Global Head of Benefits

DataDirect Networks; New York (NY); On-site; USD 150,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical/dental/vision

Tuition reimbursement

Employee referral program

Bonus programs

Paid holidays

Paid leave programs

Vacation plans

Anniversary & recognition awards

Job summary

DataDirect Networks is seeking a Head of Global Benefits to architect and lead our worldwide benefits strategy. You will manage health, retirement, leave, insurance, and wellbeing programs across our global population, ensuring cost effectiveness and compliance while upholding our core philosophy of employee experience and simplicity.

You’ll oversee renewals, enrollments, and partnerships with brokers and carriers, working closely with HR, Finance, Legal, Payroll, and regional teams to deliver

Qualifications

• Significant experience leading benefits in a global, multi-country organization.
• 2+ years managing small, global teams responsible for multi-country benefit execution.
• Deep knowledge of U.S. benefits and meaningful international program design/management experience.
• Experience with multiple entities, EORs, and diverse local employment structures.
• Strong governance, compliance, renewals, plan design, and vendor/broker management knowledge.
• Ability to evaluate benefits through employee experience and financial lens.
• Comfortable moving between strategy and execution; hands-on when needed.
• Strong analytical skills to turn messy data into clear recommendations.
• Excellent cross-functional judgment to work with Finance, Legal, Payroll, HRBPs, and senior leaders.
• Low-ego approach; balance global consistency with local nuance.

Responsibilities

• Build our global benefits strategy and framework for global consistency while reflecting local markets.
• Lead design, implementation, renewals, and ongoing management of health, retirement, leave, insurance, and wellbeing programs.
• Oversee annual renewals, vendor changes, and enrollment processes with cost-conscious strategies.
• Ensure compliance with local requirements and alignment with broader benefits philosophy.
• Navigate multi-country execution across entities and EOR populations; simplify processes.
• Partner with HR leaders, Finance, Legal, and regional teams to steer the benefits roadmap.
• Drive improvements in benefits workflows, data systems, and communications.
• Manage relationships with brokers, carriers, and benefit vendors; monitor spend and outcomes.

Skills

global benefits leadership

vendor management

data-driven decision making

cross-functional collaboration

analytical skills

strategy to execution

Job description

We are on our way to being the first company to power 1 MILLION GPUs and want world-class talent to join our amazing team!

The world is moving faster than ever, and yet, it will never move this slowly again. We are at the forefront of an incredible technological revolution but, at its core, it is fueled by incredible people. People like you.

1,000 Global Employees

11k Happy Customers

16 International Offices

We’re Looking for the Best and Brightest

We are the world’s leading data intelligence platform that reliably accelerates massive datasets for actionable real-time insights. Join our team to help the best and brightest minds tackle the world’s biggest challenges in business, science, medicine, academia and government.

Do What Can’t be Done

For the past 20 years, our team has kept us at the forefront of storage technology and has provided the foundation for enabling researchers to push the limits of “what can be done.”
These innovations take research and discovery to the next level, enabling them to discover cures to disease, observe global warming patterns, model innovative automotive and aerospace designs, discover new sources of energy, make communities safer, and accelerate business results across a wide variety of industries.

DDN Helps Build Your Future, Too

At DDN, we understand our customers’ diverse needs. Whether you’re a data scientist, IT professional, executive, or researcher, our solutions empower you with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled support.

Highly Competitive Vacation Plans

Paid Holidays

Bonus Programs

Tuition Reimbursement

Employee Referral Program

Excellent Medical, Dental and Vision Benefits

Paid Leave Programs

Anniversary and Recognition Awards

Global Head of Benefits

Location

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

Hybrid

Department G&A People Human Resources

DDN is in an extraordinary moment. We’ve spent more than two decades building technology that powers some of the world’s most demanding computing environments. Today, we’re at the center of the AI infrastructure boom, our business is experiencing tremendous scale—and our People infrastructure needs to move just as fast.

