Senior Compensation & Benefits Partner

Role Summary: This role will serve as a strategic Compensation & Benefits partner supporting Adobe’s growth in India, shaping competitive and equitable reward strategies that attract, retain, and motivate top talent. The role blends deep analytics, business partnership, and program design to influence talent decisions. What You'll Do / Accountability Compensation (Cash): Design frameworks balancing external competitiveness with internal equity and benchmark pay ranges; drive pay equity analysis and remediation strategies Performance Differentiation: Develop reward guidelines, model merit redistribution, and ensure recognition of top talent. Market Insights: Provide consultative input on compensation trends and external benchmarks to guide decision-making. Annual Rewards Cycle: Drive mid-year and annual planning; advise leaders on retention and job architecture. Stakeholder Engagement: Collaborate with HRBPs, Talent Partners, COE, Regional Comp, and Analytics teams. Serve as the single point of contact for managers and HRBPs for the region, providing consultation and guidance on rewards, equity, and performance-related matters. Data & Insights: Analyze budgets, rewards data, performance outcomes, and equity allocations; segment data to identify trends and improvement areas; translate data into executive-ready insights and narratives Governance & Compliance: Ensure adherence to global compensation policies, legal requirements, and anti-trust guidelines; align India practices with global philosophy. Communications: Develop and deliver communication for employees and managers, ensuring self-service on compensation and benefits programs. Early Talent Compensation : Develop unique compensation strategies for university hires. Act as Total Rewards design/program manager for multiple key projects. Benefits Communication and Activations: Design and implement thoughtful, engaging communication strategies for the introduction and ongoing awareness of existing benefits and wellbeing programs. This includes onsite benefits and wellbeing events and activations. External Competitiveness : Monitor internal, external, and peer group compensation and benefits data/trends to ensure competitiveness and effectiveness of compensation and benefits programs for the region/country. Solution focus : Drive solutions that support self-service, simplicity, and scale (e.g., continue to outsource benefits). What You Need to Succeed 10 years of relevant experience (Master’s degree preferred in Human Resources) in Total Rewards. Solid experience in compensation and benefits design and implementation. An established network with rewards professionals in the industry is desirable. Experience in compensation insights and analytics. Ability to work with a high degree of autonomy and discretion through ambiguous phases of expansion and project development. Strong operational knowledge and expertise to handle on-ground processes. About Adobe Adobe empowers everyone to create through innovative platforms and tools that unleash creativity, productivity and personalized customer experiences. Adobe’s industry-leading offerings including Adobe Acrobat Studio, Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Creative Cloud, Adobe Experience Platform, Adobe Experience Manager, and GenStudio enable people and businesses to turn ideas into impact, powered by AI and driven by human ingenuity. Our 30,000 employees worldwide are creating the future and raising the bar as we drive the next decade of growth. We’re on a mission to hire the very best and believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. At Adobe, we believe that great ideas can come from anywhere in the organization. The next big idea could be yours. Let’s Adobe together At Adobe, we believe in creating a company culture where all employees are empowered to make an impact. Learn more about Adobe life, including our values and culture , focus on people, purpose and com ... (truncated, view full listing at source)