Principal Total Rewards Partner, Workato
$177-203.6k
Plus variable and equity
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
Integration & workflow automation platform
Be an early applicant
Integration & workflow automation platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$177-203.6k
Plus variable and equity
Office located in Palo Alto, CA
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To help businesses streamline their operations by providing a platform to automate their work and integrate their stacks, all in one place.
Role
Who you are
- Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university in HR, Business, Economics, Finance or related field required
- A minimum of 12+ years of hands-on compensation related experience required including exposure to global compensation in a start-up and/or SAAS environment
- Expert user of Microsoft Excel including experience building analyses and models
- Experience with Radford surveys on a global scale as well as tech related compensation surveys
- Thorough knowledge of compensation-related laws and regulations
- Deep understanding of equity in a pre-IPO high tech environment
- Experience in a fast paced, high growth SAAS/technology environment preferred
- Experience with Workday HRIS preferred
- Certified Compensation Professional preferred
- Expert organizational and planning skills with superb attention to detail
- Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills
- Advanced strategic alignment and planning skills - ability to connect long-term business goals with shorter-term roadmap and actionable plans
- Advanced consulting, advising, and influencing skills - ability to use expertise to provide guidance without mandating a course of action
- High degree of action and results orientation
- Strong sense of accountability and self-awareness
What the job involves
- We are looking for an exceptional Principal Total Rewards Partner to join our growing team
- In this role, the Principal Total Rewards Partner serves as a key strategic advisor within the People team, with significant influence over the direction and execution of the company’s compensation philosophy
- In this high-impact role, you will shape and evolve compensation strategy to attract and retain top talent while driving equity and transparency across the organization
- Leveraging deep expertise in market analysis and compensation design, you'll deliver data-driven insights that inform executive decision-making and business planning
- This role requires close partnership with HR and business leaders to champion compensation initiatives, influence organizational thinking, and ensure alignment with business objectives and market trends
- Your ability to guide, challenge, and elevate the conversation around pay will be instrumental in influencing the overall roadmap and advancing the company’s Total Rewards strategy
- Lead the design, implementation, and continuous optimization of compensation programs—including base salary, variable incentives, and equity—ensuring alignment with business strategy, market competitiveness, and internal equity
- Conduct job evaluations, compensation benchmarking, and market analysis to inform competitive pay structures that reflect the company’s position as a market leader and employer of choice
- Strategically manage and evolve the company’s job architecture, ensuring roles, titles, and levels reflect organizational structure and career progression pathways across all functions
- Oversee and enhance equity administration processes, including stock option tracking, board consent audits, option burn-rate analysis, and stock pool planning in collaboration with Legal and Finance-to support long-term incentive strategies that align with shareholder and employee value
- Lead the end-to-end quarterly bonus process in partnership with Talent Management ensuring accurate calculations, timely payouts and transparent communication in support of the company’s pay-for-performance culture
- Forge strong, trust-based partnerships with People Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, Finance, and other senior stakeholders to champion Total Rewards strategies that drive business outcomes
- Coach, train and empower People Business Partners to effectively lead compensation conversations with managers by providing strategic guidance, tools and frameworks that reinforce the company’s compensation philosophy and promote consistent, equitable, and market-aligned decision-making
- Act as a strategic advisor and subject matter expert on compensation-related issues, providing consultative support and innovative market-aligned solutions that influence decision-making at all levels of the organization
- Provide thought leadership on company-wide compensation initiatives by contributing to cross-functional projects that require a deep understanding of the broader business strategy, organizational goals, and the intersection of compensation with talent, performance, and financial outcomes
- Design and maintain dynamic yet simple to interpret reports, dashboards and key metrics that deliver actionable insights, while proactively ensuring data accuracy, consistency, and integrity to support informed decision-making
- Synthesize and present advanced compensation analytics and insights to senior leadership, shaping decisions that influence talent strategy, workforce planning, and overall business performance
- Maintain and optimize the HRIS and Compensation Management System to accurately reflect job architecture, pay structures, and compensation programs enabling robust reporting and analytics to support strategic workforce and compensation insights
- Drive automation and process optimization within compensation as well as the intersection of compensation with People team functions including Talent Acquisition, People Business Partners, Talent Management and People Operations to improve efficiency, collaboration, and user experience
- Continuously monitor and analyze market and industry compensation trends, regulatory changes, and emerging practices to ensure the company’s compensation strategies remain competitive, compliant, and aligned with evolving business needs
Our take
Many businesses struggle with lack of team integration. There are a plethora of handy apps available, and various teams within businesses often use different processes, tools, and software. This has led to many businesses attempting to patch together technologies and create ad-hoc solutions that fail when they need to be scaled. Workato allows businesses to integrate data and apps so that teams can collaborate and communicate securely.
Workato has built a single platform that integrates apps, processes, data, and user experiences to improve efficiency, communication, and business flexibility. There are many integration platforms available, such as SnapLogic and Mulesoft Anypoint Platform, however, Workato has aimed its platform at users who have minimal technical experience, rather than the IT team.
Workato has continued to expand its partnerships and workforce, and is well set to see further growth as it innovates its product offerings and capabilities. The company was recognized as a Leader in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Integration Platform as a Service, making five years it has participated and five years it has been recognized.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-7% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Nov 2021
$200m
SERIES E
Jan 2021
$110m
SERIES D
Total funding: $415m
Company benefits
- Flexible Working Arrangements: We maintain a hybrid remote work model and provide everyone with best of breed technology tools that enable them to work anywhere, anytime.
- Great Employee Benefits: Such as an Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), Health Insurance, Referral Bonuses, and Workato Stock Options, tailored to the countries that our employees are based in.
- Professional Development Opportunities: We support individual career ambitions, and set aside training programs and budgets they can tap on to upgrade both soft and hard skills.
- Dedicated Wellness: We make it a point to dedicate time to pause, recharge and get to know each other better.
- Recreation Time: From virtual game nights to fitness sessions, there's always time for a little fun on the calendars.
Company HQ
Old Mountain View, Mountain View, CA
Leadership
Vijay Tella
(CEO)Spent 15 years as an Engineer at Teknekron and TIBCO, before joining Oracle as CSO. They also served as CEO at Qik, and VP at Skype.
Gautham Viswanathan
(CPO)Spent 12 years at TIBCO Software, before leaving their Corporate Development role to found Blink Interactive. Also served as the CEO of iProfile.
Harish Shetty
(Head of Engineering)Previously held leadership roles in engineering at TIBCO, Blink, and iProfile.
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