Head of Total Rewards
Verda (formerly DataCrunch) is a Helsinki-headquartered full-stack AI cloud provider offering on-demand GPU compute, self-service clusters, serverless containers, storage, and inference infrastructure.
Funding history
About Verda
Founded in Helsinki in 2020, Verda operates European AI cloud infrastructure across physical data centers, hardware, a cloud platform, and AI research. DataCrunch renamed to Verda in November 2025 without changing its service offering.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build and lead the global Total Rewards function from its foundations. You will create scalable compensation frameworks, job architecture, salary bands, benefits programs, governance, and analytics that support international growth.
Requirements
- 8+ years of experience in Total Rewards, Compensation and Benefits, Reward Consulting, or a related field
- Experience designing and implementing compensation frameworks in growing international organizations
- Expertise in compensation benchmarking, salary structures, job architecture, leveling frameworks, equity or option schemes, and benefits strategy
- Analytical skills with compensation data, workforce analytics, and financial models
- Experience partnering with senior leaders and executives
- Understanding of compensation governance, pay equity, and reward best practices
- Experience across multiple countries and compensation markets
- Stakeholder management and influencing skills
Responsibilities
- Define and own the global Total Rewards strategy
- Design compensation frameworks, job levels, salary bands, and governance processes
- Lead compensation benchmarking and market analysis
- Build and evolve global benefits programs
- Support workforce planning, budgeting, and hiring through compensation analytics
- Shape compensation and benefits approaches across multiple countries
- Establish scalable Total Rewards systems, processes, and governance