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Sr. Total Rewards Manager

Ashby· People & Talent
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Remote$250k - $280kFull-timePosted 2mo ago

About the role

Experienced Total Rewards leader responsible for building and scaling Ashby’s total rewards function, including compensation, equity, benefits, and perks. Delivers principled, data-driven frameworks, partners with cross-functional leaders, and evolves the function from an individual contributor to a scalable team.

Responsibilities

  • Building Ashby’s compensation infrastructure (bands, leveling, market positioning, review cadences, benchmarking methodology, guidance for offers/promotions/market adjustments) globally in partnership with founders, executives, and functional leaders.
  • Reading the market and helping Ashby adapt quickly by combining market data, internal data, and outside signals; building mechanisms to monitor market movement across the company.
  • Owning Total Rewards strategy end-to-end (compensation, equity, benefits, perks); defining philosophy, principles, and long-term direction; continuous evaluation and optimization.
  • Leading benefits strategy and administration (global benefits end-to-end: strategy, design, renewals, vendor management, employee experience).
  • Leading equity program infrastructure (structure, consistency, scalability; support program administration).
  • Building scalable systems and operations (improve systems/workflows/documentation; use tools like CandorIQ, Pave, OpenComp; leverage automation/AI).
  • Acting as a trusted cross-functional partner and subject matter expert for Total Rewards; helping leaders navigate rewards decisions with clarity.
  • Preparing the function to scale (hands-on now, with future scale in mind; establish documentation, operating rhythms, standards, decision frameworks).

Qualifications

  • Several years of progressive Total Rewards experience in high-growth, VC-backed SaaS companies with ownership of compensation, benefits, and equity programs.
  • Analytical mindset; ability to build and stress-test models; prefer driving analysis.
  • Structured thinker capable of breaking down complex questions, forming hypotheses, and communicating reasoning clearly.
  • Creative problem solver in compensation; ability to design approaches from first principles when benchmarks are thin.
  • Experience building globally distributed compensation frameworks and benefits programs; comfortable with flexible, equitable solutions across functions.
  • Ability to partner with leaders with different needs while preserving trust, consistency, and decision quality.
  • Strong strategy and execution skills; comfortable being the primary owner of day-to-day work.
  • Exceptional communicator who can defend recommendations to founders and executives.
  • Detail-oriented and operationally strong; proactive in improving systems, processes, and program quality.
  • Experience leading or managing others, or desire to build and scale a Total Rewards team.

Skills

Required:Total Rewards strategy and governanceCompensation design and benchmarkingEquity program infrastructureBenefits strategyData analysis and modeling

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and equity.
  • 10-year exercise window for stock options.
  • Unlimited PTO with four weeks recommended per year.
  • Twelve weeks of fully paid family leave in the US (expansion plans for other countries).
  • Generous equipment, software, and office furniture budget.
  • $100/month education budget with manager approval for higher-cost items.
  • Top-notch health insurance for employee and dependents in the US (premiums covered).
Last updated Sep 16, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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About Ashby

All-in-one recruiting platform that empowers hiring excellence in…

At Ashby, we're improving the productivity of working professionals with intelligent and powerful software. We put a lot of effort into designing products that are approachable to beginners but mastered & extended by power users. In many ways, spreadsheets set the bar here. Our first products provide talent teams with clever automation, powerful analytics tools, and customizable workflows packaged in great UX. We have many paying customers who love us and use us every day like Opendoor, Airtable, Duolingo, and Notion. Notion's Head of Talent said Ashby is "probably the tool we are in the most and rely on the most, as a recruiting team." Our culture is motivated by Abhik's (my co-founder and Head of Engineering) and my belief that a small talented team, given the right environment, can build a great product and service fast (and work regular hours!). We hire exceptional, kind, thoughtful people and provide an environment where we can be happy, feel challenged, and do our best work. We are well funded and backed by great investors, including Y Combinator, Elad Gil, and Lachy Groom. We'll share more once we meet!

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