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Palmetto is a consumer energy platform helping homeowners discover, purchase, finance, install, monitor, and manage home energy products and services across solar, battery storage, HVAC, heat pumps, and more. The company serves hundreds of thousands of homeowners across 30+ states and is building the operating infrastructure for the consumer energy transition.
The Senior Director, Total Rewards will serve as the company's senior subject matter expert in compensation, executive compensation, equity, and long-term incentives. This leader reports to the Chief Operating Officer and partners closely with executive leadership, People & Culture, Finance, Legal, Accounting, and the Board's Compensation Committee.
Key responsibilities include:
**Compensation & Equity Strategy:** Own Palmetto's compensation philosophy and strategy across base pay, short-term incentives, commission plans, long-term incentives, and equity programs. Lead executive compensation design and disclosure grounded in peer benchmarking and company performance. Partner with Finance, Legal, Accounting, and external advisors to prepare Compensation Committee analyses, models, recommendations, and materials. Drive equity and LTI strategy including award vehicles, grant guidelines, vesting, refreshes, and performance awards while managing dilution, burn rate, and share usage. Lead broad-based compensation and the annual planning cycle, including salary structures, job architecture, pay ranges, and rewards analytics.
**Benefits & People Operations Leadership:** Provide leadership and oversight of Palmetto's Benefits and People Operations teams, establishing clear priorities, accountability, and operating rhythms. Oversee benefits strategy and delivery, including annual renewals and enrollment, vendor and broker relationships, employee communications, compliance, and program effectiveness. Ensure benefits programs remain competitive, cost-effective, scalable, and aligned with Palmetto's broader rewards philosophy. Oversee core People Operations, including employee lifecycle processes, HR systems and data, policies, compliance, and operational delivery. Ensure strong governance, documentation, controls, and data integrity across Compensation, Equity, Benefits, and People Operations. Identify opportunities to simplify and automate processes while strengthening the employee experience and operational effectiveness. Develop and coach team members while building deeper functional capabilities across the organization.
The ideal candidate brings deep, hands-on compensation expertise combined with experience operating in public company environments and is equally comfortable advising executives, developing Compensation Committee materials, modeling equity scenarios, designing compensation programs, and leading a broader team.
**Requirements:**
- 10+ years of progressive compensation experience, with deep hands-on expertise in executive compensation and equity (RSUs, options, performance awards)
- Experience supporting a Board Compensation Committee; public-company or similarly governed experience, including proxy/CD&A and SEC disclosure, is strongly preferred
- Broad-based compensation expertise, including structures, leveling, market pricing, and annual planning, using sources like Radford/Aon, Mercer, or WTW
- Ability to personally build sophisticated models and explain complex topics clearly to organizational leadership and executives
- Experience leading teams and adjacent functions, plus sound judgment and discretion with confidential information
- Bachelor's degree required; advanced degree or CCP preferred
