About Ethos
Ethos is a leading life insurance technology company on a mission to protect families by democratizing access to life insurance and empowering agents at scale. With its robust three-sided technology platform, Ethos is transforming the life insurance experience for consumers, agents, and carriers alike. Ethos offers instant, accessible products and a seamless online process that requires no medical exams and just a few health questions; it eliminates traditional barriers, making it easier than ever for everyone to protect their families. Ethos is redefining how life insurance is bought, sold, and underwritten.
About the role
Ethos seeks an exceptional, hands-on leader to define the vision and guide our global equity programs into their next phase. You will strategize for continued growth globally, operating with significant autonomy and setting goals that focus on long-term scalability. This role is accountable for all equity aspects, including data integrity and scaling systems and processes. You will develop and manage the equity administration team and report to the Head of Total Rewards.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Lead the Stock Admin function autonomously defining its scope, vision, and challenging goals in alignment with overall company and talent strategy
- Oversee and inspire a globally distributed team, primarily working through and with others to accomplish work and ensure their success with clear guidance, direction, and coaching
- Determine and own the operating model for the Stock Admin team, including vendor strategy, with a strong emphasis on enhancing the user (employee) experience and creating global, scalable playbooks to prevent single points of failure
- Proactively identify and optimize global equity policies and processes, anticipating industry trends and potential long-term issues before they become crises, and building solutions for long-term growth and scalability
- Serve as a trusted internal advisor, seeing problems others don't, rallying teams to create solutions, and providing deep subject matter expertise to navigate complex equity situations and compliance obligations
- Lead complex cross-functional collaborations with key internal partners (Legal, Corporate Tax, Accounting, Finance, Investor Relations, Payroll, Recruiting, People Partners, Benefits, Compensation), influencing and getting other teams on board with the team's vision to design and implement global equity processes and program enhancements
- Ensure global tax compliance for applicable employees by actively partnering with the tax team on global reporting and anticip