Newsbreak
Partner Rewards & Experience
Mountain View, California, United States. Posted 28 days ago
The role
You will build and run the engine for rewards, development, and employee listening. This includes owning annual performance and compensation reviews, benefits administration, total rewards infrastructure, HR policies, and employee experience.
What you will do
- Build total rewards infrastructure
- Review salary bands against market benchmark data
- Build and maintain job architecture
- Run annual equity refresh and administer equity program
- Track benefits cost, utilization and renewal trends
- Own the annual performance review cycle
- Design and run 360 feedback and facilitate performance calibration meetings
- Own the promotion process
- Own the annual compensation review
- Administer health, welfare and retirement plans
Required qualifications
- 7+ years in compensation, benefits, or HR COE
- Direct experience working on building and administrating salary band, benchmarking, bonus and equity program
- Experience managing annual performance and merit/bonus/equity refresh cycle end to end
- Working knowledge of benefits regulations (e.g., FMLA, COBRA)
- Hands-on experience administering US benefits programs through an external vendor/broker
- Engaging, high-energy presenter and clear writer
- High integrity and discretion with confidential data
- Growth mindset
- Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Finance, Economics or related field, or equivalent experience
Nice to have
- Equity/Sales compensation experience
- immigration knowledge
- Experience in a high-growth tech or media company, including global or multi-country teams
- Savy with Claude, ChatGPT, and love to explore AI tools to build for efficiency
- Experience with systems and platforms such as Workday, Lattice
- CCP, CBP or SHRM-CP/SCP certification
- Bilingual English / Mandarin
Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision care for you and your family
- 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
About the company
NewsBreak is a local life and news platform with more than 40 million monthly users. It includes the NewsBreak platform, Nearby AI, and NDot AI.