{"id":335278,"url":"https://alion.io/job/culture-amp-total-rewards-manager-12-month-ftc","title":"Total Rewards Manager (12 month FTC)","company":{"id":49849,"name":"Culture Amp","domain":"cultureamp.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/culture-amp","size_band":"501-1000","is_staffing_agency":false,"is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Greenhouse","truth_index":{"grade":"A","score":92,"open_postings":3,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":0.333,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":51,"computed_at":"2026-09-24T05:45:00Z"}},"role":"HR","role_family":"HR","seniority":null,"employment_type":"contractor","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["Sydney, Australia"],"countries":["AU"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":true,"technologies":[{"name":"Asana","optional":false},{"name":"Canva","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-26T05:08:27Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-23","last_verified_at":"2026-09-25T03:06:18Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":29,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":29},"description":"We’re big believers in the power of IRL, so for most roles we ask Campers to work from their local Culture Amp office an average of 2 days a week to unlock connection, pace and culture together.\nJoin us on our mission to make a better world of work. \nCulture Amp is the world’s leading employee experience platform, revolutionizing how 25 million employees across more than 6,000 companies create a better world of work. Culture Amp empowers companies of all sizes and industries to transform employee engagement, drive performance management, and develop high-performing teams. Powered by people science and the most comprehensive employee dataset in the world, the most innovative companies including Canva, On, Asana, Dolby, McDonalds and Nasdaq depend on Culture Amp every day.\nCulture Amp is backed by leading venture capital funds and has offices in the US, UK, Germany and Australia. Culture Amp has been recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and most innovative companies by Fast Company.\nFor more information visit cultureamp.com.\nAs a Total Rewards Manager, you’ll manage fair, equitable, and market-aligned compensation & benefits programs that enable great decisions and a great employee experience. You’ll partner across People, Finance, Legal, and Talent Acquisition to run company-wide compensation and promotion cycles, maintain and evolve salary ranges and governance, deliver variable & equity compensation programmes, support global benefit programs and scale manager enablement so leaders can make confident, consistent decisions. This role would be perfect for someone who has solid experience across all aspects of Total Rewards and is looking to take on more responsibility and ownership of Reward related activity. This role is a 12 month fixed term contract.\nAs part of this team of amazing humans,\nYou will\nManage and mentor a small Total Rewards team to ensure the effective execution of all programs. \nSupport team members based in APAC, the US and EMEA with a focus on both global Total Rewards and Benefits.\nLead the annual compensation and promotion cycle end-to-end (planning, enablement, calibration support, reporting), ensuring consistency and equity across regions.\nOwn salary range governance and market benchmarking updates, partnering with TA and People Partners to keep offers and in-range moves aligned to our philosophy and budget.\nRun pay equity and cohort analyses; identify risks/outliers and drive pragmatic remediation recommendations leaders can act on. \nStrengthen rewards governance, policy, and compliance (e.g., bonus eligibility rules, exception processes), with clear, timely communications for leaders and employees.\nBuild and deliver manager enablement (guides, FAQs, training) on compensation fundamentals (bands, compa-ratio, pay mix, equity basics) to raise decision quality at scale.\nManage the employee equity lifecycle, including ESOP grants, platform administration, data integrity, leaver and transfer processes, governance and employee guidance; support variable-pay design and rollout.\nPartner with Finance to set cycle guardrails and track spend; bring tight controls and auditability to all rewards processes.\nMonitor market and regulatory trends to evolve our total rewards process and stay ahead of external shifts in pay expectations, pay transparency, and compliance. \nPartner with the People Operations team to build strong connections between Reward and People Ops, streamlining processes and improving the way we deliver for our people.\nYou have\nPrevious experience as a strong Total Rewards & Benefits professional with a desire to take on more ownership and step into a leadership role. Experience in compensation/total rewards across salary, variable pay, equity and band architecture in scaling environments.\nHands-on experience managing reward activity across multiple geographies, aligning policies and processes while meeting local compliance requirements.\nStrong analytical skills (e.g., compa-ratio, pay mix, outlier detection, simple cohort modeling) and high standards for data quality.\nProven ownership of annual comp/promo cycles, range updates, and exception processes with clear stakeholder communication.\nPolicy and governance skills-able to write pragmatic policies and implement controls that balance speed and rigor.\nStrong cross-functional partnership with People Partners, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and Legal; credible with senior leaders.\nExcellent written and verbal communication-able to simplify complex topics for non-experts and enable decisions.\nExperience working across multiple countries or jurisdictions is advantageous; direct US experience is helpful but not essential.\nYou are\nValues-led, data-driven, and systems-minded, with strong judgment and a bias to action.\nInclusive and equity-focused; you design for fairness and transparency.\nAdaptive and continuously improving-using feedback and insights to raise the bar each cycle\nPerks & Benefits\nAt Culture Amp, our people are at the heart of our success. We offer competitive pay and a total rewards package designed to support you at work and in life. This includes:\nEquity through our Employee Share Option Program, so you can share in our long-term success\nLearning programs and coaching to help you thrive and grow\nQuarterly refresh days, an extended end-of-year break and a monthly allowance to support your wellbeing and lifestyle\nInclusive parental leave from day one\nA MacBook and budget to set up your home workspace, enabling flexibility\nFive annual social impact days to to give back to causes that matter to you\nMedical insurance coverage for you and your family (Available for US & UK only)\nOur rewards are designed to support different needs and life stages, recognising that what matters most can vary from person to person.\nResearch shows that candidates from underrepresented backgrounds may hesitate to apply if they don’t meet every requirement, but your unique experience matters. If you’re interested in joining us, we strongly encourage you to apply and help us build a more diverse and impactful team. \nAccommodations & Data Privacy\nIf you require reasonable accommodations or adjustments due to a disability to complete the online application or to participate in the interview process, please contact  and identify the type of accommodation or assistance you are requesting. Do not include any medical or health information in this email. The Reasonable Accommodations team will respond to your email promptly.\nCulture Amp will retain your CV & personal information for a period of two years (four years for the US) from the date of your application process completion. Culture Amp may contact you in relation to future job opportunities during this time period. 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