Hiring: Director Global Benefits Company: Harvey Location: New York, United States Job Posted Time: 2026-09-03 14:50:30 Target Skills & Keywords : HIPAA, Workday About the job Experience: •10+ years in benefits, including 3+ years leading and developing a team, ideally in a high-growth technology company. Required Skills: •Harvey is scaling fast across headcount, geographies, and the complexity that comes with both. Our benefits and leave programs are now the daily, tangible experience of working here for employees in a dozen countries, and they need an owner who can lead them at that scale. •You'll report to our Head of Total Rewards and partner closely with People Operations, Payroll, Finance, Legal, and Recruiting. •Strategy and plan design •Define Harvey's global benefits and leave philosophy, including what "global consistency, local relevance" means as we enter new markets. •Lead plan design and redesign across the US and our international footprint (10+ markets and growing), balancing employee impact, competitiveness, and cost. •Build a program roadmap and business case for benefits, wellness, and leave, grounded in benchmarking and market analysis. •Grow and develop the global benefits team across the US and EMEA, setting priorities, raising the operating bar, and creating room for people to stretch. •Set and hold the standard for service delivery: response times, escalation, and follow-through on employee questions. Use AI and automation to take volume off the team without letting the experience get more distant. Qualifications: •Deep US benefits expertise across health and welfare plan design, 401(k), leave, and the compliance landscape (ERISA, ACA, COBRA, HIPAA, FMLA and state equivalents). •Real international experience: you've designed or administered benefits in EMEA and/or APAC and understand that statutory minimums are a floor, not a program. •Strategic and hands-on: You can present a plan-design recommendation to executives in the morning and untangle a Workday eligibility rule in the afternoon. •Vendor and broker management: You've run RFPs, negotiated renewals, and held partners accountable across a fragmented global vendor landscape. •Financial fluency: You can build and defend a benefits budget, model cost scenarios, and explain the tradeoffs plainly. •Exceptional communication: You translate complexity into clarity for employees, executives, and everyone in between. •Builder mentality. You're energized by ambiguity and by programs that don't exist yet. •AI experience. You’re using AI tools to streamline benefits work. We believe AI can meaningfully expand what a small benefits team can deliver, and we want someone who shares that belief. Compensation: •$227,100 - $310,000 / year Interested candidates, please apply directly through the job posting on company's career page or try via AI auto apply on this platform. Don't miss this opportunity to join a forward-thinking team!