Senior Director, Total Rewards

🕒 April 29

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

🏛️ District of Columbia – Remote

💵 $221k - $238k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

👔 Director

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Great Minds

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 2007

📚 Education

Education

Great Minds is an educational company dedicated to developing high-quality instructional materials for students and teachers. It offers comprehensive curricula in mathematics, English language arts, and science, designed to build deep and enduring knowledge. Great Minds' products, such as the Eureka Math², Wit & Wisdom, and PhD Science, aim to advance equity in classrooms by engaging all learners. The company supports educators with professional learning resources and customizable teaching materials that align with state standards and focus on building essential skills and knowledge. Great Minds is committed to making educational opportunities accessible to every student and provides resources to help educators tailor instruction to meet diverse classroom needs.

📋 Description

• Partner with the Chief People Officer and Great Minds executives to craft and maintain a relevant, comprehensive compensation, benefits, and total rewards philosophy that accelerates Great Minds’ broader business strategy infused with key market insights and current best practices. • Lead and develop a forward-thinking, lean Total Rewards team of benefits and compensation professionals, fostering strong collaboration within the team and building trusted partnerships across the organization. • Evaluate market trends and benchmarks to ensure competitiveness and cost-effectiveness of rewards program through market benchmarking, utilization analysis, and employee feedback. • Lead annual strategic planning for rewards programs and budgets in close partnership with Finance. • Serve as a primary integrator across HR, Payroll, Finance, Legal, and Systems to ensure compensation programs are governed, understood, and reliably executed. • Collaborate with HR Business Partners to navigate competing needs between internal, non-HR stakeholders and the overall business. • Lead people-centric communication and change management efforts related to compensation and benefits policies and programs. • Identify and mitigate compensation‑ and benefits-related operational, financial, and compliance risks, including risks arising from manual processes, system limitations, unclear decision rights, or inconsistent application of policies.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive experience in total rewards, compensation, and benefits with at least 5 years in a leadership role. • Proven success in designing and implementing scalable rewards strategies in a fast-changing environment. • Ability to lead through evolving organizational governance. • Demonstrated experience owning and governing executive compensation, including incentive design, benchmarking, documentation, and cross‑functional decision making. • Deep knowledge of compensation philosophy – pay structures, job architecture, executive compensation, benefits programs, and compliance requirements. • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to interpret data and market trends into actionable strategies. • Strong experience partnering closely with Finance, Payroll, Legal, Systems and HR Business Partners to align compensation strategy with budgeting, payroll execution, and compliance requirements. • Excellent interpersonal communication and stakeholder management skills; service-provider orientation, with ability to influence across all levels of the organization. • Bachelor's degree in related field, graduate degree preferred.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • 401(k) matching • Flexible work hours • Paid time off • Remote work options • Professional development opportunities