US Benefits Architect for High-Growth AI Scale

Nscale; Seattle (WA); On-site; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Flexible paid time off

Parental leave

Retirement plan participation

Equity and bonus opportunities

Job summary

Nscale is growing rapidly and seeks a US Benefits Manager to build and scale our US benefits offering during a period of substantial expansion. You will be the US benefits SME, providing market insight, program expertise, and recommendations to support a continued strategy.

Your focus includes governance, renewal management, and continuous improvement across health, retirement, leave, and wellbeing programs, with collaboration across brokers, Finance, and HRIS.

Qualifications

• Significant experience managing US employee benefits programs in a high-growth, multi-state organization.
• Deep knowledge of ACA, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, Section 125, FMLA, and state leave requirements.
• Experience leading benefits renewals, market benchmarking, and recommending plan design changes.
• Strong experience working with brokers, carriers, and third-party benefits providers.
• Strong analytical skills using benefits and financial data to develop insights and recommendations.

Responsibilities

• Lead the performance and ongoing evolution of US health and welfare, retirement, leave, and wellbeing programs.
• Provide US market expertise, benchmarking, and recommendations to inform benefits strategy and plan design.
• Analyze utilization, employee feedback, costs, and market trends to identify opportunities for improvement.
• Develop recommendations and business cases for program enhancements.
• Act as a US benefits subject-matter expert across the business.
• Lead the US renewal cycle in partnership with the Global Senior Benefits Manager, broker, and Finance.
• Analyze renewal proposals, claims, utilization, market data, and cost projections.
• Develop options and recommendations to support renewal and plan design decisions.
• Lead implementation of approved program changes.
• Oversee Open Enrollment planning and readiness, with day-to-day administration and employee support delivered by the Senior Benefits Coordinator.
• Lead operational governance of US brokers, carriers, and benefits providers.
• Monitor service levels, performance, and program effectiveness.
• Hold providers accountable for service delivery and continuous improvement.
• Support vendor evaluation, selection, implementation, and transition activities.
• Provide US expertise to support leave strategy, policy, and program design.
• Oversee US leave program effectiveness and external administrator performance.
• Maintain oversight of US benefits compliance, including ACA, ERISA, COBRA, HIPAA, Section 125, FMLA, and applicable state requirements.
• Monitor legislative developments and recommend required program or process changes.
• Identify and manage benefits compliance and operational risks.
• Define and monitor key measures of US benefits performance.
• Analyze program costs, utilization, participation, and employee experience.
• Translate data into meaningful insights and recommendations.
• Partner with the Global Senior Benefits Manager and Finance on budgeting, forecasting, and cost optimization.
• Develop financial models for proposed program changes.
• Lead the ongoing optimization of our benefits admin platform and other US benefits technology.
• Identify opportunities for automation, self-service, and improved efficiency.
• Partner with HRIS, Payroll, and vendors to improve integrations and data flows.
• Lead significant benefits implementations and process improvement initiatives.
• Build scalable processes and controls to support rapid US growth.
• Assess the benefits implications of US workforce growth and recommend changes required to support scale.
• Provide US benefits expertise for M&A due diligence and integration.
• Lead agreed US benefits integration workstreams.
• Partner with People, Finance, Legal, Payroll, and other stakeholders on significant business changes.

Skills

US benefits expertise

Benefits data analysis

Stakeholder management

Project leadership

Tools

HRIS platforms

Payroll integration tools

Job description

Nscale is growing rapidly and seeks a US Benefits Manager to build and scale our US benefits offering during a period of substantial expansion. You will be the US benefits SME, providing market insight, program expertise, and recommendations to support a continued strategy.

Your focus includes governance, renewal management, and continuous improvement across health, retirement, leave, and wellbeing programs, with collaboration across brokers, Finance, and HRIS.