Senior Manager, Global Benefits

About Rippling

Rippling gives businesses one place to run HR, IT, and Finance. It brings together all of the workforce systems that are normally scattered across a company, like payroll, expenses, benefits, and computers. For the first time ever, you can manage and automate every part of the employee lifecycle in a single system.

Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can hire a new employee anywhere in the world and set up their payroll, corporate card, computer, benefits, and even third-party apps like Slack and Microsoft 365—all within 90 seconds.

Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $1.4B+ from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, Greenoaks, and Bedrock—and was named one of America's best startup employers by Forbes.

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About the role

Benefits are a core component of the EOR service, encompassing medical, ancillary, workers’ compensation, pension, and other country-specific benefit programs that support employees around the world. The Senior Manager, Global Benefits will lead Rippling EOR’s global benefits function, managing a team of Global Benefits Managers responsible for the end-to-end lifecycle of country-level benefits programs. This includes benefits strategy, plan design, renewals, pricing, vendor management, system configuration, and issue resolution, ensuring programs are effectively designed, implemented, and maintained across the global portfolio.

This is a senior leadership role that requires operating at both strategic and executional levels: setting the vision for how Rippling's benefits offerings compete globally, while also rolling up sleeves to drive complex multi-country renewals, broker negotiations, and cross-functional product launches. The Senior Manager partners directly with Operations, Sales, Product, Engineering, Payroll, Finance, and Legal to ensure benefits programs are accurate, compliant, scalable, cost-effective, and well-supported in the Rippling platform.

What is an Employer of Record (EOR)?

An Employer of Record (EOR) is a service provider that allows companies to legally hire and work with employees in foreign countries without establishing their own legal entity in that country. This is made possible through a legal arrangement where the EOR establishes its own legal entity in the country and hires employees on behalf of the client company. This arrangement offers a viable solution for companies that wish to expand their global reach without investing in setting up a legal entity in every country where they operate.

What you will do

• Strategy & Leadership
• • Define and execute Rippling's global EOR benefits strategy across 40+ countries, ensuring offerings are competitive, compliant, and cost-effective relative to market and competitors
  • Lead, mentor, and develop a team of Global Benefits Managers, setting priorities, managing performance, and ensuring coverage across all country portfolios
  • Drive the annual and multi-year benefits roadmap, including new country launches, plan enhancements, carrier consolidation, and cost optimization initiatives
  • Serve as the escalation point for complex benefits issues, incidents, and cross-functional decisions
• Renewals & Vendor Management
• • Own the global renewal calendar and ensure all country renewals are executed on time, within budget, and with minimal disruption to customers and employees
  • Manage strategic broker and carrier relationships (e.g., Allianz, Sterling, Lockton, local market carriers), including contract negotiations, performance management, and relationship development
  • Lead complex, multi-geo renewals involving 40+ countries simultaneously, coordinating across brokers, engineering, product, and operations
  • Evaluate and onboard new carriers and brokers to improve coverage, reduce cost, or expand into new markets
• Operations & Cross-Functional Partnership
• • Partner with Product and Engineering on benefits system design, configuration, automation, and new country launches to ensure ben