Director, Benefits & Wellness

The People team is a core enabler of the business, with a true seat at the table and broad visibility across the company. From compensation and benefits to performance and onboarding, the team takes a comprehensive approach to supporting employees and leaders alike. We embed ourselves into departments, understanding needs and shaping the foundational strategies that will help individuals thrive as the company scales. Every challenge is an opportunity to solve for what really matters, with agility, empathy, and creativity.

Benefits Strategy & the Self-Insured Transition

Lead the strategy, planning, and execution of the move from a fully insured to a self-insured medical plan, partnering with consultants, Finance, and Legal to evaluate financial exposure, plan design, claims projections, etc.

Own the plan's ongoing financial and operational performance: claims monitoring, forecasting, utilization analysis, vendor performance, and early identification of cost and risk trends.

Benefits, Wellbeing & Perks Team

Build wellbeing and perks programs with clear objectives and measures of success, and regularly evaluate utilization, cost, employee feedback, and market practice to decide where to invest, change course, or discontinue.

Lead benefits communications and education so employees understand and use their programs.

Analytics & Financial Management

Develop a comprehensive view of benefits performance and establish metrics that show costs and return on investment via financial models, scenario analyses, and business cases for significant decisions.

Lead the Leave, Accommodations & Workers' Compensation Team

Oversee leave of absence, disability, accommodation, and workers' compensation programs, ensuring they're in compliance with internal policy and applicable laws.

About You:

5+ years of progressive benefits experience with significant ownership of health and welfare programs.

Direct experience managing self-insured medical plans is required; leading or playing a major role in a fully insured–to–self-insured transition is strongly preferred.

Strong analytical and financial skills, with hands-on experience analyzing medical and pharmacy claims, utilization, and healthcare trends, and building financial models and business cases in partnership with Finance.

Strong command of plan design, stop-loss, TPAs, PBMs, consultants, and healthcare cost management, plus experience leading complex renewals, implementations, and vendor negotiations.

Nice to haves but not required:

A hands-on leadership style, sound judgment balancing employee experience, compliance, and financial stewardship, and the ability to move between strategy and execution in a fast-paced environment.

Experience directly managing a team and strong working knowledge ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA and ADA.

Significant experience with leave, disability, accommodation, and workers' compensation programs, and with benefits across multiple populations or sites.

At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors. Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

Hiring Range:

$170,000 — $255,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

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