Nexthink
Director, Compensation and HR Systems Transformation
Boston, MA, United States · Director
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 34 days ago
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About the role
- Nexthink 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.
- Dual headquartered in Lausanne, Switzerland and Boston, Massachusetts, Nexthink has 9 offices worldwide.
Responsibilities
- Lead the People & Talent AI adoption roadmap - identify highest-leverage opportunities for a lean HR team and sequence delivery by impact and effort
- Advise HR Business Partners on offer, promotion, and retention decisions - as the most senior compensation authority in the People & Talent function
- Design compensation models for cross-border relocations in support of the company's geographic growth strategy
- Partner with Finance on headcount cost modelling, compensation scenario planning, and people data inputs for financial planning
- Lead and develop the HRIS team, setting direction and building capability to serve as a trusted partner across HR, Finance, and IT
- Partner with the Business Transformation Workday team - you bring HR and compensation expertise; they own technical project delivery; together you make the implementation land
- Own Workday data governance: org hierarchy accuracy, position management discipline, compensation data quality, and the standards that give Finance and payroll confidence in the system
- Build the people analytics foundation: define core metrics, produce the CPO and leadership dashboard, and establish the data infrastructure for future analytics investment
- Drive the first wave of HR automation: onboarding workflows from Workday hire events, AI-assisted policy Q&A, job description generation tied to the job architecture, and compensation cycle automation
- Evaluate and implement AI vendor tools that augment Workday and the broader HR function - conversational assistants, analytics layers, and document intelligence
Compensation
- Run the annual compensation cycle end-to-end - merit and bonus plan design, manager self-service in Workday Advanced Compensation, approval workflows, and compensation statements
- manage market data partners, analyse results against the existing framework, and recommend targeted band adjustments to the CPO as the workforce and market evolve
- Run 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 evolve
- Strong analytical fluency - comfortable modelling compensation scenarios, building geo-differentiated salary band frameworks, and presenting methodology to a CFO or senior leadership team
Benefits
- Run the annual compensation cycle end-to-end - merit and bonus plan design, manager self-service in Workday Advanced Compensation, approval workflows, and compensation statements
- Own pay equity monitoring: run the annual pay equity review against the existing framework, surface findings to the CPO, and manage remediation tracking across all geographies
- Support equity plan administration in partnership with Finance and Legal: grant communication, vesting schedules, and ownership transition impacts
- Manage the ongoing Workday roadmap for HR: release management, future module expansions, and integration health with payroll, Finance, and IT systems
Company info
- 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.
- This is a newly created Director-level role at the intersection of three agendas that matter deeply to
- We are the pioneers and trailblazers of a global IT Market Category (DEX) that is shaping the future of how the world works, giving our customers' IT Teams total digital visibility across their enterprise.
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