We’re looking for a Senior Manager of Total Rewards with a focus on employee benefits strategy, design, and execution to help us deliver innovative, competitive, and scalable total rewards programs globally.
In this role you will work to identify, design, and develop comprehensive Compensation and Total Rewards strategies to support Drata’s current and future growth. This is an exciting opportunity for someone who enjoys building a competitive total rewards program from the ground up, and thrives in a strategic high growth environment. As a high-growth SaaS company, we move fast, think big, and never settle for the status quo. Our people are our competitive edge, and we’re committed to building a world-class employee experience that scales with our rapid growth.
What you’ll do:
- Lead benefits strategy and execution for our global workforce, ensuring programs are competitive, compliant, cost-effective, and aligned with our company values and growth objectives.
- Partner with executive leadership and external consultants to design and implement scalable benefits programs across medical, dental, vision, wellness, time off, retirement, and voluntary offerings.
- Drive annual benefits renewal, open enrollment, and vendor RFP processes, negotiating with providers and ensuring optimal pricing and service delivery.
- Manage relationships with brokers, insurers, TPAs, and other vendors to ensure high-quality employee experience and ongoing service excellence.
- Lead benefits compliance activities (ACA, ERISA, HIPAA, COBRA, 5500 filings, etc.) in collaboration with Legal and Finance.
- Analyze market data and internal benchmarks to develop forward-looking recommendations for evolving our benefits strategy across regions.
- Partner with internal communications and HRBPs to deliver clear, engaging education and communication campaigns around benefits programs.
- Drive wellness and wellbeing strategy, ensuring it supports productivity, retention, and employee engagement.
- Support global expansion efforts with benefits due diligence, integration, and localization strategies.
- Collaborates on communication strategies and activities designed to educate and inform employees about total rewards
- Determines and implements metrics that assess and monitor the effectiveness of total rewards initiatives
- Develops and communicates the organization’s total rewards strategy as it relates to base salary, variable pay, equity, benefits (health and welfare, COBRA, 401k), associate recognition and work/life components (PTO/VTO), Leads and manages the annual merit cycle, to include an executive roll up and summary
- Directs the overall benefit annual enrollment process, strategy/analysis and required annual compliance filings, audits (including 401k) and compliance notifications with vendor support.
What you’ll bring:
- 7+ years of relevant experience leading Total rewards for high-growth organizations experience in a SaaS B2B/B2C environment strongly preferred
- International compensation and benefits experience a plus
- Experience analyzing and developing cash and equity rewards targets in a private company environment
- Extensive experience with financial and rewards modeling
- Experience with stock options, RSUs and other equity vehicles
- Proven ability to analyze people-centric data
- Experience interacting with all levels of the organization, including senior leaders
- Prior experience in a high-growth, fast-paced tech or SaaS environment strongly preferred.
Benefits:
- Healthcare: 90-100% paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision plans for employee and dependents + on demand health care concierge
- HSA, FSA, & DCFSA: Pre-tax savings plans for healthcare and dependent care, with up to a $600 annual employer contribution to the HSA plan (if enrolled in HSA medical plan)
- 100% paid short and long term disability plus life + AD&D benefits
- Learning & Development: $500 annually towards professional development opportunities + $250 annually towards personal development opportunities
- Flexible Time Off: Flexible vacation policy for strong, fully charged batteries
- 16 Weeks Paid Parental Leave: An inclusive policy to ensure you have time with your newborn, newly adopted, or foster child
- Work Remotely: Flexible hours and work from home + $1,000 annually to cover necessary business related items for your home office
- 401K: Reach your financial goals while reducing your taxes
This role will receive a competitive base salary, benefits, and stock, typically in the form of Restricted Stock Units (RSUs). The applicable salary range for each US-based role is based on where the employee works and is aligned to one of 3 tiers based on the cost of labor for that geographic area. The expected salary ranges for this role are below, subject to change.
Tier 1: $183,000 - $226,000
Tier 2: $165,000 - $204,000
Tier 3: $132,000 - $163,000
You can view which tier applies to where you plan to work here. A variety of factors are considered when determining someone’s leveling and compensation–including a candidate’s professional background and experience. These ranges may be modified in the future and final offer amounts may vary from the amounts listed above.
Drata is on a mission to serve as the trust layer between great companies.
Drata is a trust management platform that uses AI-driven automation to modernize governance, risk, and compliance, helping thousands of businesses develop a more secure, proactive, and risk-aware organization to continuously maintain trust with customers.
We all recognize the importance of earning and keeping the trust of our customers when it comes to protecting their data. We know how burdensome achieving and maintaining a strong GRC posture can be with the rise in compliance regulations. It’s a manual, redundant, error-prone, and unscalable process - and it only grows more complex and expensive over time.
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Employment at Drata is based solely upon individual merit and qualifications directly related to professional competence. We strictly prohibit unlawful discrimination or harassment on the basis of race, color, religion, veteran status, national origin, ancestry, pregnancy status, sex, gender identity or expression, age, marital status, mental or physical disability, medical condition, sexual orientation, or any other characteristics protected by law. We also make reasonable accommodations to meet our obligations under laws protecting the rights of the disabled.
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The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Drata and has not been reviewed or approved by Drata.
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Healthcare Strength — Health coverage includes up to full employer-paid premiums for medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents, alongside wellness support. This level of coverage is positioned as strong for a remote-first tech company.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Time off offerings include flexible/unlimited PTO and recurring summer half-day Fridays. These features support recharge and flexibility in a remote-first environment.
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Fair & Transparent Compensation — Pay is considered competitive in many roles, especially in sales and engineering, and is sometimes described as above market. Reported ranges for Account Executives and engineers align with this, pointing to a slightly positive overall read on pay.
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