Director, Global People Operations & Total Rewards

Requirements

• Experience leading global People Operations, Total Rewards, HR systems, and operational infrastructure in a complex, global environment.
• Demonstrated experience modernizing, scaling, or rebuilding HR operational architecture, systems, workflows, and service delivery models.
• Deep compensation expertise required, including experience leading compensation strategy, job architecture, leveling, salary structures, market benchmarking, and annual compensation planning processes.
• Must be capable of operating as the senior compensation subject matter expert for the organization, including providing strategic guidance, analytical modeling, governance, and operational leadership without a dedicated internal compensation team.
• Strong experience leading HR technology strategy, HRIS optimization, systems implementation, workflow automation, operational process redesign, and data governance initiatives.
• Experience driving automation, AI enablement, self-service strategies, or digital transformation initiatives within HR or enterprise operations strongly preferred.
• Strong operational leadership experience across payroll, benefits, compliance, employee lifecycle operations, and global service delivery.
• Demonstrated ability to simplify complexity, reduce operational friction, and build scalable operational models in growing organizations.
• Strong analytical, systems-thinking, and problem-solving capabilities.
• Strong cross-functional leadership and stakeholder management skills across executive, technical, and operational teams.
• Experience operating in high-growth, transformation-oriented, or rapidly scaling environments preferred.
• Strong program management, prioritization, and execution leadership skills.
• Ability to balance strategic transformation work with operational execution and day-to-day delivery accountability.

Additional Information

Sonatype is the software supply chain security company. We provide the world's best end-to-end software supply chain security solution, combining the only proactive protection against malicious open source, the only enterprise grade SBOM management and the leading open source dependency management platform. This empowers enterprises to create and maintain secure, quality, and innovative software at scale. As founders of Nexus Repository and stewards of Maven Central, the world's largest repository of Java open-source software, we are software pioneers and our open source expertise is unmatched. We empower innovation with an unparalleled commitment to build faster, safer software and harness AI and data intelligence to mitigate risk, maximize efficiencies, and drive powerful software development. More than 2,000 organizations, including 70% of the Fortune 100 and 15 million software developers, rely on Sonatype to optimize their software supply chains. The Director of Global People Operations & Total Rewards exists to design, build, and govern the modern operational backbone of Sonatype's human capital infrastructure. This role is a strategic intersection of corporate data systems engineering, international compensation architecture, and scalable service delivery. As an M5 leader, you are responsible for transforming the People Operations function from a transactional support mechanism into an automated, high-fidelity business utility that drives organization-wide talent density and unit efficiency. In this role, you will have absolute ownership over the global tech stack configuration, international total rewards structures, data integrity, and compliance guardrails across our distributed workforce. Operating as the organization's preeminent compensation and systems authority, you will eliminate structural process noise and equip managers with the self-service tooling required to lead high-performance teams. Your success is measured by the scalability of our corporate operating model, the market competitiveness of our compensation architecture, and the removal of operational friction across the global employee lifecycle. Things that we are proud of 2025 AI Compliance Solution of the Year - AI Breakthrough Awards 2025 DEVIES Award to our SBOM Manager new product for its innovation and impact in developer technology 2024 Industry Leader in Forrester-Wave for Software Composition Analysis (2024 Q4 report) 2023 Fast Company Best Places for Innovators 2023 Gartner's Magic Quadrant 2023 Software Report's Top 100 Software Companies 2023 BuiltIn Best Places to Work 2022 Frost & Sullivan Technology Innovation Leader Award 2022 PeerSpot Silver Peer Award in Software Composition Analysis 2022 Tech Ascension Best DevOps Security Solution Award 2022 NVCT Cyber Company of the Year Company Wellness Week - We shut down company operations for a week to enable all employees to pursue personal growth and enjoy a much-needed and deserved rest. Paid Volunteer Time Off (VTO) At Sonatype, we value diversity and inclusivity. We offer perks such as parental leave, diversity and inclusion working groups, and flexible working practices to allow our employees to show up as their whole selves. We are an equal-opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

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