At a glance
- Experience
- 10+ years experience
- Workplace
- Onsite
- Location
- Scottsdale, Onsite
About the role
- Nextiva is seeking a Head of Compensation to lead the strategy, design, and execution of our compensation programs.
- In this role, you will shape how we attract, motivate, and retain exceptional talent through competitive, equitable, and scalable compensation practices aligned with our business objectives.
- Reporting to the Chief People Officer, you will serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership and partner closely with Finance, People leaders, and business stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead compensation strategy: Develop and execute competitive, equitable, and scalable compensation programs aligned with business and talent priorities, balancing market competitiveness with cost and financial impact.
- Design compensation programs: Oversee base pay, salary structures, short- and long-term incentives, equity, and annual compensation planning processes.
- Drive executive compensation: Support the Chief People Officer on executive compensation strategy, equity awards, stock options, and incentive plans.
- Own executive and Committee deliverables: Personally conduct analyses, build financial models, prepare executive presentations and Compensation Committee materials, periodically present recommendations to senior leaders, and regularly attend Compensation Committee meetings in support of the Chief People Officer.
- Partner across the business: Collaborate with Finance, Sales Operations, HR Business Partners, HR country leaders, and business leaders to align compensation programs with organizational goals and performance.
- Support sales compensation: Evaluate and enhance sales incentive programs that reinforce business objectives and drive results.
- Leverage market insights: Lead benchmarking and market pricing, including for global locations in partnership with HR country leaders, and use compensation analytics and financial modeling to assess competitiveness, maintain internal equity, and guide decisions.
- Drive operational excellence: Improve compensation processes, tools, reporting, and compliance to increase efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.
- Lead AI-enabled compensation transformation: Champion the adoption of AI and automation across the compensation lifecycle, including market pricing, job leveling, merit and bonus modeling, pay equity analysis, and offer recommendations, to increase speed, accuracy, and insight.
- Lead and develop talent: Manage, coach, and develop one direct report supporting general compensation while fostering accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Human Resources, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
- Approximately 10–12 years of progressive compensation experience in the technology industry, including leadership of compensation strategy, program design, and execution.
- Deep expertise in base pay, incentive compensation, and equity, including executive compensation and short- and long-term incentive programs.
- Experience preparing and periodically presenting Compensation Committee and executive materials, regularly attending Committee meetings in a staff support capacity, and advising senior leadership on compensation matters.
- Strong financial and analytical skills, including advanced Excel, financial modeling, compensation benchmarking, and market data analysis, with exposure to global market pricing.
- Strong business acumen, with a solid understanding of how a technology business operates, including revenue drivers, operating budgets, and P&L impact, and the ability to connect compensation decisions to workforce costs, financial performance, and company strategy.
- Demonstrated experience applying AI, automation, or advanced analytics to compensation processes such as market pricing, compensation planning, pay equity, or forecasting, with the judgment to validate outputs and mitigate bias.
- Working knowledge of pay transparency, pay equity, and emerging regulations governing the use of AI and automated decision-making in employment.
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution (including building your own analyses, models, and presentations), independently lead complex initiatives, and deliver results in a dynamic environment.
- Exceptional communication, executive presentation, and influencing skills, with the ability to translate complex data into clear business recommendations.
Preferred qualifications
- Experience with compensation benchmarking platforms such as Pave, Radford, or similar tools.
- Experience supporting sales compensation programs or sales-driven organizations.
- Experience with private- or public-company equity programs, including stock options and valuation considerations.
- SaaS experience strongly preferred, including building or transforming compensation programs in high-growth environments.
- Hands-on experience implementing AI-enabled compensation or HR technology platforms and building generative AI workflows to streamline analysis, modeling, and communication.
- Familiarity with skills-based job architecture and market pricing for AI, machine learning, and other emerging technical roles.
Benefits
- Multiple health plan options to suit your needs, including medical, dental, vision, and telemedicine coverage
- Life, disability, and supplemental indemnity plans
- Flexible Time Off for salaried employees, PTO for hourly employees, Paid Sick Time, Paid Parental Bonding Leave, and holiday pay
- 401(k) with company match
- Health Savings Accounts with company contributions
- Dependent Care FSA
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and comprehensive wellness initiatives
- Access to ongoing learning and development opportunities and career advancement
Workplace
- This role is expected to work onsite four days per week at Nextiva’s Scottsdale headquarters.
Skills
- Excel
- Pave
- Radford
- Automation
- Financial Modeling
- Compensation Benchmarking
- Market Pricing
