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Salary: USD 206,400 - 234,520 / annual
Treeline Biosciences is seeking a Director of Total Rewards & HRIS to build and scale compensation, benefits, and HR systems infrastructure for a growing biotech organization. This is a hands-on strategic role combining execution and partnership with senior leadership.
Key Responsibilities:
Compensation & Total Rewards Strategy:
- Partner with senior leadership to design and maintain compensation philosophy, pay structures, and job leveling frameworks across research, clinical, and corporate functions
- Lead annual compensation benchmarking using industry-standard biotech/life sciences surveys (e.g., Radford Global Life Sciences Survey)
- Prepare executive compensation analyses and materials for the Board Compensation Committee in partnership with Finance
- Conduct regular pay equity audits and propose solutions to address identified gaps
- Manage annual merit cycles and off-cycle compensation review processes
- Review and recommend compensation for new hire offers to ensure alignment with pay bands and internal equity
- Benchmark benefits programs against biotech/life sciences market data and manage statutory compliance across jurisdictions
- Own the annual benefits renewal process, including carrier/plan evaluation, rate negotiation, and open enrollment execution
- Manage relationships with benefits brokers and vendors, including contract negotiations
- Support administration and oversight of the company's 401(k) program
- Serve as escalation point for employee benefits issues and leave-related matters (short-term/long-term disability, FMLA, etc.)
HRIS & People Data:
- Own administration of the company's core HRIS platform, ensuring it scales for multi-country compliance and reporting
- Manage onboarding and offboarding processes within HRIS and related systems
- Ensure accuracy and consistency of employee records across systems, including data feeding into financial and SEC disclosures
- Build reporting and dashboards to support headcount planning, attrition analysis, and compensation modeling for leadership and the Board
- Serve as internal systems expert, managing integrations between HRIS, benefits, and other people systems
- Ensure I-9 and work authorization documentation is complete, accurate, and audit-ready
Compliance & Public Company Readiness:
- Support preparation of compensation-related disclosures for SEC filings
- Maintain audit-ready documentation to support SOX internal controls testing related to compensation and benefits data
- Monitor pay equity, pay transparency, and pay data reporting obligations applicable to a public company
- Monitor multi-country pay and benefits compliance requirements, partnering with EOR/PEO providers and outside counsel as needed
- Serve as key HR point person for compliance reviews and due diligence workstreams
Requirements:
- 8+ years of progressive experience in compensation, benefits, and/or HRIS, including at least 3+ years in a total rewards leadership capacity
- Prior experience at a biotech, pharma, or life sciences company
- Working knowledge of equity compensation programs (options/RSUs) and how they factor into total rewards benchmarking
- Hands-on experience implementing or administering an HRIS platform (e.g., ADP)
- Demonstrated experience preparing compensation materials for board/comp committee audiences
- Excellent analytical skills with high attention to detail; advanced Excel skills for compensation analysis and benchmarking
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to translate complex compensation and benefits concepts for employees, managers, and executive audiences
- High degree of discretion and sound judgment in handling confidential and sensitive employee data
- Strong project management skills, with ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams (merit cycle, open enrollment, HRIS projects, audits)
- Ability to thrive in a small, lean HR team — comfortable driving execution independently while partnering closely with senior leadership on strategy
