Senior Global Benefits Manager

Mixpanel-1; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 155,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and?al?

Generous Vacation Policy

Enhanced Parental Leave

Pre-Tax Benefits: 401(k), Wellness

Job summary

Mixpanel is seeking a Global Benefits Manager to own benefits programs across countries, govern design and delivery, and lead cross-functional initiatives. You will manage vendor relationships, ensure regulatory compliance, and drive cost optimization while leveraging AI tools to improve reporting and employee support.

This role sits in a fast-changing, multi-country environment and requires independent decision-making.

Qualifications

• Experience leading complex, cross-functional HR initiatives.
• Understanding of ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA and GDPR.
• Vendor/broker management including renewals.
• Ability to translate cost/utilization data into actionable recommendations.
• Willingness to adopt AI/tools to speed up work and share learnings.

Responsibilities

• Lead design and ongoing improvement of health, retirement, wellness, and leave programs across multiple countries.
• Scope and lead ambiguous cross-functional initiatives (country expansions, M&A integrations, plan redesigns).
• Own vendor and broker relationships globally, including renewals and SLAs.
• Serve as the go-to resource on benefits compliance (ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, GDPR).
• Analyze program cost and utilization data to inform budgeting and leadership recommendations.
• Build benefits education and self-service resources for employees.

Skills

Cross-functional leadership

Benefits governance

Vendor management

Data-driven decisions

AI tools adoption

Strong communication

Independent work

Multi-country experience

Education

Degree in human resources, business, finance, or related field

Tools

Paylocity

Bswift

Job description

Mixpanel is the leading product intelligence and analytics platform, trusted by more than 29,000 companies to help understand how people use the products they build. By combining powerful analytics with AI that knows your business, Mixpanel helps teams see what’s working, diagnose what’s not, and decide what to build next. Learn more at mixpanel.com .

About the Team

Our Total Rewards team designs and runs the benefits programs that support Mixpanel employees around the world. We work closely with People, Finance, Legal, and regional teams to build programs that are fair, competitive, and easy to understand, because how we take care of our people is part of how we build trust across the company.

About the Role

As our Global Benefits Manager, you’ll own how Mixpanel designs, delivers, and governs benefits programs across every country we operate in. You’ll work independently on ambiguous, cross-functional problems, like a new country launch, a plan redesign, or an M&A integration, and turn them into clear, workable plans. People across HR, Finance, Legal, and regional teams will look to you as the person who understands both the details and the bigger picture of how benefits decisions affect our people and our business. This role doesn’t manage people directly, but it does lead initiatives that span multiple functions and calls for confidence making decisions without a fully defined brief.

Responsibilities

• Lead the design and ongoing improvement of health, retirement, wellness, and leave programs across multiple countries, balancing local requirements with one consistent philosophy.
• Scope and lead ambiguous, cross-functional initiatives, such as country expansions, M&A integrations, and plan redesigns, by defining the problem, identifying the right stakeholders, and choosing an approach without a fully written brief.
• Own vendor and broker relationships globally, including renewal negotiations, and hold partners accountable to cost and service commitments.
• Serve as Mixpanel’s go-to resource on benefits compliance (ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, GDPR, and international equivalents), monitoring regulatory change and assessing its impact.
• Analyze program cost and utilization data to find savings and inform annual budgeting, then turn findings into clear recommendations for leadership.
• Build benefits education and self-service resources that make complex programs easy for employees to understand and use.
• Apply AI and other new tools where they meaningfully speed up reporting, analysis, or employee support, and share what works with the wider People team.

We’re Looking For Someone Who Has

• Led complex, ambiguous, cross-functional projects independently, not just executed a defined process, and can point to specific examples.
• A working understanding of benefits and employment compliance frameworks, including ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, and international equivalents like GDPR.
• Experience managing vendors, brokers, or carriers, including negotiating renewals and holding partners to service commitments.
• A track record of turning cost and utilization data into a recommendation others can act on.
• Comfort adopting new tools, including AI, to make existing work faster or better, and a habit of sharing what works with others.
• Strong written and verbal communication, with the ability to adjust tone for employees, partners, vendors, and senior leaders, especially when the news is complicated.
• Sound judgment operating with a high degree of independence in a fast-changing, multi-country environment.
• A degree in human resources, business, finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience.

Bonus Points For

• Experience with global benefits platforms such as Paylocity or Bswift.
• Relevant certifications, such as CEBS, PHR, or SHRM-CP.
• Experience supporting benefits through an M&A integration or new country entry.
• Familiarity building benefits programs in a high-growth, distributed company.

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Compensation

The amount listed below is the total target cash compensation (TTCC) and includes base compensation and variable compensation in the form of either a company bonus or commissions. Variable compensation type is determined by your role and level. In addition to the cash compensation provided, this position is also eligible for equity consideration and other benefits including medical, vision, and dental insurance coverage. You can view our benefits offerings here. Our salary ranges are determined by role and level and are benchmarked to the SF Bay Area Technology data cut released by Radford, a global compensation database. The range displayed represents the minimum and maximum TTCC for new hire salaries for the position across all of our US locations. To stay on top of market conditions, we refresh our salary ranges twice a year so these ranges may change in the future. Within the range, individual pay is determined by experience, job-related skills, qualifications, and other factors. If you have questions about the specific range, your recruiter can share this information.

$154,500 - $209,500 USD

Benefits and Perks

• Comprehensive Medical, Vision, and Dental Care
• Generous Vacation Policy & Additional Company Holidays
• Enhanced Parental Leave
• Additional US Benefits: Pre-Tax Benefits including 401(K), Wellness Benefit, Holiday Break

*please note that benefits and perks for contract positions will vary*

Culture Values

• Make Bold Bets: We choose courageous action over comfortable progress.
• Innovate with Insight: We tackle decisions with rigor and judgment - combining data, experience and collective wisdom to drivepowerful outcomes.
• One Team: We collaborate across boundaries to achieve far greater impact than any of us could accomplish alone.
• Candor with Connection: We build meaningful relationships that enable honest feedback and direct conversations.
• Champion the Customer: We seek to deeply understand our customers’ needs, ensuring their success is our north star.
• Powerful Simplicity: We find elegant solutions to complex problems, making sophisticated things accessible.

Why choose Mixpanel?

We’re a leader in analytics with over 9,000 customers and $277M invested from prominent investors: like Andreessen-Horowitz, Sequoia, YC, and, most recently, Bain Capital. Mixpanel’s pioneering event-based data analytics platform offers a powerful yet simple solution for companies to understand user behaviors and easily track overarching company success metrics. Our accomplished teams continuously facilitate our expansion by tackling the ever-evolving challenges tied to scaling, reliability, design, and service. Choosing to work at Mixpanel means you’ll be helping the world’s most innovative companies learn from their data so they can make better decisions.

Mixpanel is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity. At Mixpanel, we are focused on things that really matter—our people, our customers, our partners—out of a recognition that those relationships are the most valuable assets we have. We actively encourage women, people with disabilities, veterans, underrepresented minorities, and LGBTQ+ people to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance or other similar laws that may be applicable, we will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records. We’ve immersed ourselves in our Culture and Values as our guiding principles for the impact we want to have and the future we are building.