Hybrid Global Benefits Specialist

at Palantir Technologies

• Job title: Global Benefits Specialist
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Junior, Mid level
• Salary: $75,000 - $103,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Washington, D C, United States

About the role

• Global Benefits Specialist responsible for benefit administration and compliance at Palantir. Supporting Palantirians in navigating benefits and managing vendor relationships with a focus on compliance.

Responsibilities

• Act as a first point of contact and ongoing resource for employee questions, including healthcare, dental, vision, life and disability insurance, commuter, and wellbeing benefit enrollments/changes, and eligibility.
• Manage benefit operations and benefit compliance for US plans, including enrollments, files, invoicing, vendor management, compliance reporting and employee experience across multiple populations of in-office and remote employees.
• Support benefit renewals (census files, employee outreach and vendor communication, enrollments, file feeds etc.).
• Manage point solutions and vendor relationships, plus employee questions and stakeholder communication.
• Cultivate and manage relationships with carriers and cross-functional partners (Payroll, Mobility, etc.) to ensure delivery of high quality and legally compliant programs.

Requirements

• 2-3+ years experience in US Benefits Administration and Compliance.
• Ability to demonstrate strong intuition and empathy when interfacing with employees and designing solutions to people-focused challenges.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills; able to provide high-quality support to employees with empathy.
• Attention to detail, operational excellence, and ability to balance competing priorities; comfortable navigating between a high volume of inbound requests, while driving forward projects.
• Ability to operate both independently and collaboratively, handle ambiguity, and tackle open-ended problems.
• Ability to give/accept feedback and iterate on programs to enhance employee experience.
• Comfortable supporting a global population in multiple time zones, working through email, messaging, and video conferencing where needed.
• HRIS/Benefit administration experience in Workday.

Benefits

• Employees (and their eligible dependents) can enroll in medical, dental, and vision insurance as well as voluntary life insurance
• Employees are automatically covered by Palantir’s basic life, AD&D and disability insurance
• Commuter benefits
• Take what you need paid time off, not accrual based
• 2 weeks paid time off built into the end of each year (subject to team and business needs)
• 10 paid holidays throughout the calendar year
• Supportive leave of absence program including time off for military service and medical events
• Paid leave for new parents and subsidized back-up care for all parents
• Fertility and family building benefits including but not limited to adoption, surrogacy, and preservation
• Stipend to help with expenses that come with a new child
• Employees can enroll in Palantir’s 401k plan