Senior Director, People Operations

Maven is looking for a Senior Director, People Operations to own our compensation, equity, and benefits programs, scale our internal HR processes, systems, and analytics, and design employee policies and rewards strategy. This role will be a champion of building thoughtful rewards programs, driving process automation, and developing our people programs based on Maven’s business needs and market forces. The ideal candidate will have a depth of experience and knowledge in building innovative and scalable rewards programs and systems for a late-stage tech company.

As Senior Director, People Operations you will:

• Lead a high-performing People Operations team, promoting collaboration, accountability, and continuous skill growth.
• Partner with leaders and cross-functional partners on compensation strategy, including evolving our compensation philosophy and equity programs.
• Lead the team through regular compensation review and open enrollment cycles to analyze and assess market data, industry trends, and best practices to create market competitive reward packages.
• Lead all aspects of our HRIS systems and processes that may include evaluation and implementation of other systems and tools and optimization of HR workflows.
• Drive analytical rigor and present our people data to inform strategic decision-making and organizational planning.
• Own the strategy, design, and administration of Maven’s benefits offerings to ensure they are competitive, inclusive, and aligned with employee needs and company goals.
• Innovate and react quickly as business and market realities change, staying up to date on best practices and trends; ensure compliance with applicable legislation - work to ensure our approach is inclusive of all Mavens in our hybrid workforce and globally.
• Lead change management and communications of rewards philosophy and practices with leaders, managers, and across the company.
• Partner cross functionally with HRBPs, People Ops, and business leaders to both design and execute Maven’s performance management and talent review strategy, ensuring processes are scalable, equitable, and aligned with organizational goals. Oversee the end to end administration of these programs.
• Evolve people policies in partnership with the HRBP team to address changing business needs and enable clarity for employees.
• Partner closely with both internal (Finance, Legal, IT) and external (brokers, vendors) stakeholders on rewards initiatives, process improvements, and change management.

We’re looking for you to bring:

• 10+ years experience in total rewards strategy & administration and HR Operations
• Extensive exposure to designing and successfully executing employee and executive reward strategies and programs for both healthcare and hyper-growth technology companies
• Track record of effectively partnering with internal senior stakeholders
• Deep analytical skills with the ability to translate data and trends into key insights and recommendations; financial prowess and ability to build and manage budgets, models, etc.
• Proven ability to track, prioritize and drive to success multiple concurrent projects with a strong compensation and equity background.
• Hands-on leader. You’re resourceful, forward-thinking, drawn to building from ambiguous and unsolved problems and have an "own the outcome" mindset.
• Influence and partnering with a diverse group of stakeholders, able to partner with deeply technical as well as operational, business-minded leaders on key People Operations topics. You excel at openness and flexibility with internal clients, balanced with maintaining consistency in People philosophies and practices.
• Strong proficiency in Google Suite and an understanding of Excel/Sheets formulas and functions (pivot tables, VLOOKUPS, etc.)

Preferred Qualifications:

• Familiarity with ADP WFN, Pave, CultureAmp, Lattice
• Public or late-stage private company experience
• Experience working with non-exempt populations

The base salary range for this role is $221,000-$260,000 per year. You will also be entitled to receive stock options and benefits. Individual pay decisions are based on a number of factors, including qualifications for the role, experience level, and skillset.

Maven embraces a flexible hybrid work model. This role is open to candidates based in the New York Metropolitan area, or remote from within the US. For those in our New York City office, we encourage in-person collaboration by requiring team members to work onsite three days a week (Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday). This policy aims to balance remote work flexibility with the benefits of face-to-face interaction.