Benefits Manager

Who we areAbout StripeStripe is a financial infrastructure platform for businesses. Millions of companies—from the world’s largest enterprises to the most ambitious startups—use Stripe to accept payments, grow their revenue, and accelerate new business opportunities. Our mission is to increase the GDP of the internet, and we have a staggering amount of work ahead. That means you have an unprecedented opportunity to put the global economy within everyone’s reach while doing the most important work of your career.About the teamAt Stripe, we’re constantly working on ways to optimize our benefits programs and improve the experience for our users. We are looking for a leader for our Americas Benefits team to design and enhance Stripe’s future benefits programs in the US, CAN, LATAM and beyond. In this role, you’ll drive the development of the benefits strategy to scale and support fast paced growth, deliver creative and flexible programs, while also developing and leading a best in class team.  Your work will be instrumental to Stripe achieving its mission by supporting every Stripe to take care of themselves and their family, and to do their best work.What you’ll doLead the execution of the benefits and time off strategy including future plan designs and offerings Identify gaps in the current offerings and design the programs and projects to remedy these findingsLead the annual benefits benchmarking, renewal cycles and contract negotiations to ensure competitive and compelling benefits offeringsSelect and manage vendors, carriers and brokers Create employee benefits communications & enablement materials including content and delivery strategyDrive and implement enhancements to our benefits tools, technologies & communication vehicles to support the user experience and allow for scalabilityLeverage data, insights, and craft to inform design and decisions on strategy and programsDevelop productive, collaborative cross-functional relationships with Total Rewards team members and the broader People, Systems, Payroll, Finance, Legal and Tax teamsWho you areWe’re looking for someone who meets the minimum requirements to be considered for the role. If you meet these requirements, you are encouraged to apply. The preferred qualifications are a bonus, not a requirement.Minimum requirements10+ years of experience in an employee benefits role in a US/multi country (preferably US, CAN & LATAM), including various insurance, retirement, time off and leave programs 3+ years of leadership and managerial experience of benefits teams at scaling companies Strong organizational and operational skills, and ability to manage and execute on multiple concurrent projects/competing prioritiesPassion for leading and developing teams and building and nurturing trusting relationships both internally and externallyAbility to influence across various levels within the organization as well as vendors, brokers and carriersExperience working collaboratively across functional, technical, and operational teams to design and build holistic solutions to challenging problemsDemonstrated success in bringing projects and programs to marketExceptional communication skills, both written and verbalStrong analytical skills with a proven ability to model cost impacts of current and future programsWorkday benefits module experience Preferred qualificationsExperience establishing and building new benefits programs related to new country expansionsA creative thinker who can focus on new ways to make things work more efficiently and at scaleA strategic thinker whose decisions are informed by data, experience, and Stripe’s operating principles