À propos de ce poste Director, Benefits & Wellness chez Relativity Space
At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.
Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.
About the Team:
The People team is a core enabler of the business, with a true seat at the table and broad visibility across the company. From compensation and benefits to performance and onboarding, the team takes a comprehensive approach to supporting employees and leaders alike. We embed ourselves into departments, understanding needs and shaping the foundational strategies that will help individuals thrive as the company scales. Every challenge is an opportunity to solve for what really matters, with agility, empathy, and creativity.
About the Role:
Benefits Strategy & the Self-Insured Transition
- Lead the strategy, planning, and execution of the move from a fully insured to a self-insured medical plan, partnering with consultants, Finance, and Legal to evaluate financial exposure, plan design, claims projections, etc.
- Own the plan's ongoing financial and operational performance: claims monitoring, forecasting, utilization analysis, vendor performance, and early identification of cost and risk trends.
Benefits, Wellbeing & Perks Team
- Build wellbeing and perks programs with clear objectives and measures of success, and regularly evaluate utilization, cost, employee feedback, and market practice to decide where to invest, change course, or discontinue.
- Lead benefits communications and education so employees understand and use their programs.
Analytics & Financial Management
- Develop a comprehensive view of benefits performance and establish metrics that show costs and return on investment via financial models, scenario analyses, and business cases for significant decisions.
Lead the Leave, Accommodations & Workers' Compensation Team
- Oversee leave of absence, disability, accommodation, and workers' compensation programs, ensuring they're in compliance with internal policy and applicable laws.
About You:
- 5+ years of progressive benefits experience with significant ownership of health and welfare programs.
- Direct experience managing self-insured medical plans is required; leading or playing a major role in a fully insured–to–self-insured transition is strongly preferred.
- Strong analytical and financial skills, with hands-on experience analyzing medical and pharmacy claims, utilization, and healthcare trends, and building financial models and business cases in partnership with Finance.
- Strong command of plan design, stop-loss, TPAs, PBMs, consultants, and healthcare cost management, plus experience leading complex renewals, implementations, and vendor negotiations.
Nice to haves but not required:
- A hands-on leadership style, sound judgment balancing employee experience, compliance, and financial stewardship, and the ability to move between strategy and execution in a fast-paced environment.
- Experience directly managing a team and strong working knowledge ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA and ADA.
- Significant experience with leave, disability, accommodation, and workers' compensation programs, and with benefits across multiple populations or sites.
At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.
Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].
Please note: Relativity Space does not accept unsolicited resumes, candidate profiles, or referrals from recruitment agencies or search firms. Any unsolicited submission - via email, our website, social media, or directly to an employee - will be deemed the property of Relativity Space, and no fee will be owed absent a current, fully executed agreement with Talent Acquisition that specifically authorizes submissions for the applicable role.
