# Senior Global Total Rewards Operations & Project Manager

**Company**: Adobe
**Location**: San Jose
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $139,000 - $261,150 annually
**Category**: Human Resources
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We're looking for a strategic and execution-focused Senior Global Total Rewards Operations & Project Manager to partner with the Total Rewards function! This role bridges planning and implementation, ensuring strong alignment, prioritization, and delivery of key initiatives.

The role also leads a high-performing operations/PMO team, balancing day-to-day execution with enterprise-wide, must-win initiatives. Success requires strong cross-functional collaboration, operational rigor, and the ability to translate strategy into clear plans and measurable results.

**Key Responsibilities**

- Lead strategic operations and planning for the compensation and benefits area

- Coordinate development and management of the Operations and PMO group, ensuring strong operational excellence prioritization, and execution rigor

- Drive execution of must-win initiatives, large-scale programs, and annual cycles (e.g., compensation planning, benefits cycles, compliance initiatives)

- Ensure team delivers on seamless day-to-day operations, finding opportunities to streamline, scale, and improve processes

- Expertise in deciphering operational issues or inefficiencies, with a focus on finding effective ways to ensure accurate resolution of problems

- Experience scaling operations across the world, understanding where to demonstrate automation and having an “AI first” approach to improve productivity across the broader Total Rewards team

- Drive strategic oversight of vendor partnerships, aligning service delivery and operational processes with business objectives while ensuring consistent, high-quality outcomes

- Implement governance, reporting, and tracking mechanisms to measure success and drive accountability

- Partner across Total Rewards Leaders, EX and business teams to ensure Total Rewards programs are effectively delivered and aligned to company goals

**Qualifications**

- 7-10 years of experience in Total Rewards, including knowledge of Compensation, Benefits, Global Mobility, HR Operations, Program Management, or related fields

- Strong track record of leading cross-functional initiatives and complex programs at scale

- Experience managing and developing high-performing teams, including PMO and/or operations functions

- Demonstrated ability to connect strategy to execution, with strong planning and operational rigor

- Exceptional partner management and communication skills, with experience working at the executive level

- Experience with HR technology and systems (e.g., HRIS, compensation platforms, and benefit enrollment systems; a plus for experience with Workday, Darwin, Benifex, and bswift)

- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills

**Key Competencies**

- Critical thinking with a strong execution attitude

- Ability to navigate ambiguity and drive clarity

- Operational excellence and attention to detail

- Influencing without authority

- Collaboration and cross-functional leadership

- Continuous improvement and innovation

## Skills

### Required
- Total Rewards
- Compensation
- Benefits
- HR Operations
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Operational Excellence
- Vendor Partnerships
- Governance
- Reporting
- Tracking

### Nice to have
- Workday
- Darwin
- Benifex
- bswift
- HRIS
- compensation platforms
- benefit enrollment systems

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