SVP, Total Rewards

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Your New Role

The Senior Vice President, Total Rewards serves as the enterprise leader responsible for designing and delivering a forward-looking total rewards strategy that attracts, motivates, and retains world-class talent. Reporting directly to the Chief People & Culture Officer, this executive will oversee the full spectrum of compensation, benefits, executive rewards, wellbeing, global mobility and recognition programs, ensuring alignment with business strategy, market competitiveness, and the company’s culture and values.

The SVP will be a strategic advisor to senior leadership, driving data-informed decision-making and ensuring the company’s rewards philosophy supports both short-term performance and long-term enterprise growth.

Your Role Accountabilities

• Develop and lead the enterprise-wide Total Rewards strategy in partnership with the Head of People & Culture and senior leadership.

• Ensure total rewards programs are market competitive, cost-effective, equitable, and aligned with business priorities, talent strategy and culture.

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO, Board of Directors, and senior leadership on executive compensation, pay equity, global mobility, and emerging total rewards trends.

• Oversee all compensation programs, including base salary structures, recognition programs, short- and long-term incentives, equity programs, and executive compensation.

• Lead the annual compensation cycle, ensuring fairness, compliance, and alignment to performance outcomes.

• Partner with the Compensation Committee on executive pay strategy, shareholder disclosures, and governance best practices.

• Direct the design and administration of global benefits programs, including health & wellness, retirement, insurance, and leave policies.

• Lead enterprise-wide wellbeing strategies that promote physical, emotional, financial, and social health for employees and their families.

• Integrate wellbeing into the overall people strategy to enhance engagement, retention, and productivity.

• Lead global mobility programs to support international assignments and relocations.

• Ensure mobility policies are competitive, compliant with international regulations, and enable deployment to support the talent strategy across global markets.

• Oversee enterprise recognition programs that celebrate performance, innovation, and contributions to the company’s culture.

• Ensure recognition strategies align with business objectives and drive a culture of appreciation.

• Leverage market data, behavioral economics, workforce analytics, and benchmarking to inform reward, wellbeing, and mobility decisions.

• Monitor competitive and regulatory trends to anticipate and adapt strategies.

• Ensure simplicity, transparency and communication of rewards programs to enhance employee understanding and engagement.

Qualifications & Experience

• 15+ years of progressive leadership experience in Total Rewards, Compensation, or related HR disciplines.

• Demonstrated experience leading global programs across multiple regions and business units.

• Strong knowledge of executive compensation governance, global mobility practices, wellbeing program design and optimal consumer grade delivery strategies.

• Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data for strategic recommendations.

• Proven ability to influence at the highest levels of the organization and with the Board of Directors.

• Experience in a publicly traded, complex global organization preferred.

Additional Information

On June 9, 2025, Warner Bros. Discovery announced plans to separate into two publicly traded companies, Warner Bros. and Discovery Global, with an expected completion in mid-2026. For more details, including leadership appointments and information on individual brands, please visit our newsroomhere.

Although you will be hired by Warner Bros. Discovery, upon the planned separation in 2026, your employment likely will transition to Discovery Global. During this period of transformation, you’ll have an exciting opportunity to lay the foundation at one of the world’s premier entertainment brands.

Hybrid Working – This role is advertised as a Hybrid work model, that combines remote and in-office work, following our current company policy and to be agreed with your Line Manager. Subject to any applicable laws, WBD / your Line Manager reserves the right to change this working agreement where this is essential to business needs and upon reasonable notice to you.

How We Get Things Done…

This last bit is probably the most important! Here at WBD, our guiding principles are the core values by which we operate and are central to how we get things done. You can find them at www.wbd.com/guiding-principles/ along with some insights from the team on what they mean and how they show up in their day to day. We hope they resonate with you and look forward to discussing them during your interview.

Championing Inclusion at WBD

Warner Bros. Discovery embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects a wide array of perspectives, backgrounds and experiences. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, regardless of sex, gender identity, ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, religion or belief, marital status, pregnancy, parenthood, disability or any other category protected by law.

If you’re a qualified candidate with a disability and you require adjustments or accommodations during the job application and/or recruitment process, please visit our accessibility page for instructions to submit your request.