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Senior Director of Total Rewards & Compensation

natera
San Carlos, CA Full Time
POSTED ON 4/18/2025
AVAILABLE BEFORE 6/18/2025

The Senior Director of Total Rewards & Compensation will lead the strategic design, implementation, and management of Natera's global compensation and benefits programs. This role ensures that our total rewards offerings are competitive, equitable, and aligned with the company's objectives to attract, retain, and motivate top talent. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in total rewards management within a dynamic, high-growth environment, ideally with a public company background.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Strategic Leadership:
    • Develop and execute a comprehensive total rewards strategy that supports Natera's business goals and enhances employee engagement.
    • Serve as a strategic advisor to senior leadership on compensation and benefits matters.
  • Compensation Management:
    • Design and oversee competitive compensation programs, including base pay structures, short- and long-term incentives, executive compensation, and equity compensation.
    • Conduct regular market analyses to ensure pay practices remain competitive and equitable.
    • Ensure compliance with all legal and regulatory requirements related to compensation.
  • Benefits Administration:
    • Manage comprehensive benefits programs, including health and welfare plans, retirement plans, and wellness initiatives.
    • Evaluate and enhance benefits offerings to meet the evolving needs of employees.
    • Oversee relationships with benefits vendors and brokers to ensure cost-effective and high-quality service delivery.
  • Compliance and Governance:
    • Ensure all total rewards programs comply with federal, state, and local regulations.

The pay range is listed and actual compensation packages are based on a wide array of factors unique to each candidate, including but not limited to skill set, years & depth of experience, certifications and specific office location. This may differ in other locations due to cost of labor considerations.

San Carlos, CA

$230,000 - $280,000 USD

OUR OPPORTUNITY

Natera™ is a global leader in cell-free DNA (cfDNA) testing, dedicated to oncology, women’s health, and organ health. Our aim is to make personalized genetic testing and diagnostics part of the standard of care to protect health and enable earlier and more targeted interventions that lead to longer, healthier lives.

The Natera team consists of highly dedicated statisticians, geneticists, doctors, laboratory scientists, business professionals, software engineers and many other professionals from world-class institutions, who care deeply for our work and each other. When you join Natera, you’ll work hard and grow quickly. Working alongside the elite of the industry, you’ll be stretched and challenged, and take pride in being part of a company that is changing the landscape of genetic disease management.

WHAT WE OFFER

Competitive Benefits - Employee benefits include comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life and disability plans for eligible employees and their dependents. Additionally, Natera employees and their immediate families receive free testing in addition to fertility care benefits. Other benefits include pregnancy and baby bonding leave, 401k benefits, commuter benefits and much more. We also offer a generous employee referral program!

For more information, visit www.natera.com.

Natera is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to ensuring a diverse and inclusive workplace environment, and welcome people of different backgrounds, experiences, abilities and perspectives. Inclusive collaboration benefits our employees, our community and our patients, and is critical to our mission of changing the management of disease worldwide.

All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply, and will be considered without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, disability or any other legally protected status. We also consider qualified applicants regardless of criminal histories, consistent with applicable laws.

If you are based in California, we encourage you to read this important information for California residents. 

Link: https://www.natera.com/notice-of-data-collection-california-residents/

Please be advised that Natera will reach out to candidates with a @natera.com email domain ONLY. Email communications from all other domain names are not from Natera or its employees and are fraudulent. Natera does not request interviews via text messages and does not ask for personal information until a candidate has engaged with the company and has spoken to a recruiter and the hiring team. Natera takes cyber crimes seriously, and will collaborate with law enforcement authorities to prosecute any related cyber crimes.

For more information:
- BBB announcement on job scams 
- FBI Cyber Crime resource page 

Salary : $230,000 - $280,000

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