We’re looking for a Head of Global Benefits to build an intentional, scalable approach to benefits globally — one that balances employee experience, market competitiveness, cost, compliance, and the realities of operating across many different countries. This role is critical in delivering value to our people and to helping make DDN an employer of choice for all.

This is a role for someone who likes both building the strategy and doing the work. You’ll set the direction for how DDN approaches benefits globally, while getting into the details of plan design, renewals, vendors, employee issues, and implementation. You’ll inherit a decentralized environment and have the opportunity to make it simpler, stronger, and more consistent.

What You’ll Own

Build our global benefits strategy

Develop a clear global benefits philosophy and framework, defining where we want consistency globally and where programs should reflect local markets.

Assess our existing programs across countries and identify opportunities to improve competitiveness, employee experience, cost effectiveness, and operational simplicity.

Establish market benchmarks and principles for evaluating benefit changes and investments.

Partner with People leadership and Finance on our longer-term benefits roadmap and investment priorities.

Lead benefits across our global footprint

Own the design, implementation, and ongoing management of health, retirement, leave, insurance, wellbeing, and other benefit programs across DDN’s global population.

Lead annual renewals and enrollment processes, including recommendations on plan design, employee contributions, and vendor changes.

Ensure programs remain compliant with local requirements while meeting DDN’s broader benefits philosophy.

Navigate the complexity of benefits across entities, EOR populations, and different employment models.

Make the experience better — and simpler

Create clearer, more consistent processes for how benefits are administered and communicated around the world.

Partner with a newly formed HR Operations team to improve benefits workflows, data, systems, and integrations.

Make it easier for employees and managers to understand what DDN offers and where to go when they need help.

Identify opportunities to automate or eliminate manual work and reduce unnecessary regional complexity.

Manage our partners and our spend

Own relationships with global and local brokers, consultants, carriers, and benefits vendors.

Lead vendor selection, negotiation, implementation, and performance management.

Develop strong visibility into benefits spend globally and partner with Finance on forecasting and budgeting.

Use data — utilization, employee feedback, market benchmarks, and cost trends — to evaluate whether our programs are actually delivering value.

Be a trusted partner

Partner closely with HRBPs, HR Operations, Payroll, Finance, Legal, and regional People teams.

Provide practical guidance on complex benefits and leave questions, including situations where there may not be an obvious playbook.

Bring a global perspective while understanding that the right answer in California, Germany, India, or Japan won't always be the same.

Help DDN build the infrastructure and operating discipline we need as we continue to scale.

Oversee a small but nimble team responsible for global exeucution

What We’re Looking For

Significant experience leading benefits in a global, multi-country organization, ideally in a fast-growing technology environment.

2+ Years managing small, global teams responsible for multi-country benefit execution

Deep knowledge of U.S. benefits combined with meaningful experience designing and managing programs internationally, ideally across Europe, the Middle East and across Asia.

Experience working across a mix of entities, EORs, and different local employment structures.

Strong understanding of benefits governance, compliance, renewals, plan design, and vendor/broker management.

Experience evaluating benefits through both an employee experience and financial lens.

Comfortable moving between strategy and execution. This is not a role where someone else does all the implementation.

Strong analytical skills and the ability to turn messy data and competing inputs into clear recommendations.

Excellent cross-functional judgment and the ability to work effectively with Finance, Legal, Payroll, HRBPs, and senior leaders.

A practical, low-ego approach. You know when global consistency matters, when local nuance matters, and when something simply doesn't need to be as complicated as it currently is.

What Success Looks Like

In your first few months, you’ll have created a clear picture of DDN’s global benefits landscape and established a thoughtful roadmap for where we go next. After year one, benefits will start to feel less like a collection of country-by-country programs and more like a global function with clear principles, strong local execution, and an employee experience that can scale with DDN. Further, you’ll have clear understanding of market norms, risks, the competitive landscape, and where our biggest opportunities lie.

Compensation Range: $150K - $215K

We pride ourselves on our commitment to delivering tangible and consistent results.

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