Director, Total Rewards & HRIS
Quick Summary
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,
About the Role
~1 min readWe are seeking a Director, Total Rewards & HRIS to help build and run the compensation, benefits, and HR systems infrastructure for our growing biotech organization. In this role, you will help shape our compensation philosophy and pay equity practices, implement and maintain our core HR systems, and ensure our people data and rewards programs are well-documented and audit-ready.
This role is ideal for someone who thrives on a team where they'll do hands-on execution as well as strategic partnership, and wants their work to directly influence how the company evaluates and rewards its people as we scale.
Responsibilities
~1 min readWhat We Offer
~1 min read- Own administration of the company's core HRIS platform, ensuring it scales for multi-country compliance and reporting needs
- Manage onboarding and offboarding processes within the HRIS and related systems, ensuring new hires and departing employees are accurately and promptly reflected across HR, benefits, and payroll-adjacent platforms
- Ensure accuracy and consistency of employee records across systems, including data that feeds 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 the internal systems expert, managing integrations between HRIS, benefits, and other people systems
- Ensure I-9 and work authorization documentation is complete, accurate, and organized for audit purposes
- 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, and help ensure the company stays ahead of them
- Monitor multi-country pay and benefits compliance requirements, partnering with EOR/PEO providers and outside counsel as needed
- Serve as a key HR point person for compliance reviews or other due diligence workstreams as needed
- 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 the 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 the ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams (e.g., 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
This position is classified as exempt. The anticipated annual base salary range for candidates who will work in Watertown is $206,400 - $234,520. The final base salary offered to the successful candidate will be dependent upon several factors that may include but are not limited to the type and length of experience within the job, and other factors. Treeline Biosciences is a multi-state employer, and this salary range may not reflect positions that work in other cities or states.
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The Human Resources team manages the recruitment and employment process for Treeline Biosciences. To protect the interests of all parties involved, Treeline Biosciences will only accept resumes from a recruiter if an executed search agreement directed to the particular position or positions is in place at the start of the recruitment effort. Unsolicited resumes sent to Treeline Biosciences from recruiters do not constitute any type of relationship between the recruiter and Treeline Biosciences and do not obligate Treeline Biosciences in any way to pay fees should we hire from those resumes. Recruiters are requested not to contact or present candidates directly to our hiring manager or employees.
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Listing Details
- Posted
- September 14, 2026
- First seen
- September 15, 2026
- Last seen
- September 15, 2026
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- 0
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- Trust Level
- 71%
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- September 15, 2026
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