Partner Rewards & Experience
About The Position
As a core member of NewsBreak’s growing HR team, the Partner Rewards & Experience role will help build HR infrastructure for the company’s main business and newly incubated businesses. This builder role owns the systems and programs behind how NewsBreak rewards, develops, and listens to employees, including the annual performance and compensation review, benefits administration, total rewards infrastructure, HR policies, onboarding, and engagement. The role is expected to communicate the culture and values behind these programs, not simply administer them. The position turns recurring HR cycles into reliable, well-documented processes and turns people data into actionable insights for leaders. It works closely with HR leaders, Finance, Legal, and business leaders in a fast-moving startup environment.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in compensation, benefits, or an HR center of excellence (COE).
- Direct experience building and administering salary bands, benchmarking, bonus programs, and equity programs.
- Experience managing annual performance and merit, bonus, and equity refresh cycles end to end.
- Working knowledge of benefits regulations, such as FMLA and COBRA.
- Hands-on experience administering US benefits programs through an external vendor or broker.
- Strong presentation and writing skills, with the ability to make pay, performance, and policy programs meaningful to employees and executives.
- High integrity and discretion when handling confidential data.
- Growth mindset and willingness to learn, take on new areas, and broaden exposure in a fast-growing startup environment.
- Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business, Finance, Economics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
Nice To Haves
- Equity or sales compensation experience.
- Immigration knowledge.
- Experience in a high-growth tech or media company, including work with global or multi-country teams.
- Familiarity with Claude, ChatGPT, and other AI tools, and interest in using them to improve efficiency.
- Experience with systems and platforms such as Workday and Lattice.
- CCP, CBP, or SHRM-CP/SCP certification.
- Bilingual English/Mandarin skills for working with global teams.
Responsibilities
- Review salary bands against market benchmark data and recommend range adjustments.
- Build and maintain job architecture, including job families, levels, and leveling guidelines.
- Run the annual equity refresh and administer equity grants, vesting, and employee communications with Finance and Legal.
- Track benefits costs, utilization, and renewal trends to inform plan design.
- Own the annual performance review cycle, including the calendar, system setup, manager and employee enablement, and completion tracking.
- Design and run 360 feedback and facilitate performance calibration meetings.
- Own the promotion process, including criteria, nominations, calibration, and approvals.
- Own the annual compensation review, including merit, bonus, and promotion budgets, guidelines, modeling, and manager recommendations, using Workday or related systems and tools.
- Administer health, welfare, and retirement plans; lead open enrollment, carrier and broker coordination, and plan renewals.
- Manage vendor service-level agreements, escalations, and invoice reconciliation.
- Coordinate benefits plan filings and notices, such as ACA reporting and COBRA, with vendors and brokers.
- Draft, update, and maintain the employee handbook and HR policies, including compensation, leave, time off, expenses, and remote work.
- Partner with Legal on policy review and clearly communicate policy changes to employees and leaders.
- Use case studies and real examples to communicate the culture and values behind policies, performance, and pay programs.
- Design and deliver new-hire onboarding covering the business, products, mission, and culture; coordinate leader speakers and measure the new-hire experience.
- Design and run the company-wide engagement survey, analyze results, share insights with leadership, and track action plans to completion.
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision care for employees and their families.
- Top-tier 401(k) plan with company matching.
- Paid time off and paid holidays.
- Paid parental leave.
- FSA and commuter benefits programs.
- Team activity budget.
- The role may be eligible for a discretionary bonus and options, depending on the position.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
