Head of Comp & HRIS

Google Chrome Microsoft Edge Apple Safari Mozilla Firefox Head of Comp & HRIS Full-timeDepartment: People & Talent DepartmentDept: People & Talent DepartmentDivision: People & Talent Compensation: USD 151000 - USD 236000 - yearlyCompany DescriptionNexthink is the leader in digital employee experience management software. The company provides IT leaders with unprecedented insight allowing them to see, diagnose and fix issues at scale impacting employees anywhere, with any application or network, before employees notice the issue. As the first solution to allow IT to progress from reactive problem solving to proactive optimization, Nexthink enables its more than 1,300 customers to provide better digital experiences to more than 18 million employees. Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 offices worldwide.Job DescriptionThis is a newly created Director-level role at the intersection of three agendas that matter deeply to Nexthink right now: building a world-class Total Rewards function, driving a significant Workday implementation to a successful landing, and accelerating the use of AI and automation across HR operations. You will report directly to the Chief People Officer and manage the HRIS team, operating as a peer to our HR Business Partnering, Talent Acquisition, and Talent Success leads.This is not a caretaker role. Nexthink has an established compensation framework — your job is to own it, administer it with rigor, and evolve it as our workforce grows across 19 countries. You will be the most senior HR voice on total rewards and people technology, ensuring our compensation programs remain competitive, equitable, and scalable as the business scales. You will partner with a dedicated Workday implementation team in Business Transformation who own project delivery — meaning you bring the HR expertise and compensation design authority, while they deliver the technical build.If you want to own a compensation function that matters, shape how a growing global technology company evolves its people programs, and do it with direct access to the CPO and leadership team — this is the opportunity.  What You Will OwnTotal RewardsOwn and administer Nexthink's established global compensation framework: maintain job architecture, grade profiles, and salary bands across 19 countries, ensuring they remain accurate, competitive, and fit for purpose as the workforce growsRun the annual compensation cycle end-to-end — merit and bonus plan design, manager self-service in Workday Advanced Compensation, approval workflows, and compensation statementsRun the annual compensation benchmarking cycle: manage market data partners, analyse results against the existing framework, and recommend targeted band adjustments to the CPO as the workforce and market evolveOwn pay equity monitoring: run the annual pay equity review against the existing framework, surface findings to the CPO, and manage remediation tracking across all geographiesAdvise HR Business Partners on offer, promotion, and retention decisions — as the most senior compensation authority in the People & Talent functionDesign compensation models for cross-border relocations in support of the company's geographic growth strategySupport equity plan administration in partnership with Finance and Legal: grant communication, vesting schedules, and ownership transition impactsPartner with Finance on headcount cost modelling, compensation scenario planning, and people data inputs for financial planningPeople Systems & HRIS LeadershipLead and develop the HRIS team, setting direction and building capability to serve as a trusted partner across HR, Finance, and ITServe as the HR function's senior authority on Workday: own people requirements for the ongoing Workday implementation, make binding design decisions on compensation module configuration, and sign off on deliverables before go-livePartner with the Business Transformation...