a small global Total Rewards team, including teams in Singapore and China.
• Take ownership of high-visibility initiatives while working with cross-functional stakeholders.
• Join a company with more than 2,300 employees across 27 global offices.