Head of Total Rewards

Notion Labs, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

San Francisco, California

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Lead the vision and strategy for Total Rewards as a core talent-density lever at Notion, shaping compensation, equity, and benefits programs that drive motivation, retention, and high performance.
• Design and evolve a clear, scalable compensation philosophy aligned with Notion’s strategy, values, and operating model, ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness across all levels.
• Own the compensation architecture including job leveling, pay bands, market pricing strategies, and decision frameworks to enable consistent, nuanced scaling without losing precision.
• Build fast, high-quality systems for making compensation decisions on offers, promotions, internal mobility, retention, and exceptions, reducing delays while maintaining rigor.
• Lead global equity strategy across the employee lifecycle, partnering with Finance and Legal to design, refresh, and communicate equity frameworks that remain competitive and compliant worldwide.
• Establish transparent narratives and guidelines that help leaders and employees understand how equity works at Notion, fostering trust and clarity.
• Own executive compensation programs and serve as the primary liaison to the Board and Compensation Committee, preparing defensible analyses, recommendations, and governance materials.
• Design and ship AI-forward total rewards tooling using Notion and other platforms to automate benchmarking, scenario modeling, insights generation, and manager enablement workflows.
• Identify opportunities to use AI to remove administrative busywork and increase decision velocity while improving data quality and operational efficiency.
• Establish metrics, dashboards, and monitoring systems to track competitiveness, pay equity, spend, and program effectiveness, translating insights into actionable improvements.
• Ensure compensation governance is scalable, compliant, and risk-managed across all geographies, partnering with Legal and Finance on controls and regulatory alignment.
• Lead, grow, and develop a team across compensation, equity, and benefits, setting high standards for craft, ownership, and agency while coaching team members and cross-functional partners.
• Coach leaders and managers on compensation decision-making with clarity, confidence, and empathy, enabling them to make fair, data-informed choices.
• Create communication strategies and enablement materials that make complex compensation and equity concepts accessible, transparent, and easy to understand for all employees.
• Operate with high agency and urgency, taking full ownership of outcomes while maintaining exceptional judgment, craft, and attention to detail.
• Support company scaling by ensuring compensation practices, documentation, and systems evolve to meet increasing demands for governance, global alignment, and operational precision.
• Build a culture of transparency, fairness, and high performance through thoughtful, data-driven total rewards programs that reflect Notion’s AI-forward future.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of experience leading compensation and equity programs in high-growth technology companies, including executive-level scope
• Proven ability to design scalable compensation architectures (job structures, pay bands, market pricing, governance) that support rapid scaling
• Deep experience with executive compensation and direct partnership with senior leadership and Compensation Committees
• Strong analytical skills paired with exceptional judgment to translate complex data into simple, high-quality decisions
• Builder’s mindset: experience creating systems, processes, and tools from scratch and iterating quickly based on feedback
• High agency and ownership: takes initiative, drives momentum, and owns outcomes with urgency

🏖️ Benefits

• Company-defining scope: Total Rewards is a core lever in building a generational company; your work directly shapes who Notion attracts and retains
• High visibility and trust: partner closely with C-suite and Board on the most critical people decisions
• Build for the future: mandate to reimagine compensation in an AI-forward world and build the systems to make it real
• Craft-forward culture: emphasis on thoughtful, high-quality work with room to set the bar and lead by example

Skills & Technologies

Onsite

$315k-360k

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About Notion Labs, Inc.

Notion Labs, Inc. develops a unified workspace platform that combines documents, databases, kanban boards, calendars, and wikis. Headquartered in San Francisco, the company offers collaborative tools for teams and individuals to plan, write, organize, and share knowledge. The software integrates with third-party services and supports real-time editing, templates, and permissions management. Founded in 2013, it serves global users across education, technology, and enterprise sectors, aiming to replace fragmented productivity apps with a single, modular environment.

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