Vice President, Total Rewards & People Operations

About This Role: 

The Vice President, Total Rewards & People Operations leads our benefits, compensation and people operations functions as well as oversee our HR systems, technologies and analytics. You will work collaboratively with an exceptional People leadership team to build scalable rewards frameworks that drive employee engagement and retain our top talent.

What You'll Do:

• Lead, develop and implement innovative compensation and rewards programs. Oversee the administration of our biannual base pay reviews, annual bonus plans and equity grants. Ensures our base salary ranges, job architecture, and pay equity reporting is current and aligned with our compensation philosophy. Conducts market pricing and competitive analytics to assess ongoing competitiveness. 
• Oversees benefits programs providing innovative plan design, long-term strategic framework, and engaging communications, while ensuring cost effectiveness. Identifies and executes wellness programs that are aligned with company culture and engage our people.
• Oversees 401(k) plan administration, annual audit, facilitates committee meetings, and ensures compliance with regulations.
• Oversees relationships with benefit, 401(k) and wellness brokers/vendors, tracks spend, maintains budget, and negotiates renewals to ensure cost effectiveness is preserved.
• Leads and enhances our on-boarding, and offboarding programs through development of engaging communication materials, people focused workflows and thoughtful use of technology.
• Leads our compliance programs, including mandatory training, policies and our handbook.
• Tracks, monitors and ensures compliance with federal, state and local employment laws, regulations and policies. Keeps People Team colleagues informed of new and changing legislation that may impact the organization or our people. 
• Oversees Crexi’s HR Systems and optimization including system integrations, and workflows.
• Oversees payroll to ensure accuracy and compliance performing analysis of current payroll processes to design and implementing improvements.
• Oversees leave of absence program providing day-to-day leadership, oversight, and coordination to ensure leaves are administered effectively, accurately and People Team members are kept informed as appropriate.
• Collaborates closely with Talent Acquisition, People Business Partners, Finance, IT, Legal, etc. to ensure alignment.
• Leads our People Operations team including coaching, managing and guiding team members to ensure highly responsive, accurate, and credible support to our team members.

Who You Are:

• Thrives in a fast-paced, dynamic environment.
• Exceptional communication skills and an ability to provide clear and concise insights to cross functional teams.
• Responsive, action-oriented, and innovative problem solver.
• Excellent organizational and prioritization skills and an ability to demonstrate and handle multiple tasks accurately and efficiently.
• Strong strategic thinking and analytical skills, with the ability to translate business goals into actionable plans.

Preferred Education & Experience

• Bachelor's degree in business, or related field (Master's degree preferred).
• 15+ years of progressive experience in high growth environments, with at least 7 years proven experience in a management role.

The anticipated base salary range for candidates who will work in Playa Vista, California location is $200,000-265,000. The final salary offered to a successful candidate will depend on several factors, which may include, but are not limited to, the type and length of experience applicable to the role and within the industry, education, geographic location, etc. Commercial Real Estate Exchange, Inc (“Crexi”) is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other states.