Senior Director, Reward, Performance and Analytics

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Company Description We’re Checkout.com . You might not know our name, but companies like eBay, Spotify, Klarna, Uber, and Sony do, because we’re behind many of the digital experiences you use every day. We are where the world checks out, enabling over 10 billion transactions yearly for more than one billion global shoppers. Whether you want to book a holiday, order food, renew a subscription, or check out online, there’s a good chance our tech powers the payments behind the scenes. Our platform helps the most ambitious businesses deliver effortless digital experiences, at scale. If you want to do career-defining work, you’ve come to the right place. We move fast, think globally, and believe great teams are built by hiring exceptional people with conviction, curiosity, and the desire to make an impact. With 20 offices across six continents and London as our HQ, we’re shaping the future of fintech – and we’re just getting started. Role overview | Context As Checkout.com continues to rapidly scale and evolve its international footprint, we are seeking an exceptionally strategic Head of Reward to champion our global total rewards philosophy. Following a significant transformation period within our People team—where we have leveled up our leadership, global equity schemes, operational reporting, and data capabilities—this role is a critical hire designed to transition our reward infrastructure from foundational stability to a high-yield competitive advantage. Positioned as a key strategic partner to our leadership team, the incoming leader will directly shape a performance-led culture by aligning our total rewards with commercial growth, ensuring we continue to attract and retain world-class talent across the fintech ecosystem. Role overview | Remit and Responsibilities We are looking for a seasoned, highly strategic leader with deep domain expertise who can act as an organizational challenger and a trusted partner to senior leadership. Operating with a high degree of emotional intelligence, you will act as a "disruptor" within the people ecosystem, comfortable creating constructive conflict and relentlessly raising the global performance bar alongside the Executive Team. This role demands a leader who steps away from the "ivory tower" to actively collaborate on the ground, driving true organizational adoption of performance and compensation frameworks across al…