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Posted May 20

Head of Total Rewards

at Notion

San Francisco, United StatesRemote
recruiting

Responsibilities

  • - Design programs that drive clarity, motivation, and retention for high performers - while maintaining internal equity and external competitiveness.
  • - Build mechanisms for fast, high-quality comp decisions (offers, promotions, internal mobility, retention, and exceptions).
  • - Prepare materials, analyses, and recommendations that are crisp, defensible, and aligned with company priorities.
  • - Build AI-forward total rewards tooling - Be a builder: design and ship the systems that power total rewards operations—using Notion and other tools to automate workflows, improve data quality, and increase decision velocity.
  • - Build trust through transparent frameworks, thoughtful education, and direct, kind guidance.

Requirements

  • We're building one place where your knowledge, projects, meetings, and AI tools live side by side, so work feels faster, clearer, and less fragmented.
  • You’ll reimagine our total rewards philosophy for a new era: one where Notion is scaling fast, operating in a highly competitive market, and building AI into how work gets done.
  • - Identify where AI can remove busywork (benchmarking, insights, scenario modeling, communications, manager enablement) and build toward a comp operating system that’s fit for an AI world.
  • - Comfort operating globally, with an understanding of how to adapt frameworks across markets while maintaining coherence.
  • - You don’t need to be an AI expert, but you’re curious and willing to adopt AI tools to work smarter and deliver better results. NICE TO HAVES -
  • experience operating in environments with higher governance expectations. -

Experience

  • SKILLS YOU'LL NEED TO BRING - 10+ years of

Benefits

  • ABOUT THE ROLE We’re looking for a Head of Total Rewards to make compensation and
  • You’ll bring the vision and craft to transform how we design, communicate, and operationalize total rewards - so our programs are clear, fair, competitive, and set the foundation for a pay-for-performance culture that motivates our people to go above and beyond.
  • You’ll lead a team across compensation, equity, and benefits, and you’ll be a key partner to the C-Suite, Finance, Recruiting, and our Compensation Committee.
  • Executive compensation is a core part of the scope, as is building the operating system (tooling, data, processes, governance) that lets us move with speed and precision as we grow - while staying thoughtful about risk, compliance, and scale.
  • WHAT YOU'LL ACHIEVE - Set the vision for Total Rewards as a talent-density lever - Define and evolve a clear compensation and equity philosophy that supports our strategy, values, and operating model - and own the outcomes end-to-end.
  • - Reimagine our compensation architecture - Own our job/leveling alignment inputs, pay bands, market pricing strategy, and decision frameworks so we can scale consistently without losing nuance.
  • - Lead equity strategy across the employee lifecycle - Own the equity framework and refresh strategy in partnership with Finance and Legal, ensuring our approach scales globally and remains competitive.
  • - Establish clear narratives and guidelines that help leaders and employees understand how equity works at Notion.
  • - Own executive compensation + Comp Committee - Partner with senior leadership and the Board/Compensation Committee to design and deliver executive compensation programs and governance.
  • - Operate with rigor: data, governance, and global readiness - Establish metrics and dashboards to monitor competitiveness, equity, spend, and program effectiveness; translate insights into action.
  • - Ensure compensation governance is scalable and compliant across geographies; partner with Legal and Finance on risk management and controls.
  • - Support company scaling activities by ensuring our compensation practices, documentation, and governance can meet higher expectations over time.
  • - Lead, grow, and develop the Total Rewards team - Manage and develop a team across compensation, equity and benefits; set clear goals, raise the bar on craft, and build a high-agency culture.
  • - Coach cross-functional partners and leaders on compensation decision-making with clarity and confidence.
  • - Communicate with clarity and conviction - Create communication strategies and enablement that make compensation and equity easier to understand for leaders and employees.
  • experience leading compensation and equity programs in high-growth technology companies, including meaningful scope at senior/executive levels. - Proven ability to design compensation philosophies and architectures (job structures, market pricing, bands/ranges, governance) that scale with the business. - Deep
  • experience with executive compensation and working with senior leadership and Boards/Compensation Committees.
  • Experience building (or significantly modernizing) compensation tooling and workflows using Notion, BI, and/or HR systems—and leveraging AI to improve speed and quality. - Exposure to public-company readiness work or
  • Experience partnering with Finance on modeling, budgeting, and long-range planning for comp and equity programs.
  • - Build for the future: You’ll have the mandate to reimagine how compensation works in an AI-forward world—and build the systems to make it real.
  • Notion is committed to providing highly competitive cash compensation, equity, and benefits.
  • The compensation offered for this role will be based on multiple factors such as location, the role’s scope and complexity, and the candidate’s

Additional details

  • Millions of individuals, small teams, and large companies run their work on Notion.
  • Notinos (our employees) are customer zero in bringing this future of work to life.
  • We care about craft, humanity, and building things that last — not just shipping the next feature, but setting a standard for how modern teams (with humans and agents working together) think and execute.
  • This role will be part of the People Leadership Team and will report to our Chief People Officer.
  • This is not a “run the standard comp playbook” role.
  • We’re looking for a high-agency builder who takes ownership and operates with urgency - someone who can move quickly without sacrificing judgment or craft.
  • We work from our offices on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays (our Anchor Days) because we do our best thinking and building together in person.
  • We’re looking for someone who’s excited to work alongside the team during those days.
  • - Strong analytical capability paired with great judgment—able to move from complex data to simple, high-quality decisions.
  • - A builder’s mindset: comfortable creating systems, processes, and tools from scratch, and iterating quickly based on feedback and outcomes.

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