Rewards Department Lead

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Full Time First/Mid Level Mgr Akron, OH, US

3 days ago Requisition

Sequoia Financial Group is a growing Registered Investment Advisor (RIA), headquartered in Northeast Ohio, offering financial planning and wealth management services.

At Sequoia, we exist with a singular purpose: to enrich lives. Our values define how we behave and guide us through the pursuit of our purpose to enrich lives. At Sequoia, our core values are:

• Integrity. We act in the best interests of others by providing an honest, consistent experience for our clients and team.
• Passion. We pursue our full potential, seeking to continually enhance and evolve our ability to serve our clients and team.
• Teamwork. We subordinate our egos to work together for the benefit of our clients.

Our promise to team members is that you will grow with us. From experienced advisors to new college grads to transitioning principals, every team member will find Sequoia a place to refine their professional mission, move into new opportunities, go deeper, and lead further. We are built to help you build a career here as a long-term contributor in our work to enrich lives for generations.

Sequoia's compensation and benefit programs have reached the point where dedicated, specialized expertise is needed. The Total Rewards Department Lead brings a background in compensation and benefit program design and administration and holds explicit, firm-wide responsibility for compensation- and benefits-related programs — work that today is carried by people alongside their primary roles.

This role gives Sequoia's total rewards function a single accountable owner for plan design, methodology, governance, and analytics, so that pay decisions across the firm are both correct and explainable, and so that partner functions — Finance, M&A, Compliance, the Advisor organization, and business leaders — have a defined counterpart for compensation questions rather than dispersed, ad hoc ownership.

• Own salary range construction, refresh cadence, and off-cycle update triggers
• Own benchmarking methodology and survey source selection
• Own the job leveling framework, and job family and career path architecture
• Own job description governance and FLSA classification

Finance (budget and affordability constraint);
Recruiting and HR Business Partners (leveling applied in hiring and internal job changes).

• Design compensation plans for business units, new role types, and M&A-driven needs
• Lead annual plan review and updates for role or structural change
• Maintain plan documentation of record
• Resolve exceptions within defined thresholds

Business leaders (define the need and behavior to be incented);
Finance (cost input and scenario modeling).

• Set advisor compensation philosophy
• Design new advisor compensation plans and changes to existing plans
• Maintain the documented calculation methodology for every live plan as the document of record
• Own range review cadence and location adjustment policy

The Advisor organization (advisor relationships, education, and strategic direction of advisor economics). Calculation, quality assurance, and payment execution sit outside this role — placement to be determined among Finance, the Advisor organization, and/or a future data and analytics function.

Requires working knowledge of how advisor data is tracked in Salesforce (channel attribution, credit recording, adjustment capture).

• Design equity-based compensation plans
• Own the participant recommendation process — who is put forward, and on what basis
• Lead participant understanding and education
• Lead annual plan review and updates for role or structural change
• Maintain plan documentation of record
• Resolve exceptions within defined thresholds

Finance (valuation, cap table maintenance, plan administration, vesting mechanics, and reporting remain with Finance).

• Maintain visibility into compensation and equity terms before they are finalized, and flag interactions with existing plans and firm-wide philosophy
• Define the compensation elements for incoming shareholders of an acquired firm
• Build and execute the post-close…