GumGum is nothing without its people! Our People Operations team partners with our leaders, managers and employees to develop strategies that enhance our innovative culture and overall employee experience. From hiring outstanding talent to ensuring that GumGummers find their work motivating, engaging and fulfilling, the People Ops department always strives to create a high-performance, creative and inclusive environment across our global offices.
The Total Rewards Analyst is responsible for many important aspects of GumGum’s Human Resource function and approach to total rewards. This encompasses responsibilities across benefits, perks, compensation and HRIS administration/reporting. This role contributes to the continued implementation of the HR infrastructure project to scale our people strategy and solutions: from benefits/perks management to compensation management to developing and delivering necessary HR policies and programs which support a global team. This role reports to the Director, People Operations. While this role typically sits in our Santa Monica HQ, we are flexible on location. 

Responsibilities

• Total Rewards Planning
  • Contribute to ongoing total rewards strategy to support and sustain a high performing culture that attracts, motivates, retains and rewards
  • Provide data analysis and ROI on total rewards plan

• Compensation Planning
  • Serve as the main point of contact and internal partner for compensation benchmarking process, market survey submissions and resulting data analysis
  • Identify opportunities to leverage data and analytics to better inform business decisions and assess plan or program effectiveness
  • Manage compensation market benchmarking requests 
  • Utilize market data and internal ranges and tools to evaluate requests and provide recommendations
  • Review compensation for job requisitions, job offers, transfers, promotions, and salary increases
  • Operationalize compensation program by updating HR systems and creating/maintaining tools
  • Lead the annual compensation review process in ADP and work closely with team members on communications, timelines and deliverables 
  • Serve as a liaison to the Payroll Manager on all compensation changes and other related issues
• Benefits/Perks Management & Administration
  • Contribute to the domestic and international benefits/perks plan and strategy for GumGum 
  • Serve as the main point of contact for all team members on  benefits & perks questions. Ensure timely response and resolution to questions and issues. 
  • Track and process new hire benefits & perks eligibility and status changes
  • Process life event changes and termination of coverage
  • Manage the COBRA process
  • Manage monthly benefit invoicing and auditing to ensure reconciliation with payroll billing. Follows up on billing issues and employee deduction discrepancies
  • Serve as the project manager for the annual open enrollment process from beginning-to-end, including timelines, communication meetings, and partnering with third party administrators to support any plan changes
  • Keep a pulse on benefits trends & offerings. Research offerings and subsequently create and present benefits comparisons
  • Ensure compliance with applicable employment laws and regulations that could impact the benefits/perks strategy
  • Lead and manage domestic and international leave of absences requests, processes, strategy and ensure compliance
  • Manage all worker compensation policies and claims

• Compliance
  • Contribute HR policy development and documentation inline with GumGum’s mission/vision while managing compliance risk
  • Remain up to date on local & international employment legislation/ compliance and recommended best practices

• HRIS (ADP), Reporting & Data Management
  • Become ‘super user’ of the HRIS (ADP) to effectively run reports, extract data and maintain operational efficiency
  • Execute on ADP data management, reporting, audit, calculation, and controls
  • Perform HRIS administration tasks, including user setup/access, workflows, task builds and updates, data maintenance and configuration updates
  • Provide end user and practitioner support and resources, including basic troubleshooting, system function/release communication, and development and maintenance of user documentation
  • Research, resolve, and document data discrepancies
  • Prepare, modify, and distribute reports 
  • Setup and maintain foundational hierarchy and structures for organizations and jobs
  • Create systems administration documentation and user guides on an ongoing basis

• Other responsibilities as assigned

Education

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience

Experience

• At least 6 years of experience in Human Resources analytics, systems, benefits/perks and compensation management
• Some experience using compensation benchmarking tools (e.g., Radford, Payfactors)
• Experience building people-related reports & summaries utilizing people analytics and metrics
• Experience researching and administering a benefits & perks program

