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Senior Manager, Total Rewards
Senior Manager, Total RewardsAlma • Salt Lake City, UT, US
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Senior Manager, Total Rewards

Senior Manager, Total Rewards

Alma • Salt Lake City, UT, US
24 days ago
Job type
  • Full-time
Job description

Senior Manager, Total Rewards

The Senior Manager, Total Rewards will play a critical role in designing, analyzing, and implementing Alma's Total Rewards programs to attract, retain, and motivate top talent. This role is deeply analytical, blending expertise in compensation with exposure to benefits, HRIS, and data-driven insights. The ideal candidate is innovative, highly proficient with analytics tools, and excited about leveraging emerging technologies, including AI, to shape the future of Total Rewards.

What You'll Do

  • Compensation Design & Management

Develop, maintain, and evolve compensation structures, pay bands, and incentive programs.

  • Conduct competitive benchmarking using tools like Radford / Pave to ensure market alignment.
  • Partner with HRBPs and business leaders to provide guidance on compensation decisions.
  • Lead compensation program budgeting, accruals, forecasting, and cost modeling
  • Analytics & Reporting
  • Lead deep-dive analytics on utilization, compa-ratios, pay equity, and program effectiveness.

  • Build dashboards and reporting in Excel, Power BI, or other visualization tools.
  • Translate complex data into actionable insights for executive leadership.
  • Partnership with Benefits Teams
  • Work alongside benefits teams to understand how health, wellness, retirement, and other programs complement compensation.

  • Articulate how compensation interacts with broader Total Rewards elements (benefits, recognition, well-being, time-off policies) to deliver a compelling EVP.
  • Brings an integrated view ensuring compensation recommendations are made in the context of the full rewards portfolio.
  • HRIS & Process Automation
  • Support HRIS integrations for compensation, performance, and rewards processes.

  • Identify opportunities to streamline workflows through automation.
  • Innovation & Thought Leadership
  • Bring forward innovative ideas for Total Rewards design.

  • Stay ahead of trends in AI, analytics, and compensation tech able to energetically discuss and apply new tools and methodologies.
  • Propose strategies that balance market competitiveness, equity, and fiscal responsibility.
  • Equity / Stock Programs
  • Experience in administering equity compensation (eg. stock options, RSUs), has experience in plan design and benchmarking

  • Compliance
  • Understanding of pay transparency regulations (e.g., California, New York) and EEO reporting requirements.

  • Cross Functional Collaboration
  • Managing critical work streams while partnering with multiple stakeholders such as finance, legal, talent acquisition and business leaders.

    Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of experience in compensation, with at least 3 years in a senior analyst or program manager role.
  • Proven ability to translate data into business insights.
  • Expert proficiency in Microsoft Excel (modeling, pivot tables, advanced formulas).
  • Familiarity with Power BI or other analytics platforms.
  • Exposure to benefits and well-being programs, with the ability to connect compensation decisions to the broader employee value proposition.
  • HRIS experience for administering compensation programs (ADP, Workday, or similar).
  • Familiarity with market data platforms (e.g., Radford, Mercer, Towers).
  • Experience designing and managing short- and long-term incentive plans, including commissions and equity plans.
  • Experience building trust with leaders through data-driven storytelling, clearly communicating complex strategies and insights to executives and employees.
  • Demonstrated ability to build and manage job architecture and associated pay structures while balancing detail-oriented analysis with big-picture strategy.
  • Brings a high affinity for innovation and AI, experimenting with new approaches at the intersection of HR, compensation, and technology to drive forward-looking solutions.
  • Demonstrates strong cross-functional collaboration skills, working seamlessly with Finance, HRBPs, Talent Acquisition, and business leaders.
  • Project Management Skills : Ability to manage multiple deliverables and deadlines in parallel.
  • Desired Attributes

  • Adaptability : Comfort navigating ambiguity and rapid change in high-growth environments.
  • Skilled at negotiating priorities and balancing business needs with organizational policies and philosophy.
  • Builds trust quickly and acts as a connector across teams to ensure alignment.
  • Skilled at building storyboards and visual frameworks that connect numbers to business outcomes.
  • Comfortable presenting insights in both formal (ELT presentations) and informal (manager coaching) settings.
  • Preferred Requirements

  • Experience managing and administering global compensation programs
  • CCP
  • Track record of building and maturing programs from the ground up (not just maintaining)
  • Experience balancing internal equity vs. external competitiveness in fast-growth or dynamic markets
  • Strong vendor management skills (brokers, survey providers, HRIS consultants)
  • Benefits

  • We're a remote-first company
  • Health insurance plans through Aetna (medical and dental) and MetLife (vision), including FSA and HSA plans
  • 401K plan (ADP)
  • Monthly therapy and wellness stipends
  • Monthly co-working space membership stipend
  • Monthly work-from-home stipend
  • Financial wellness benefits through Northstar
  • Pet discount program through United Pet Care
  • Financial perks and rewards through BenefitHub
  • EAP access through Aetna
  • One-time home office stipend to set up your home office
  • Comprehensive parental leave plans
  • 12 paid holidays and 1 Alma Give Back Day
  • Flexible PTO
  • Salary Band : $144,200 - $205,800

    All Alma jobs are listed on our careers page. We do not use outside applications or automated text messaging in our recruiting process. We will not ask for any sensitive financial or identification information throughout the recruiting process. Any communication during the recruitment process, including interview requests or job offers, will come directly from a recruiting team member with a helloalma.com email address.

    Learn more about how Alma handles applicant data by reading Alma's Applicant Privacy Notice.

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