Head of Total Rewards

Job description

About Volta Volta is the category-defining, fully vertically integrated AI infrastructure platform – from capital to clusters to software, under a founder-led enterprise. Our mission is The Utility of Compute™: AI infrastructure as dependable and available as electricity, for every organization that needs it. Launched with a $10B strategic partnership with one of the leading frontier AI labs, a Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz, and a $5B AI Infrastructure Fund, Volta is building the infrastructure layer of the AI era from the ground up. We are 100+ people across London, Palo Alto, and New York, with rapid growth expectations to hundreds. About The Role The Head of Total Rewards is responsible for developing and delivering Volta's global reward strategy, ensuring our compensation, equity and benefits programs enable us to attract, retain and motivate exceptional talent while maintaining governance, cost discipline and compliance. As we scale internationally, you will establish and evolve the reward frameworks that support our growth, creating competitive pay structures, scalable global benefits and consistent reward practices across multiple countries. This is a hands-on, build-from-the-ground-up role rather than a governance-only position. As Volta's first dedicated reward specialist, you will work closely with the VP of People and partner with Finance, Talent Acquisition and the Executive Team to shape and embed best-in-class reward practices. Building on the foundations already in place — including our job architecture, benchmarking methodology, share option plan and multi-country employment model — you will establish a robust, scalable reward capability that supports rapid international growth and positions Volta as an employer of choice in the AI infrastructure market. What You Will Be Doing Develop and evolve Volta's global compensation philosophy and reward strategy, and design and maintain salary bands, job architecture and market benchmarking frameworks Review all new hire offers, promotions and salary changes to ensure consistency, competitiveness and alignment with internal governance, and support pay equity and executive compensation decisions Act as the reward escalation point for Talent Acquisition and hiring managers on offer construction, competitive positioning, counter-offer scenarios and out-of-range approvals Own the benefits philosoph…