Skills 

• Analytically driven with strong execution skills to drive solutions to completion; excellent attention to detail
• An innovative problem solver who is proactive and loves to get things done
• Strong interpersonal skills, good intuition, and the ability to communicate to all levels of the organization
• Ability to prioritize workload, balance multiple tasks at once, and solid attention to detail
• Ability to plan and anticipate issues and delays before critical deadlines are due
• Understanding of the intersection of compensation, benefits, perks and other offerings (e.g., LOA, paid time off) as part of a Total Rewards package
• Proficiency in Google applications specifically with Sheets, Slides, and Docs

Personal Attributes

• Ability to thrive in an exceptionally fast-paced environment
• Demonstrates orientation to continuous improvement and critical thinking
• Possess a client service approach and focus 
• Strong sense of accountability
• Driven and self motivated
• A problem solver and can work autonomously
• Resourceful: able to research potential solutions and overcome obstacles to get projects to the finish line

Benefits & Perks

• Competitive health, vision and dental benefits
• Healthcare and dependent care FSA
• Stock incentive program 
• Paid parental leave
• Discounted Pet Health Program
• Flexible time off and work schedule
• Commuter perks
• Stocked kitchen 
• Dog-friendly HQ office - we love our fur babies!
• Incredible work/life balance with a collaborative and friendly work space
• GumGum Gives Back volunteering opportunities

Career & Development Focus 

• Ongoing learning and development for education opportunities such as webinars, books, classes, relevant conferences and events
• Opportunities to pursue business related side projects and yearly Hackathon
• Highly encouraged to contribute to open source software, including our own open source software
• Environment of learning from peers, including meetups, presentations and blog posts
• Opportunity to work with cutting edge technology
• Life Skills sessions - geared towards the whole life/ health / person
• Leadership Bites Dinner Series - connecting current and future GumGum leaders over great food and meaningful conversation
• Women of GumGum - a community of women across our global organization aimed at empowering one another
  

*Please note that we are not currently accepting candidates from recruiting agencies or 3rd parties.* 

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Our Values…

Be Thoughtful 

We listen to understand different perspectives, show everyone respect, and relentlessly seek solutions for our clients (internal and external).

Have Agility

We are quick, nimble, and change direction gracefully, while maintaining control.

Show Grit

We bring energy and perseverance to everything we do.

Our Team… 

At GumGum, we innovate. Our two divisions, Advertising and Sports, are powered by expansive, sophisticated AI-driven marketing and analytics solutions. Our vision is clear: We want to use our proprietary technology to solve the hard problems across the media industry. As a company, we celebrate kindness, resilience, the courage to think outside the box and the importance of having fun. All of our internal operations and decisions are undertaken with complete transparency, with a highly accessible executive, leadership team. For GumGummers, we believe in providing all the necessary tools, resources and guidance needed for them to excel. And, they do excel. 

Our Tech…

GumGum is constantly evolving to be at the forefront of computer vision and machine learning advancements. With nearly 10 years experience, we use our proprietary image recognition technology to deliver highly engaging, contextually relevant ad experiences across premium publishers all over the world. 

Our Products & Services…

Our Advertising business serves contextual marketing messages in line with content users are actively engaged with. 

Our Sports business helps marketers and rights holders understand the full media value of their sponsorship investments across broadcast and social media. And we deliver on brand safety by leveraging our AI to detect unsafe text and imagery, allowing us to deliver ads in brand safe, contextually relevant environments.

Our Hackathons…

What’s a Hackathon? We’re glad you asked. Our employees split into teams and spend 48 hours ‘hacking’ together before presenting their ideas to our executive team. It’s a chance for anyone within our company to showcase the visions they want to bring to fruition.

Our Culture…

GumGum recently earned LA’s Best Places to Work Award 2020 and Inc. Magazine’s Best Places to work in 2020, and it’s no surprise why. With company-sponsored social hours, annual holiday celebrations and on-site gatherings, GumGummers enjoy a fun, creative and collaborative workplace. We pride ourselves on our strong track record of giving employees the autonomy and support they need to succeed.  

Oh, and doggies…

We love our dogs so much, we even have an Instagram dedicated to them! Follow us: @dogsofgumgum

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