Total Rewards Manager, Executive Compensation

Supercell is looking for someone to own how we reward and retain our most senior talent. This role sits within our Total Rewards team and puts you at the center of executive compensation and equity strategy, shaping long‑term incentive design, advising leadership on pay decisions, and making sure our approach is competitive, fair, and unmistakably Supercell.

What You'll Be Doing

• Own and continuously improve Supercell's executive compensation programs, base salary, annual incentives, and long‑term incentive structures.
• Own and evolve our equity programs, including grant design, allocation approaches, and refresh strategies for senior leadership.
• Design and manage equity frameworks that stay aligned with company performance, strategy, and market competitiveness.
• Co‑own global incentive programs (short‑ and long‑term) with the Compensation Manager, ensuring consistency across employee and executive populations.
• Act as the go‑to expert on executive compensation and equity, advising senior leadership on pay decisions, offers, retention strategies, and long‑term incentive design.
• Develop and maintain compensation and equity guidelines, governance, and decision frameworks that ensure consistency, fairness, and alignment with how we operate.
• Keep our executive comp and equity practices competitive through market benchmarking and external insights.
• Ensure compliance with relevant regulations, governance standards, and internal policies across all markets.
• Own executive compensation and equity data, ensuring accuracy and integrity across systems and reporting.
• Build and maintain modeling and analysis for executive comp and equity (pay positioning, grant scenarios, retention analysis, and more).
• Analyze data to surface insights on executive pay decisions, equity effectiveness, and retention risks.
• Partner with Finance on compensation and equity cost modeling, forecasting, and long‑term incentive planning.
• Support reporting needs related to executive comp and equity, including internal governance and external disclosures where applicable.
• Partner with senior leadership to provide clear, data‑driven guidance on executive compensation and equity decisions.
• Act as a trusted advisor on complex, sensitive, or high‑impact compensation and equity topics.
• From time to time, provide hands‑on support for Americas‑based compensation activities, such as offer benchmarking or benefits queries, when additional coverage is needed.

What You Have

• 10+ years of experience in compensation, with deep experience in executive compensation and equity design and management.
• Strong understanding of executive compensation structures, including short‑ and long‑term incentives (bonuses, RSUs, equity plans).
• Solid analytical skills and hands‑on experience with financial modeling, equity scenarios, and long‑term incentive planning.
• Experience advising senior stakeholders and navigating sensitive or complex compensation conversations.
• Good understanding of market practices, governance, and regulatory considerations related to executive comp and equity.
• Advanced Excel or Google Sheets skills, you're comfortable building models and analysis from scratch.
• Experience working with HRIS and compensation planning tools.
• A proactive, ownership‑driven mindset, you set priorities and drive work forward independently.
• Strong collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Clear communication and presentation skills in English.
• You're actively using AI tools in your day‑to‑day work, and excited about experimenting with new ways AI can improve how we work.

Would Be Nice if You Also Have

• Experience in a global, high‑growth, or tech environment.
• Familiarity with equity structures common in private or gaming companies.
• Experience supporting board‑level or executive committee compensation discussions.

Where You'll Be

This role is based in our London, UK studio. You'll partner closely with teams in Helsinki and across Europe and the United States. You should be comfortable with traveling roughly 20% of the time. Our Total Rewards team members are spread across Helsinki and other locations, so comfort working asynchronously and across time zones is key.