Senior Total Rewards Partner

Airwallex is the only unified payments and financial platform for global businesses. Powered by a unique combination of proprietary infrastructure and software, we empower over 250,000 businesses worldwide with fully integrated solutions to manage business accounts, payments, spend management, treasury, and embedded finance at a global scale. Founded in Melbourne, we have a team of over 2,300 innovators across 27 offices globally. Valued at US$11 billion and backed by leading investors, Airwallex is building the global payments and financial platform of the future.

About The Team

The People & Talent team at Airwallex attracts and develops top talent to drive the company forward. We are a global, dynamic team focused on creating an inclusive work environment that fosters growth and innovation through strategic initiatives and programs.

Responsibilities

• Design and execute compensation strategy, including salary structure, pay differentials, market positioning, merit and bonus cycles, and offer decisions.
• Own the benefits lifecycle: plan design, annual renewals, broker negotiations, and ACA/ERISA compliance.
• Partner with the global rewards team to manage company stock plans, including RSU, ISO, ESPP mechanics, vesting, taxation, SEC compliance, grant execution, and plan governance.
• Lead Total Rewards projects: design and execute major initiatives across global/the Americas, scope work, align stakeholders, and communicate decisions.
• Partner with the global team on IPO readiness initiatives.
• Use market data and benchmarking to inform decisions; influence stakeholders when decisions misalign with strategy; translate analysis for leadership and employees.
• Partner cross-functionally with TA, People Partners, Payroll, Finance, Legal, and executive leadership on compensation, org decisions, systems, equity budgets, compliance, and strategy.

Requirements

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience in total rewards, compensation, or benefits, including experience supporting populations based in the Americas.
• Experience building or managing a complete rewards program (compensation, benefits, equity, etc).
• Experience managing benefits process end-to-end, including negotiating with brokers and insurance carriers to evaluate and renew plans.
• Strong compensation data analytics capability: own the regular annual market review cycle and influence company pay strategy/decisions.
• Proven ability to build your own models and projections.
• Working knowledge of US stock administration and equity compensation, including RSUs, vesting mechanics, and how to explain them plainly to a non-specialist.
• Experience at a late-stage private or pre-IPO company or transition to public stages, particularly through changes to an equity program.

Preferred Qualifications

• Exposure to multi-region rewards work, especially where the global framework is set outside your own time zone.
• Familiarity with compensation and equity tooling such as Carta, BambooHR, or Workday, and survey sources such as Radford or Compensia.
• Comfort operating with high standards, fast-pace, high pressure, and evolving priorities, with a bias toward building rather than waiting for a playbook.

Pay

Compensation Range: $145,000 - $210,000