This is a fully remote position
Salary range: $82,500 - $116,250
Who We Are: Defense Unicorns delivers mission value by streamlining software delivery so our customers can focus on the most important challenges. We share a vision of freedom and security for the advancement of progress and innovation. Our commitment to this vision, and to our mission-driven customers, means a commitment to speed, user experience and optionality, without compromising security. Our team is composed of innovators, software engineers, and veterans with decades of experience delivering technology programs across the federal market.
What We Do: We create and deliver secure solutions for continuous software integration and delivery. Defense Unicorns consolidates the best practices for security pipelines, testing, and deployment automation in order to meet the high security requirements valued by mission owners. Our solutions are agnostic by design and we believe that growing a robust ecosystem of secure, cloud-native software solutions can help enterprise customers inside and outside the federal market buy and integrate software more easily.
Who We Serve: Defense Unicorns’ customers are mission-focused leaders across public and private enterprises. We proudly support defense and civil agencies across the U.S. government and we work closely with the creators of leading-edge software solutions to deliver value to the mission-owner by improving the security and consumability of commercial software products.
The Unicorn We're Looking For:
We are looking for a new Unicorn to join our People Operations team to focus on the organization's compensation and benefits programs. This Unicorn is:
- Passionate about compensation and benefits programs and understands the importance of these programs in the lives of employees and their families.
- Organized in their approach to work and able to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
- Attentive to details and will maintain complete, accurate, and secure records.
- Eager to analyze data in order to make informed decisions and recommendations around compensation and benefits strategies.
- Effective in their communication with various audiences who have different levels of understanding on how compensation and benefits programs operate (i.e. employees, company leadership, brokers, carriers, and vendors).
- Compassionate in their support and guidance to employees navigating enrollments, claims processes, and various issues and questions.
- Ethical and places value on compliance with relevant regulations and confidentiality of employee information.
This will be the first role of its kind for the company and will be an integral part of the existing People Operations team.
About the Company and People Operations Team:
Defense Unicorns is a rapidly scaling tech remote-first tech startup born out of the ethos that security, prosperity, and innovation hinge on the ability to securely deliver software. At Defense Unicorns the order of priority is: 1) People 2) Culture 3) Process 4) Technology.
Our unicorn talent is one of our company's unique differentiators and People Operations is closely integrated with the business. The compensation and benefits programs are two of the key components in attracting and retaining talented unicorns. Our existing People Ops team currently consists of professionals focused on talent acquisition and people operations generalist/business partner disciplines but we're very excited to bring in someone specialized in compensation and benefits.
All members of the People Operations team champion the Defense Unicorns' values and habits through the company - open to experimentation, taking ownership of creating an amazing work experience, and having fun are big parts of what this team is about! As a startup, company policies and procedures are being defined and refined as we learn; We're frequently operating in new circumstances and we navigate with a combination of professionalism, autonomy, creativity, and critical thinking. We focus on outcomes and desired objectives rather than executing based on "the way it has always been done".
Responsibilities of this Role:
- Work with company leadership on the design and implementation of a comprehensive total rewards strategy. This will include compensation and benefits programs that align company values, desired outcomes, and legal and regulatory compliance obligations.
- Analyze trends in the market and industry to ensure our total rewards offerings are attractive and competitive in the talent market.
- Solicit and analyze feedback from employees on their experience with our benefits and compensation programs to inform future enhancements and recommendations to our total rewards strategy.
- Provide reports, data, and recommendations to the company's leadership team about the organization's rewards programs.
- Manage the day-to-day administration of Defense Unicorns' employee benefits offerings, including: medical, dental, vision, 401K, life and disability insurance, parental leave, and other additional benefits programs.
- Manage the benefits renewal and the open enrollment process.
- Educate employees and prospective employees on the company's benefit programs so that they understand eligibility, coverage, and the value of the program.
This will include:
- Benefits orientations/materials for new employees.
- Translation of benefits terminology and jargon into accessible language for employees to support understanding and utilization.
- Addressing individual questions and concerns.
- Collaboration with the Unicorn Collecting (Talent Acquisition) team to provide an accurate overview of benefits offerings to prospective candidates to support the hiring process.
- Provide ongoing communication, guidance, and support to employees with respect to benefits.
- Partner with Finance and Operations to develop and manage the budget for compensation and benefits.
- Verify the accuracy of employee benefit deductions in the payroll system for the payroll process.
- Support the quarterly compensation planning and review cycles.
- Liaise with brokers, carriers, and vendors to ensure accurate and timely enrollments and changes to enrollments, negotiate rates and services for new and renewed benefits contracts, and to resolve questions and concerns.
- Maintain accurate records of employee benefits, including elections and benefit plan documentation, and ensure that data is kept secure and confidential.
- Ensure compliance with applicable federal, state, and local employment and benefits laws and regulations, such as the Affordable Care Act (ACA), Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA), and HIPPA. Prepare and file required reports and disclosures, such as Form 5500 and Summary Plan Descriptions.
Preferred Qualifications:
The following experienced and knowledge would be helpful but is not required:
- Benefits administration experience.
- Knowledge of benefits contract language.
- Knowledge of pertinent federal and state regulations, filing and compliance requirements affecting employee benefits programs (including ACA, ERISA, COBRA, FMLA, ADA, Section 125, Medicare, and DOL requirements).
- Strong analytical skills and experience with using data to inform and drive good decision-making.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
- Attentive to detail and able to manage multiple tasks and projects.
- Experience working with remote or distributed teams.
Travel Expectations:
- 5%-10% - This is a remote US based position. Travel would consist of company retreats and team building events/conference attendance.
Benefits Our Unicorns Enjoy:
Health:
- Medical/Dental/Vision
- Premiums are 100% Company Paid
- Health Reimbursement Account
- Life Insurance
- Disability Insurance
Financial:
Annual Salary Range: $82,500 - $116,250
- 401k with Employer Contribution (Regardless of Employee Contribution)
- Company Stock Options
- Home Office Setup Budget
Leave:
- Unlimited paid time off, with a mandatory 10 days off on top of 11 federal government holidays, week of Thanksgiving, last two weeks of December (including New Year’s Day)
- Paid Parental Leave
Learning:
- Reimbursement for approved trainings/subscriptions
- Conferences (travel, lodging, and fees)
Defense Unicorns is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, disability, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, veteran status, genetic information, union status and/or beliefs, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law.
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