Associate Director, Total Rewards

Summary

Join Gemini's People Team as the Associate Director of Total Rewards and play a pivotal role in shaping the company's compensation and benefits strategy. You will build and implement long-term Total Rewards programs, manage a growing team, and collaborate with various departments. This role requires extensive experience in compensation and benefits, strong analytical skills, and a deep understanding of compliance. You will oversee global compensation and benefits programs, ensuring market competitiveness and internal equity. The position offers a competitive salary, bonus, equity grant, and comprehensive benefits package. Gemini offers a flexible hybrid work policy in select locations.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in human resource management, business, accounting or a combination of relevant experience, education and training
• 10+ years experience working in compensation or total rewards with experience in program design, market surveys, trend analysis, and business advisory; 4+ years managing Total Rewards programs and strategies
• 7+ years experience analyzing large, complex quantitative datasets; strength in data analytics
• Strong client focus with outstanding judgment, critical thinking and analytical skills
• Understanding of compliance in terms of pay equity with an eagerness to learn about and keep up-to-date on current employment legislation and industry trends
• Strict attention to detail
• Strong cross-functional project management skills
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; comfortable fielding difficult questions
• Demonstrated judgment and ability to deal with confidential and sensitive matters effectively
• Advanced Proficiency with Google Suite (Gmail, Google Calendar, Drive, Sheets). Working knowledge of HRIS query and report writing tools
• Ability to multitask and remain flexible in a fast-paced, start-up environment

Responsibilities

• Actualize our Total Rewards philosophy by implementing and refining rewards programs and streamlining internal processes for system and process updates
• Collaborate effectively with People Operations, Talent Acquisition and Leaders across the organization
• Work closely with the Talent team to build competitive and equitable compensation offerings, while leveraging knowledge of the evolving talent landscape
• Manage, develop and empower a growing team of 3+ professionals focused on benefits and wellness, compensation, Immigration and Mobility; provide ongoing mentorship, training and development with an eye towards empowerment
• Oversee creation and integration of policies and procedures, ensuring compliance on a global scale
• Regularly benchmark company programs and monitor external trends in order to proactively adjust programs to ensure market competitiveness
• Oversee the company’s global compensation and benefits programs, including health, relocations, wellness and retirement programs to ensure attraction and retention of top talent
• Consistently enhance data sets by including relevant market data and develop recommendations for updates to job architecture, salary structures, benefit plans and short-term incentive plans
• Ensure benchmarking data and coding is reviewed on a regular basis and adjustments are made in line with the employee lifecycle
• Collaborate closely on People Ops technology implementation and maintenance including total rewards data management, data source integration, forecasting, reporting, and analysis
• Work with People Analytics to build out predictive modeling, analyses, report, and derive conclusions from complex interconnected data including visualization of data and trends including market intelligence data
• Collaborate with People Operations Business Partners to ensure consistency of messaging
• Oversee bi-annual pay analysis to ensure internal parity; design, build and evolve compensation metrics, reporting and tools to inform compensation program decisions
• Standardize, document and automate total rewards analysis, review, approval and implementation processes across all jurisdictions

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to respond to changing situations in a flexible manner and reprioritize accordingly to meet immediate needs
• Experience with statistical software such as SQL, R, SPSS
• Ability to manage immediate, short-term projects while also moving forward with longer term initiatives
• Ability to identify areas for process improvement and provide recommendations for improvements; desire to enhance efficiency and automate whenever possible
• Experience with Workday

Benefits

• Competitive starting salary
• A discretionary annual bonus
• Long-term incentive in the form of a new hire equity grant
• Comprehensive health plans
• 401K with company matching
• Paid Parental Leave
• Flexible time off
• Salary Range : The base salary range for this role is between $182,000 - $227,000 in the State of New York, the State of California and the State of Washington. This range is not inclusive of our discretionary bonus or equity package. When determining a candidate’s compensation, we consider a number of factors including skillset, experience, job scope, and current market data