VP, Total Rewards
About Us
Riskified empowers merchants and shoppers to realize the full potential of eCommerce by making it safe, accessible, and frictionless. Our global team helps the world’s most-innovative eCommerce merchants eliminate risk and uncertainty from their business. Merchants integrate Riskified’s machine learning platform to create trusted customer relationships, driving higher sales while reducing costs. Riskified has reviewed hundreds of millions of transactions and approved billions of dollars of revenue for global brands and fast-growing businesses across industries, including Wayfair, Wish, Peloton, Gucci, and many more. As of July 29th, 2021, Riskified has begun trading on NYSE under the ticker RSKD.
About the Role
The Vice President of Total Rewards will lead and assume overall accountability for strategy development, design, implementation, administration, and governance of all compensation programs and benefit programs. This role will ensure all programs align with business objectives, are effective in attracting, rewarding, and retaining key talent, and are fully compliant with local legal and regulatory requirements. This is a collaborative role that will work cross-functionally with business leadership, Human Resources, Finance, and Legal to understand business issues and collectively develop effective business solutions. As a member of the HR senior leadership team, this role will translate the global HR strategy into a comprehensive global total rewards strategy.
What You'll Be Doing
- Build and maintain a global rewards strategy that is fully aligned with the strategic plan, motivates performance, is fiscally responsible, and supports the attraction and retention of high performing talent.
- Design and implement core Total Rewards processes including Executive, Broad Based, and Incentive Compensation; as well as Retirement, and Health and Welfare Benefits programs.
- Oversee the design and administration of stock compensation plans with a focus on retention and meaningful rewards, balanced with fiduciary responsibility.
- Monitor the effectiveness of existing compensation and benefits policies, guidelines and procedures, recommending plan revisions, as well as new plans, in support of the strategic plan.
- Ensure the capability to monitor local market trend information to ensure compensation and benefits programs are competitive and responsive to both enterprise and local business unit needs.
- Develop a comprehensive total rewards communication and education strategy. Drafts related written communications and spearheads annual benefit programs open enrollment process and the annual total compensation review including compensation planning.
- Oversee compensation and benefits-related vendor relationships, negotiating services and managing costs.
- Ensure strong governance and compliance of all Compensation and Benefit programs, including governance of business group specific variable pay programs.
- Oversee the global mobility function that governs relocation for current employees and new hires. Provide guidelines on global mobility and relocation programs; effectively communicate these programs and provide appropriate governance.
- Lead the Employee experience team to curate memorable moments within the employee lifecycle including happy hours, gifts and team events.
- Build, lead, and mentor a high performing team of compensation and benefits professional.
Qualifications
- BA/BS in related field; an MBA is preferred.
- Minimum of 7+ years of experience in compensation and benefits with a focus on innovative, fast-growing workforce; preferably gained while working for a global organization.
- Experience overseeing executive compensation including regular engagement with the Compensation Committee of publicly traded companies including overall competitive compensation positioning, short and long-term incentive design, equity management, SEC regulations, executive agreement design, and compliance. Demonstrated ability to prepare and present materials in a clear and concise manner.
- Experience implementing change in a dynamic environment.
- Excellent leadership with a track record of developing and maintaining high performing teams.
- Strong presentation and executive engagement skills.
- Demonstrated ability to lead and influence across multiple levels of the organization on key compensation, benefits and wellness topics.
- Broad knowledge and experience in a variety of compensation philosophies and practices such as sales incentives, executive compensation, market measurement, etc.
- Financial acumen; ability to understand the short- and long-term financial impact of compensation practices, and ability to prepare or supervise the preparation of relevant financial data.
- Innovative and creative problem-solving an absolute essential, including ability to change directions quickly based on new or changing information.
Life at Riskified
We are a fast-growing and dynamic tech company with 650+ team members globally. We value collaboration and innovative thinking. We’re looking for bright, driven, and passionate people to grow with us.
COVID-19 Update:
- Our NYC team is currently working remotely. If anyone prefers to work in our office, we’re happy to offer an option to do so safely.
- When the situation improves, we’re looking forward to adapting a hybrid of remote and in-office work for all our team members.
- We’re growing at a rapid rate and have transitioned all our interviews to Zoom.
Some of our NYC Benefits & Perks:
- Fully-covered medical, dental, and vision insurance from your first day
- Equity for all employees, 401(k) + matching, commuter benefits
- Catered lunch, fully-stocked kitchen, team events, happy hours, birthday celebrations
- Yoga, pilates, soccer league, wellness classes
- Wide-ranging opportunities to volunteer and make an impact in local communities
- Commitment to your professional development with global onboarding, sales bootcamp, skills-based courses, full access to Udemy, lunch & learns
- Awesome Riskified gifts and swag!
In The News
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Announcing Riskified's $165M Funding Round
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Riskified is deeply committed to the principle of equal opportunity for all individuals. We do not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.