Head of Total Rewards & Benefits

Amplitude is the leading AI analytics platform, helping over 5,200 customers—including Atlassian, Burger King, NBCUniversal, and Square—build better products and digital experiences. With powerful AI Agents embedded across our platform, teams can analyze, test, and optimize user experiences faster than ever. Ranked #1 across multiple categories in G2’s Winter 2026 Report, Amplitude is the best-in-class solution for product, data, and marketing teams. Learn more at amplitude.com.

As an organization, we deliver for our customers by living our values. We operate from a place of humility, take ownership of problems and successes, approach challenges with a growth mindset, and put our customers at the center of everything we do.

Amplitude is hiring a Head of Total Rewards & Benefits, reporting directly to the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO), to own our compensation programs and global benefits portfolio. Amplitude is a leading digital analytics platform that helps companies understand how customers use their products and act on those insights, and our People team attracts, rewards, and retains the talent that builds it. This is a senior, hands-on leadership role with regular partnership with the CEO, CFO, General Counsel, and other executives, serving as a trusted advisor to the Compensation Committee of the Board of Directors. You’ll design and run a total rewards strategy that is competitive, financially disciplined, legally sound, and fair, while ensuring employees around the world understand and value our programs.

As a Head of Total Rewards & Benefits, you will:

• Own global compensation strategy and programs: Set and evolve our compensation philosophy, pay structures, salary bands, leveling, and job architecture, using market benchmarking to keep programs current across geographies. Design and administer equity programs, including RSUs, stock options, ESPP, and new-hire and retention grants, in partnership with Finance, Legal, and our equity plan administrator. Advise on offers and retention situations, own pay equity analysis and remediation, and ensure compliance with applicable compensation regulations.

• Lead compensation planning and employee enablement: Own annual and midyear compensation cycles, including manager training, compensation planning tools in partnership with People Systems, and budget alignment with Finance. Partner closely with People Business Partners to support business needs and effective global administration, and drive employee communications that build transparency and understanding of our total rewards programs.

• Partner with executives and the Compensation Committee: Serve as the primary People team contact for Committee materials, preparing analyses, recommendations, and decks and supporting the CHRO in presenting them. Lead executive and director compensation recommendations, peer-group selection, pay-for-performance analysis, and equity burn and dilution modeling. Partner with Finance on compensation budgets, headcount cost forecasting, equity expense, and share pool planning, and with Legal on proxy and SEC disclosure inputs, plan documents, and governance requirements.

• Lead global benefits end to end: Own the strategy, design, vendor management, and delivery of health and wellness, retirement and savings, leave and time off, mental health and family support, and perks. Lead renewals and open enrollment, including broker and carrier selection, financial modeling, funding strategy, and contract negotiation. Oversee administration, vendor performance, data integrity, employee support, and compliance with ERISA, ACA, COBRA, 401(k), and local statutory requirements. Use utilization, cost trends, and employee feedback to improve value and control costs, and drive retirement plan committee requirements and quarterly meetings.

• Build and run the Total Rewards function: Lead and develop the team, manage external partners and advi...