Director, Total Rewards

At Evolve, we’re on a mission to make vacation rental easy for everyone. Our high-performing, customer-obsessed team runs on curiosity, communication, and accountability—working together to create exceptional experiences for our owners and guests. Whether solving big challenges, delivering outstanding results, or celebrating wins, we approach every day with purpose and passion. If you’re ready to join a mission-driven company where every teammate has the opportunity to thrive, Evolve might just be the place for you.

Why this role 

As a key member of the People Leadership team, the Director, Total Rewards will lead both the strategy and the operations for both compensation and benefits at Evolve. Your focus will be on the Evolver Experience through the lens of short and long term compensation, along with our benefits offering. You will provide strategic direction to support the attraction, retention, and motivation of teammates by ensuring total rewards are aligned with the company’s business and culture goals.

What you’ll do 

• Manage a small team responsible for compensation, benefits and leaves of absence management
• Manage and administer benefits programs, including health, dental, vision, life insurance, disability, 401k and wellness initiatives, analyze plans to provide recommendations and lead annual open enrollment.
• Work with insurance brokers and vendors to evaluate and recommend platforms for benefit program administration.
• Responsible for ensuring accurate compensation structure configuration  and governance within the HRIS.
• Develop & maintain the job architecture framework by conducting job analysis and creating descriptions for roles and establish job classifications based on level, function, complexity to support career paths and development.
• Maintain pay grades salary ranges for all job classifications, ensuring internal equity and external competitiveness through market benchmarking.
• Partner with the PBP team and leaders to apply our compensation principles to evolving business needs, ensuring alignment with our total rewards strategy. 
• Own the compensation aspects of  the performance management process, merit cycle and recognition programs to recognize and incentivize  strong performers and demonstration of our core  values.
• Review ad-hoc pay increase and promotions and provide recommendations to management regarding compensation decisions.
• Support the ongoing plan design and administration of incentive plans (annual bonus plans, commission plans), distribute incentive plan documents, and facilitate the payout processes for the incentive plans in partnership with Finance, Sales Operations and Payroll.
• Monitor and interpret state specific pay transparency laws, working with key stakeholders to develop and maintain policies and processes that ensure compliance.
• Ensures compliance through audits of benefits and compensation practices, including ACA reporting, 401k non-discrimination testing, Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) classification.
• Manage leaves of absence programs seeking opportunities to simplify existing processes, while ensuring compliance with state specific leave laws.
• Use or establish performance metrics to measure the effectiveness of total rewards programs.
• Analyze data to make informed decisions and adjust strategies as needed.
• Create communication strategies and materials to educate employees about the organization's total rewards programs to create transparency and demonstrate the value and impact of offerings to enhance engagement.

What makes you a great fit

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Human Resources, Finance, Business or related field
• Minimum 10  years of relevant job experience, including experience in  roles supporting compensation, benefits, HR operations functions
• 5+ years of experience leading a Total Rewards team in a highly dynamic, fast-moving organization, preferably with experience in private-equity backed organizations 
• Substantial knowledge and expertise in all facets of benefits and compensation
• Hands-on leader who can lead in both a highly strategic, vision forward capacity, but also roll-up their sleeves and execute the work at a tactical level
• Experience creating and managing compensation plans
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Suite – Excel
• Proficiency with Google Suite–Sheets, Slides, Docs
• Preferred HRIS Implementation Experience

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities:

• Comprehensive HR knowledge of Benefit design and administration, compensation practices, HR technology and analytics
• Knowledge of employment legislation and regulations such as FMLA, ADA, ACA, HIPAA, COBRA,