Senior Rewards Partner, Upvest
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Investment API
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Investment API
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
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201-500 employees
Company mission
To make investing as easy as spending money and to enable businesses to build investment experiences their customers love.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of experience in total rewards roles in an international environment, ideally in multiple companies from startups to more established organisations
- Experience in modern compensation management, incentive structuring, and benchmarking
- Deep understanding of designing and managing total rewards programs and benefits offerings beyond perks
- Proven track record in managing VSOP/ESOP, EIP, and hurdle shares
- Experience with relevant software and tools, and scaling systems, programs and processes
- Deep understanding of gap analyses
- Data-driven approach, spreadsheet wizardry, and skills to produce meaningful visual analyses to support decision-making
- Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills, and ability to explain complicated compensation and benefits topics appropriately to different audiences
- Strong sense of ownership and keen attention to detail
- Passion for great people experience and inclusive and equitable rewards
- Hands-on approach, flexibility, and willingness to make life easy for others
Desirable
- Experience in the fintech or other regulated fields
- Knowledge of pension programs internationally
- Familiarity with our systems: HiBob, Linear, Gaia
What the job involves
- We are looking for an experienced rewards expert to join the people team as an individual contributor
- In this role, you will have the opportunity design, implement, and maintain our comprehensive total rewards programs. This includes compensation, benefits, and recognition initiatives that align with our company’s mission and values
- Help shape the total rewards strategy by following Upvest's company and people strategies, rewards philosophy, and organisational goals
- Be the primary point of contact for total rewards, including benchmarking, analysis, salary band updates, international mobility, retention, compensation packages (including equity), and benefits
- Participate in the bi-annual progress cycle and lead the compensation reviews
- Partner on implementing Upvest's virtual shares and employee incentive programs
- Design and implement exciting and competitive rewards offerings for international Upvengers
- Develop and deliver manager, employee, and TA training on reward communication and decision-making
- Work in an outcome-focused manner towards company objectives and People team goals by leading your own projects
- Continuously learn and grow while staying on the pulse of what is happening in the compensation and benefits field
Our take
Upvest is a fintech startup that empowers financial services companies to provide their customers with access to a full range of financial assets, including stocks, ETFs and crypto products. Upvest's investment API integrates seamlessly with its customers existing systems and is designed to scale easily, freeing companies from the need to develop their own brokerage and custody infrastructure from scratch.
As one of the few companies in Germany that is licensed for both the custody of traditional securities and crypto, Upvest is able to provide its services across Europe. Its solution has been readily adopted by some major players in the space including Ginmon, Vivid and ABN AMRO.
Upvest is backed by a number of Europe's largest tech VCs, alongside American investment monolith BlackRock. In 2023, it closed a VC investment round that one of the largest in the German fintech arena. It has gone on to secure further funding which supports ventures such as absorbing the complexity of new local tax wrappers, rolling out AI-supported investment engines, and speeding up the rate at which clients can bring pension products to market .
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Insights
40% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Mar 2026
$90m
LATE VC
Dec 2024
$105.1m
SERIES C
Total funding: $289.4m
Company benefits
- Greenfield projects - We’re building something quite complex. A first in Europe. This means you get to work with cutting-edge technologies, with no legacy code.
- Wellbeing - Everyone here has access to our in-house coach. You can have regular sessions to support you personally and professionally. We also believe it’s important to have time out to rest and recover, which is why we offer 30 days’ holiday.
- Development - In keeping with one of our values, ‘Learn and grow’, every Upvenger has access to a development budget. And in line with one of our other values, ‘Own the outcome’, how you make the most of it is up to you.
- Flexibility - We work in a hybrid set-up, with the team spread around Germany and other parts of Europe. We give you the choice and budget to work where you’re most comfortable and productive, either at home or in the office. You choose.
Company HQ
Kollwitzkiez, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Martin Kassing
(Founder & CEO)They have experience in fintech, private equity and capital markets. Founded another fintech, Shop.co, which was acquired by Klarna.
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