Total Rewards Specialist

Re. Orbit is looking for a Total Rewards Specialist to design and administer the compensation, equity, and benefits programs that keep us competitive for rare deep tech talent. This is a foundational hire for our People Centre of Excellence building the frameworks that support fair, consistent, and market-competitive pay as we push the boundaries of space data transfer.

It's an exciting chance to join a dynamic start-up, with the opportunity to make a real impact, to reach our goal of pushing the boundaries of space data transfer.

Responsibilities

Design and maintain career levels and compensation bands for both individual contributor and management tracks across Finland, Germany, and India, ensuring structures are internally equitable and defensible as the organization scales. Maintain market data across tech and aerospace compensation surveys, refreshing compensation bands at least annually to keep Re.

Orbit competitive for scarce deep tech talent. Own the annual compensation review process end-to-end, including budget allocation support, manager calibration, and clear communication of outcomes to employees and leadership. Partner closely with Talent Acquisition to benchmark offers against approved bands, providing timely guidance so hiring decisions stay competitive and consistent with existing employee compensation.

Manage the full equity lifecycle, including grant calculations, vesting tracking, and refresh cycles, with clear communication to employees at key moments such as departure or exercise windows. Design market-appropriate benefits packages by country, balancing cost, competitiveness, and employee needs, while partnering with HR Operations, who own day-to-day enrolment administration and provider liaison.

Conduct regular pay equity reviews across gender and other relevant dimensions, identifying and helping resolve gaps before they become compliance or retention risks. Ensure all compensation practices, including salary range disclosure, meet applicable regulatory requirements such as the EU Pay Transparency Directive, staying ahead of upcoming legislative changes across Re.

Orbit's markets. Act as the primary point of contact for compensation-related questions from HRBP, HR Operations, and Country HR leads, ensuring reward decisions are applied consistently across geographies. Provide compensation and equity reporting to leadership, including board-level equity pool reporting, to support informed workforce planning and investment decisions.

Skills and Requirements 5+ years of experience in compensation and benefits, total rewards, or a related specialist HR function. Demonstrated experience designing job architecture and compensation bands, ideally across multiple countries.

• Hands-on experience with equity administration, grants, vesting, and refresh cycles.
• Familiarity with market benchmarking tools and methodologies (e.g., tech and/or aerospace compensation surveys).
• Working knowledge of pay equity and transparency regulations relevant to the EU.
• Experience in a scaling tech, engineering, or deep tech organization preferred.
• High attention to detail and comfort with ambiguity in a fast-growing, multi-country environment.
• Strong stakeholder management skills, able to partner effectively with HRBP, HR Operations, and Talent Acquisition What does Re. Orbit do? Re. Orbit builds the foundation for the next generation of space applications by transforming satellites into truly intelligent, interconnected platforms, defined by software. Our satellite design philosophy revolves around the idea that satellites must network, communicate with each other and thus improve mission efficiency. How can this be achieved? Thanks to a flexible software-first architecture, where all these aspects are dealt with upfront in the mission concept, as integrated functionalities. Re. Orbit’s top-notch team of software engineers and system architects develop in-house software, procure hardware from the best-in-class suppliers, and seamlessly integrate the components to create flexible and secure satellites. Today, we are a rapidly growing company building a very strong multidisciplinary team to support our activities. We are headquartered in Helsinki, Finland with a subsidiaries in Bristol, UK, Bariloche, Argentina and Bengaluru, India. Working at Re. Orbit At Re. Orbit, we are focused on building a strong team as we believe nothing can be accomplished without innovative, humble and curious minds working together on a common goal. We’re all about fostering an inclusive, dynamic environment where equality and diversity are our strength. We offer Challenging but rewarding environment – you will thrive if you are always reflecting on how to make things better. Your ideas will be heard. Ambitious and supportive network of people, who are motivated to change the space industry, bringing expertise from both classic and new space .

Benefits

such as lunch vouchers, events, parties, occupational health care and additional health insurance - but most importantly a possibility to be a part of a unique and diverse team, connected by similar mindset and sense of humor. We like to spend time together! You can choose activities whichever is to your liking – run.

Orbit, climb. Orbit; become ping pong or board games champion. We support relocation and integration into Finnish society. Join us in our journey of building software enabled satellites for secure communications and, thus, creating the most compelling in space data flow company of the new space era. The Company may require a security clearance for certain positions.

Any such security clearance will be conducted in accordance with applicable law and the Company's relevant policies For agencies: We do not accept unsolicited CVs for our open vacancies. Any CV sent to our team unsolicited will reserve us the right to pursue a candidate without obligation to the sender. All candidate submissions must be conducted through our official channels and in accordance with our terms of engagement.