Senior Director, Total Rewards

Peregrine Technologies•San Francisco, CA

About The Position

Backed by leading Silicon Valley investors, Peregrine helps public safety organizations, state and local and governments, federal agencies, and private-sector institutions address society’s challenges with unprecedented speed and accuracy. Our AI-enabled platform turns siloed and disconnected data into operational intelligence — instantly surfacing mission-critical information to empower better, faster decisions that improve outcomes at every touchpoint. Today Peregrine supports hundreds of customers across 30+ states and two countries, serving more than 125 million people — and we’re amplifying our impact as we expand into the enterprise and internationally. The Role At Peregrine, we are building the machinery for an incredible journey and are looking for a Sr Director, Total Rewards to help us architect, build and lead the team and infrastructure that supports our people through every phase of growth. This role owns compensation, benefits, people operations, HR systems, and workforce analytics—and most importantly, shapes how we think about the employee experience as a strategic lever for building a world-class company. This is both a build and lead role. You'll be designing the scaffolding: designing the job architecture, articulating the compensation philosophy, crafting leveling frameworks, benefits programs, systems, and processes that will support us as we quickly transition from hundreds of employees to several thousand. You'll also build the team of experts who will own these domains alongside you. The right person has done this before—built Total Rewards infrastructure, at this size through rapid growth—and has also operated in larger organizations where they've seen what mature, exceptional programs look like. You know what good looks like at scale, and you know how to build it at various stages.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive experience in total rewards, compensation, or HR leadership, with at least 5 years in senior leadership roles
Experience building Total Rewards infrastructure through significant growth—ideally in technology or high-growth environments
Deep expertise in compensation strategy, including equity compensation, job architecture, and market benchmarking
Strong command of HR systems and data infrastructure; experience leading system implementations
Experience designing and scaling people operations functions
Demonstrated ability to balance strategic thinking with operational excellence—you can design the vision and also make the spreadsheet work
Credibility to partner with executives and boards on compensation matters
A builder mindset: you're energized by creating something from the ground up, not just optimizing what exists
Comfort with ambiguity and a bias toward sustainable systems over quick fixes, and knowing when to use which.