Lead Compensation & Benefits Manager (all genders) - People & Relations
MOIA · Hamburg, Germany
About this role
Join us as a Lead Compensation & Benefits Manager in our People & Relations team and help shape the future of autonomous mobility!
With over 20 professionals in People & Relations located in Berlin, Hamburg, Hannover & Munich, we support the company through three different teams: Talent Acquisition, People Operations, and Business Partnering. We aim to provide top-notch services, scalable concepts, and frameworks. We are key sparring partners, fostering a positive and appreciative culture. You’ll work closely with and report directly to Kati (VP People & Relations) as your people manager and collaborate mainly across the People Business Partner and People Operations teams.
As a Lead Compensation & Benefits Manager, you will take the strategic ownership of the compensation and benefits strategy and initiatives, driving the vision and direction for key projects. Alongside shaping conceptual frameworks, such as designing pay structures and leading annual compensation cycles, you will also adopt a hands-on approach to support operational compensation and benefits topics. This includes actively partnering with stakeholders and ensuring that both strategic concepts and practical solutions are implemented effectively across the organisation.
We are currently in an exciting phase of transformation, working closely with collaborating entities toward a shared goal: scalable, safe, and customer-centric autonomous mobility. Among other things, this journey includes harmonizing People & Organization practices and leveraging the strengths of those organizations to accelerate the path toward making autonomous driving a reality. This environment offers a unique opportunity to shape the future of work in a dynamic, evolving context.
What you will do
- Own Total Rewards strategy end-to-end: define our compensation philosophy and frameworks that align with MOIA’s growth and product roadmap.
- Design job architecture & pay structures: lead benchmarking, levelling, and salary banding for tech and non-tech roles; ensure internal equity and external competitiveness.
- Run annual comp processes: plan and execute merit, promotion, and adjustment cycles; steer calibration and governance with leadership.
- Evolve variable pay & recognition: refine STI/LTI concepts, incentives (where applicable), and recognition programs that drive performance and retention.
- Benefits portfolio ownership: assess, design, and negotiate benefits (health, retirement, mobility, wellbeing, time-off, insurance) for Germany and selected international locations; manage vendors and SLAs.
- Analytics & transparency: build clear reward dashboards and guidance for leaders and employees; monitor pay equity, budget impact, and regulatory compliance.
- Policy & compliance: ensure adherence to German labour, tax, and social security requirements; prepare documentation and audits.
- Works council collaboration: partner constructively on comp/benefits topics and required co-determination processes.
- Enable the organisation: create playbooks, manager guides, and comms that make rewards simple, fair, and easy to understand.
What will help you to fulfill your role
- Several years in Compensation & Benefits/Total Rewards in a tech, product, or multi-function environment with scaling needs.
- Demonstrated experience working on strategic topics, e.g. designing job architecture, benchmarking, salary bands, and comp cycles at the company or business unit level.
- Strong reward analytics skills (e.g., survey data, regression, pay equity, and range utilization); you turn insights into decisions.
- Comfortable steering senior stakeholders and driving decisions with clear narratives and numbers.
- Solid understanding ofthe German employment context (labour law interfaces, tax/social security) and experience working with works councils.
- Fluent in English; German is a plus.
- Willingness to travel occasionally to meet stakeholders onsite.
Nice to have:
- Experience with SuccessFactors Compensation (or similar HRIS) and compensation planning tools.
- Exposure to international markets (ideally tech and/or automotive) and LTI frameworks.
We welcome applicants from diverse backgrounds — even if you don’t meet every requirement. If you’re excited about the role and MOIA’s mission, we’d love to hear from you!
Our benefits in a nutshell
- Competitive salary (including bonus)
- Hybrid work setup: Work from home or one of our offices - you and your team decide how often to meet, blending flexibility with collaboration!
- Flexible working hours and the possibility of flexible work arrangements depending on your needs (parenting, care work, volunteering, etc.)
- Budget and monthly expense allowance for home office setup
- Possibility of remote work from outside Germany for up to 6 weeks per year from over 35 countries - learn more in our blog!
- Public transport ticket (fully subsidized "Deutschlandticket") for commuting and travelling throughout Germany and discount on MOIA rides
- Subsidized fitness club membership or bike leasing
- Learning environment with continuous learning days, job rotation, trainings and workshops, coaching, conferences, books, and language classes
- Mental health support, 1:1 sessions with external professionals and mental unload workshops
- 30 vacation days, sabbatical and unpaid leave option
- Relocation support with service provider (visa, administration, etc.)
- Dog-friendly offices
For student & internship positions, we have an adjusted set of benefits. You can find them here.
Be who you are!
We are a member of Charta der Vielfalt and are dedicated to actively fostering a workplace that celebrates and promotes diversity in various aspects such as age, gender identity, race, sexual orientation, physical or cognitive ability, and ethnicity. At MOIA, we embrace a culture where people are accepted, respected, valued, appreciated, and included.
In our commitment to promoting diversity and inclusivity, we regularly provide unconscious bias training to all our employees. Furthermore, we continuously strive to enhance our hiring process by ensuring a diverse hiring panel.
Our Future Work model
Since we love to collaborate, it is clear to us that we don't want to become a fully remote company, but we also don't need to spend every day of the week in the office to do a great job.
Our current hybrid work approach focuses on adapting to different needs, including increased flexibility that works best for the teams and the individuals with as much self-determination as possible.
Get more insights on how we work on our blog to find out more about our hiring process or follow us on Instagram for a look inside MOIA.
Who we are
At MOIA we’re reimagining the future of mobility – safe, autonomous and tailored to the needs of cities and their people. As a tech company with more than 400 employees, we build mobility solutions that truly move cities forward.
We launched our ridepooling service in Hamburg in 2019 and have been part of the city’s public transport system since 2023. Since launch, we have transported over 12 million passengers. Currently, MOIA is evolving from a mobility provider to a tech provider offering a scalable and safe turnkey solution for autonomous driving.
With office locations in Berlin and Hamburg, our diverse and international team comprising more than 60 nationalities works together toward that shared mission.
MOIA is more than a technology provider – we are a partner to cities and public transport operators committed to creating more livable spaces and delivering mobility solutions that are reliable, safe and comfortable.
Your application to MOIA
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