Senior Director, Total Rewards

What you’ll do

• Own Ironclad’s Total Rewards strategy across compensation, equity, benefits, recognition, and related policies and programs.
• Lead the design, refinement, and administration of broad-based and leadership compensation programs, including base pay, bonus, equity, promotion-related pay changes, market adjustments, and recognition programs.
• Evolve Ironclad’s compensation philosophy, job architecture, benchmarking approach, and pay practices to support growth, talent density, internal equity, and market competitiveness.
• Partner closely with the CPO, Finance, Legal, and executive leaders on annual planning, compensation cycles, headcount planning, and Compensation Committee materials.
• Own benefits strategy and administration, ensuring our programs are competitive, compliant, financially sound, and aligned to employee needs across key markets.
• Stabilize and own the transition of key compensation and benefits cycles — including company bonus, equity programs, and benefits — ensuring programs run cleanly while building the operational foundation beneath them.
• Build the operating rigor the function needs: clear documentation, manager tools, exception governance, and reporting frameworks that create consistency and reduce noise across comp and benefits decisions.
• Translate Total Rewards programs into accessible, confident guidance for managers and employees — enabling better decisions at the point of need and fewer escalations.
• Use data and external market intelligence to inform recommendations, quantify tradeoffs, and improve decision quality across Total Rewards investments.
• Strengthen reporting and operating rigor across the function, including program effectiveness, compliance, vendor management, and process health.
• Partner with People Operations, Talent Acquisition, PBPs, and Internal Comms to ensure Total Rewards programs are delivered cleanly and understood well across the company.
• Build and lead a high-performing Total Rewards team, with clear ownership, strong operating cadence, and a high bar for execution.

What we’re looking for

• 12+ years of progressive Total Rewards experience, including deep expertise in both compensation and benefits.
• Significant experience leading Total Rewards in a high-growth, technology-driven environment, with scope that includes broad-based programs and senior leadership support.
• Strong compensation depth across philosophy, market benchmarking, pay structures, incentive design, equity, promotions, and executive compensation support.
• Strong benefits depth, including vendor strategy, renewals, compliance oversight, plan design, and employee-facing program rollout.
• Experience as a senior cross-functional partner with executive teams, Finance, and Legal on Board and Compensation Committee materials and decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to design programs that balance market competitiveness, internal equity, performance differentiation, and fiscal discipline.
• Track record of building scalable processes, governance, and systems rather than relying on one-off exceptions or manual workarounds.
• Excellent judgment, discretion, and comfort handling sensitive employee and executive matters.
• Strong analytical fluency with the ability to turn complex data into practical recommendations and clear narratives.
• Exceptional communication and change management skills; able to bring rigor without losing empathy.
• A builder’s mindset, strong ownership, and a bias toward clarity, simplicity, and durable operating leverage.
• Someone who embodies Ironclad’s values: Drive, Intent, Integrity, and Empathy.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience with private-company equity programs and transitions in equity strategy.
• Experience supporting global growth, including international benefits and compensation considerations.
• Experience modernizing Total Rewards infrastructure, workflows, and reporting with automation and AI-enabled tools.