Director, Total Rewards: Equity, Compensation & Benefits

Health Data Innovations, Inc.; Des Moines (IA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

OpenLoop is seeking a Director of Total Rewards to lead compensation, benefits, and equity across a fast-growing workforce. You will own day-to-day programs while designing scalable frameworks to carry OpenLoop through the next growth phase.

You’ll build, lead, and mentor the Total Rewards team, manage annual cycles, and ensure competitive, fair, and understandable programs for employees across subsidiaries and the pharmacy network.

Qualifications

• Experience leading total rewards across compensation and benefits at high-growth companies.
• Track record of developing and mentoring team members.
• Experience owning annual comp cycles and building/evolving job architecture, leveling and salary structures.
• Experience administering private-company equity.
• Working knowledge of benefits and pay compliance: ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, FLSA, and state pay transparency laws.
• Strong modeling skills in Excel or Google Sheets, plus experience with compensation survey data.

Responsibilities

• Own OpenLoop’s compensation programs end to end: job architecture, leveling, salary ranges, market pricing, and offer guidelines.
• Lead annual and off-cycle compensation cycles, including budget modeling, calibration support, manager tools, and enablement.
• Advise recruiters and leaders on offers with data-backed recommendations.
• Administer equity program guidelines and partner with Legal/Finance on pool sizing and dilution modeling.
• Explain total rewards value to employees and candidates with clear education and communication.
• Own benefits strategy and operations: medical, dental, vision, 401(k), leave, wellbeing.
• Lead renewals and open enrollment with brokers/carriers, balancing experience and cost.
• Manage benefits and rewards vendors and compliance with ERISA/ACA.

Skills

Total rewards

Team leadership

Job architecture

Salary structuring

Equity administration

Benefits compliance

Excel/Sheets

Survey data

Effective communication

Tools

Rippling

Workday

Ashby

Carta

Pave

Job description

OpenLoop is seeking a Director of Total Rewards to lead compensation, benefits, and equity across a fast-growing workforce. You will own day-to-day programs while designing scalable frameworks to carry OpenLoop through the next growth phase.

You’ll build, lead, and mentor the Total Rewards team, manage annual cycles, and ensure competitive, fair, and understandable programs for employees across subsidiaries and the pharmacy network.