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Lead Total Rewards Partner

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Aiven Deutschland GmbH

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Finland , Helsinki

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Job Description:

As Lead Total Rewards, you play a critical part in shaping Aiven’s global reward strategy. The individual will design forward-looking approaches to compensation and benefits to attract, motivate, and retain our Crabs. This is a senior role with high visibility, requiring strategic thinking and engagement with senior leaders and the executive team, while also demanding detail-oriented work such as compensation analytics, equity run rates, process management, system oversight, and vendor relationship navigation, all to ensure the reward framework is built on trust, transparency, and drives business growth.

Job Responsibility:

  • Advise senior leaders and partner with the executive team on reward decisions, pay structures, and incentive design
  • Partner with local teams to refine and evolve benefits offerings across Europe, ensuring relevance, consistency, and employee impact
  • Oversee and enhance job architecture, ensuring clear career pathways and alignment with pay structures
  • Manage the process, system, and administration of stock options as a long term incentive program
  • Drive all reward-related processes linked to performance and talent cycles, ensuring seamless delivery and strong business alignment
  • Provide senior leadership with robust analysis, benchmarks, and insights to inform decision-making and future strategy
  • Support decision-makers and stakeholders with planned and ad hoc Rewards utilization metrics, KPIs, and analytics

Requirements:

  • 6+ years of experience with Total Rewards, with exposure to international business environments
  • Strong knowledge of European compensation, equity practices and regulatory trends
  • Skilled at engaging and influencing senior leaders, with confidence presenting to executive-level stakeholders
  • Experience leading complex reward cycles, driving process improvements, and embedding change
  • Strong analytical skills, with the ability to translate data into insights and strategic recommendations
  • Strong project management and stakeholder management skills
  • Experience with compensation systems and familiarity with both monetary and non-monetary reward approaches
  • Strategic and tactical mindset
  • Thrives in the fast-paced, dynamic environment of an international company in hyper-growth
What we offer:
  • Participate in Aiven’s equity plan
  • Hybrid work policy
  • Get the equipment you need to set yourself up for success
  • Real employer support (use one of our learning platforms, annual learning budget, and more)
  • Holistic wellbeing support through our global Employee Assistance Program
  • Get paid for contributing to open-source projects outside of work
  • Use up to 5 days per year to volunteer for a good cause of your choice
  • Join one of our team member resource groups
  • Extensive Occupational Health Care, Dental Care, as well as sports, culture, massage, commute and lunch benefits
  • Weekly office breakfast
  • Statutory accident insurance

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Job Posted:
December 16, 2025

Work Type:
Hybrid work
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