Vice President, Rewards

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The Vice President, Total Rewards is a member of the People & Culture leadership team and reports to the Chief People Officer. The role leads the Total Rewards function and a team of four, including two direct reports: the Director, Compensation and the Director, Benefits & People Operations.

Sesame Workshop’s people make joyful learning possible globally. The Vice President, Total Rewards makes sure that how we pay, support, and care for those people is worthy of that work — equitable, competitive, market-informed, financially responsible, and clearly connected to our mission, talent strategy, and organizational priorities. The VP leads the continued evolution of our Total Rewards practices and brings a point of view to how they are designed, governed and experienced.

We are looking for someone who is curious about how things work, who looks for new ways of doing them, and who is able to move confidently between strategy, analysis, and execution. The VP is a trusted advisor to the Chief People Officer, senior leadership, and the Board HR & Compensation Committee on complex compensation, benefits, and workforce matters. Sesame Workshop cares deeply about getting things right, and progress here comes from asking good questions, showing your work, and building agreement.

The role calls for deep expertise, sound judgment, a global perspective, and the persistence to turn good thinking into lasting practice.

• Lead Sesame Workshop’s compensation philosophy, strategy, and programs, bringing analytical discipline, clear governance, and transparency to pay decisions so that they are equitable, competitive, well-documented, and explainable to the people they affect.
• Set and uphold the standards, controls, and documentation that govern compensation decisions, and equip managers and People Business Partners to apply and explain them consistently.
• Oversee compensation planning, salary structures, market benchmarking, incentive programs, and organization-wide compensation and pay equity analysis, applying consistent methodology and country-specific market, economic, and regulatory context to global decisions, and translating data into clear recommendations.
• Serve as the senior Total Rewards advisor on executive compensation, overseeing analysis, market positioning, governance, and required reporting and disclosures, and supporting the CPO in developing recommendations for the Board HR & Compensation Committee.
• Partner with Labor Relations on compensation and benefits matters related to collective bargaining agreements, providing analysis and supporting accurate and consistent administration.
• Set the Total Rewards technology strategy and roadmap for Galaxy, establishing standards for data integrity, reporting, and user experience.

• Set the strategy and governance framework for Sesame Workshop's U.S. and global benefits programs, and oversee their ongoing evaluation, balancing employee needs, competitiveness, cost, and organizational priorities.
• Oversee benefits planning, program evaluation, vendor relationships, compliance, and…