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Salary: USD 200,000 - 300,000 / annual
Klaviyo is seeking a Head of Global Compensation to lead the design and evolution of their compensation strategy as the company scales. Reporting to the VP of Total Rewards, you will own the full spectrum of compensation work: building global compensation philosophy and job architecture, designing equity and long-term incentive programs, managing multi-year equity models and budgets, and serving as a strategic business partner to people leaders on hiring, retention, and organizational decisions.
Key responsibilities include:
**Compensation Strategy & Architecture**: Lead the evolution of global compensation philosophy, job architecture, leveling, and pay structures. Design fair, market-competitive programs that reinforce Klaviyo's builder culture, reward ownership and impact, and differentiate exceptional performance. Extend compensation frameworks into new markets while balancing global consistency with local market realities. Help shape the broader Total Rewards strategy.
**Equity & Long-Term Rewards**: Own equity compensation strategy including new-hire grants, refresh programs, and retention approaches. Manage multi-year equity models and budgets, considering burn rate, dilution, and future investment needs. Partner with Finance and senior leadership on performance, retention, and financial sustainability tradeoffs. Shape senior leadership compensation strategy and support Compensation Committee governance.
**Strategic Business Partnership**: Serve as a trusted advisor to people leaders on critical hiring decisions, retention challenges, and compensation investments. Navigate complex decisions with sound judgment and creativity. Partner with Talent Acquisition to ensure compensation supports talent attraction. Translate complex concepts into clear, actionable recommendations.
**Team Leadership**: Lead, coach, and develop a high-performing compensation team. Stay close to the work, bringing your own expertise to complex challenges. Establish clear priorities, accountability, and operating rhythms. Rethink how compensation work gets done using technology, automation, and AI.
Success means building a clear, fair, market-competitive global compensation strategy; creating sustainable equity and compensation investment models; establishing a function that leaders trust for strategic guidance; and developing an exceptional team that operates at a new level.
**Requirements:**
- 10+ years of progressive compensation experience, including significant leadership responsibility within a high-growth technology company
- Demonstrated experience designing, transforming, or meaningfully evolving global compensation strategies within a publicly traded company
- Deep expertise in compensation philosophy, job architecture, leveling, market benchmarking, base pay, annual incentives, and equity compensation
- Strong financial and analytical capabilities, including equity modeling, burn rate, dilution, long-term incentive design, and compensation budget planning
- Experience with executive compensation, Compensation Committee support, public-company governance, and regulatory requirements
- Strong understanding of pay equity and evolving pay transparency requirements
- Experience extending compensation frameworks into new markets, balancing global consistency with local market realities
- Proven success leading and developing compensation teams, deepening technical expertise, and creating accountability and continuous improvement culture
- Hands-on experience with compensation systems, market data platforms, and analytics; demonstrated experience using AI and automation to improve work processes
- Builder mindset: challenge assumptions, see improvement opportunities, take ownership of change
- Think like a business leader: understand financial and talent implications, make thoughtful tradeoffs
- Lead from the work: comfortable setting strategy with executives, getting into details with team, personally driving complex challenges
- Develop exceptional people: love coaching, raise the bar, help talented people grow
- Move with urgency: make informed decisions, put ideas into practice, learn quickly, continuously improve
