DIRECTOR, BENEFITS

Location: New York, NY

Reports to: Global Head of People Operations

About AlphaSense:

AlphaSense is a market intelligence platform used by the world's leading companies and financial institutions. Since 2011, our AI-based technology has helped professionals make smarter business decisions by delivering insights from an extensive universe of public and private content—including company filings, event transcripts, news, trade journals, and equity research. Our platform is trusted by over 1,800 enterprise customers, including a majority of the S&P 500. Headquartered in New York City, AlphaSense employs over 450 people across offices in the U.S., U.K., Finland, and India. For more information, please visit www.alpha-sense.com.

About the Role:

Reporting to the Global Head of People Operations the Director of Benefits will drive success by bringing your benefits expertise to our People Operations team. In this position, you will partner with Finance, Legal, Talent Acquisition, People Ops and Senior Leadership to understand our employees and AlphaSense’s global benefits needs. You will design best in class benefit and retirement programs that help attract and retain the best talent globally. As a leader with vision, we’ll look to you to navigate social and economic changes, build structure and ensure compliance at a time of rapid growth. You will get hands-on when needed to drive positive change throughout the company. As we continue to scale, you will leverage your experience to educate our People Partners, Leaders and Managers on policy, and leave administration. You are constantly learning about emerging market trends and delivering data-driven recommendations to build a global program fit for a scaling organization.

Who You Are:

• You are an experienced Benefits and retirement professional with the ability to create policy and drive internal education and adoption. 
• You have experience working in a global hyper-growth environment, preferably with experience scaling benefits and retirement (Pension/401k) in a rapidly changing environment. 
• You are a strong communicator with the ability to drive organizational change through partnership with employees at all levels of the organization. 
• You are an expert in using employee feedback to guide benefits offerings.
• You are obsessed with data and applying insights to create sustainable, scalable policies that drive retention and engagement.
• You are a skilled storyteller, with the ability to turn quantitative data into a qualitative tale. 
• You are a DEI champion with demonstrated success creating and implementing strategy, specifically related to benefits and retirement. 
• You will have 10+ years of experience in global benefits; experience working for pre-IPO and/or publicly traded companies preferred.

What You'll Do:

• Build and lead a team of benefits experts spanning across the administration of employee medical/dental/vision plans, ancillary insurance offerings, memberships and discounts, retirement (pension and 401k), and leaves administration. 
• Evaluate, design, implement, and communicate benefit strategies across our global teams in the United States, United Kingdom, Finland, and India. 
• Implement policies and procedures to ensure equitable and competitive employee benefit offerings
• Stay current with federal, state, and regional legislation changes.
• Evaluate the benefits programs including: insurance programs, retirement plans, sick leave, time off and vacation policies. 
• Ensures programs are current with regard to trends, practices and costs. 
• Coordinate vendor management, wellness and health education initiatives. 
• Negotiate coverage services and costs with carriers. 
• Play a major role in the selection, administration and maintenance of benefit brokers, carrier and insurance relationships.
• Administer the company’s pension and retirement plans (401k).
• Ensure compliance with ACA, SOC2, non-discrimination testing, worker’s compensation, and other regulatory reporting requirements. 

AlphaSense is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to a work environment that supports, inspires, and respects all individuals. All employees share in the responsibility for fulfilling AlphaSense’s commitment to equal employment opportunity. AlphaSense does not discriminate against any employee or applicant on the basis of race, color, sex (including pregnancy), national origin, age, religion, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, military or veteran status, disability, or any other non-merit factor. This policy applies to every aspect of employment at AlphaSense, including recruitment, hiring, training, advancement, and termination.

In addition, it is the policy of AlphaSense to provide reasonable accommodation to qualified employees who have protected disabilities to the extent required by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances where a particular employee works.