Senior Director, Total Rewards and People Operations

Who We Are

Having surpassed $300M ARR and continuing to grow, Optro is the leading audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform on the market. More than 50% of the Fortune 500, including 7 of the Fortune 10, leverage our award-winning technology to move their businesses forward with greater clarity and agility. And our customers love us: Optro is top-rated on G2.com and Gartner Peer Insights.

At Optro, we inspire each other to innovate and are proud of what we are producing. We spend each day thinking of new ways to help our customers and contribute to the greater good of our company and our surrounding communities. We are all about assisting each other and breaking through barriers to create the most loved audit, risk, ESG, and InfoSec platform by our customers. This is how we have become one of the 500 fastest-growing tech companies in North America for the seventh year in a row, as ranked by Deloitte!

Why This Role is Exciting

As a key member of our people leadership team, you have a unique opportunity to own our global Total Rewards and People Operations, designing the strategic frameworks and operational infrastructure that attract, grow, engage, and empower our employees across the globe.

This role is both hands-on and strategic: you will scale our global compensation and benefits, guide our international expansion, execute executive compensation, and evolve our HR technology roadmap toward an AI-first approach.

Leading a high-performing team, you will build data-backed, scalable programs that meet our employees where they are today while positioning Optro for future growth.

Key Responsibilities

• Global Total Rewards & Operations: Own and scale global benefits, compensation, and people operations to ensure equitable, market-aligned, and data-backed programs across all regions, inclusive of supporting a high-performance culture, ensuring pay for performance, and designing rewards to help attract and retain top talent.

• Data-Driven Insights: Utilize robust market and internal data to interpret compensation and benefits trends, delivering actionable, objective insights to drive balanced business decisions.

• Executive & Board Compensation: Execute executive compensation and equity strategies, partnering closely with the executive team and supporting Board of Directors' needs, including the Compensation Committee.

• Global Expansion: Drive the people and rewards strategy for our global expansion, taking local culture and compliance requirements into consideration to ensure seamless operations in new international markets.

• AI-First HR Technology: Oversee and modernize the HR technology infrastructure and roadmap, leveraging emerging trends to transition our operations to an AI-first model.

• Leader Enablement & Self-Service: Evolve and refine the HR delivery model to enable leader self-service, empowering managers with the operational tools, workflows, and support they need to lead effectively.

• Global Mobility & Compliance: Oversee immigration, compliance, and mobility programs to seamlessly support a distributed and growing global employee base.

• Team Leadership: Lead, mentor, and develop a high-performing Total Rewards and People Operations team, fostering a collaborative work environment.

Attributes for a Successful Candidate

• Minimum of 10 years of Total Rewards and People Operations experience within dynamic scaling companies. You must have experience working in both private equity-backed and public companies.

• Analytical & Objective: Deeply analytical mindset with a track record of building rewards structures that are strictly defensible, fiscally sustainable, and backed by clear data metrics.

• Strategic & Hands-On: Excited about contributing at both hands-on and strategic levels to build programs and processes that scale for exponential growth.

• Trusted Partner: Earns the role of a trusted strategic partner for leaders across the business, including the executive team, by providing reliable, data-backed guidance.

• Collaborative Builder: Builds strong cross-functional relationships (finance, legal, IT) and identifies the best external partners to help scale operations efficiently.

• Forward-Thinking Mindset: Keeps a pulse on new technologies, AI trends, and evolving employee expectations to modernize and future-proof our people systems.

• Execution Focus: Resourceful and operationally focused in a fast-paced environment, with a proven ability to manage multiple complex projects and competing priorities simultaneously.

Compensation

For this role, the target salary range is $230,000 - $260,000

• Offers Bonus + Offers Equity

At Optro, we provide a fair and competitive salary based on a variety of factors, including:

• The scope and responsibilities of the role

• Your relevant skills, experience, and certifications

• Where you are physically located (based on our regional tier system)

Note on Internal Ranges: While the range above reflects our current budget for this hire, Optro maintains broader internal salary grades to allow for future career growth and merit-based increases within the role over time.

Perks (United States)

• Launch a career at one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in North America and EMEA!

• Live your best life (LYBL)! $200/mo for anything that enhances your life

• Comprehensive employee health coverage

• 401(k) with company match

• Competitive compensation & bonus program

• Flexible vacation (exempt) / Accrued vacation (non-exempt)

• Time off for your birthday & volunteering

• Employee resource groups

• Opportunities for team and company-wide get-togethers!

• Parental Leave

*perks may vary based on eligibility/location

Our Company Values

• Customer obsession: It starts and ends here. Consistently ask yourself how what you’re doing creates value for our customers. It’s a mindset.

• Gritty resilience: Make it happen. Find a way. Move fast, stay positive, and do what it takes.

• Drive innovation: Create the future. Continuously improve what exists and invent what’s next.

• Win, together: One team. No silos, no egos. Drive to be the best and support each other’s success.

• Growth mindset: 10x, not 10%. Think in orders of magnitude, not increments. Seek feedback, learn, and improve.
  

Please note that background checks are required. Qualified Applicants with arrest or conviction records will be considered for Employment in accordance with the Los Angeles County Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers and the California Fair Chance Act. This role may have access to highly sensitive data, including employee data, customer data, company financials, and proprietary product information.

We love building strong partnerships, but please note that Optro cannot accept unsolicited resumes from agencies. Any submissions without a signed agreement in place will not create a fee obligation.

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