Director of Global Benefits

Scopely is looking for a Director of Global Benefits to join our People team hybrid in Culver City or Remote in the United States! At Scopely, we care deeply about what we do and want to inspire play, every day, whether in our work environments alongside our talented colleagues, or through our deep connections with our communities of players. We are a global team of game lovers who are developing, publishing, and innovating the mobile games industry, connecting millions of people around the world daily. The People team supports Scopely’s employees through programs, practices, and experiences that help our teams do their best work. What You’ll Do This role will lead Scopely's global benefits strategy and operations, scaling programs across multiple countries and regions while balancing global consistency with local market practices. You will lead a team of benefits professionals and partner closely with People, Finance, Legal, Payroll, regional teams, vendors, brokers, and business leaders to ensure the benefits and wellbeing programs are competitive, compliant, scalable, inclusive, accessible, innovative, and locally relevant to the global workforce. This will be achieved through thoughtful program design, clear communication, strong vendor partnerships, and data-informed decision-making. Lead the strategy, governance, and ongoing evolution of Scopely’s global benefits portfolio, ensuring programs are competitive, inclusive, cost-effective, compliant, scalable, and aligned with local market practices. Develop and evolve Scopely’s benefits philosophy, ensuring programs support attraction, retention, inclusion, employee wellbeing, and the needs of a diverse global workforce. Translate benefits strategy into clear priorities, roadmaps, operating plans, and success measures for the benefits team and cross-functional partners. Oversee core benefits programs, including health and welfare, retirement, leave of absence, disability, wellbeing, and regionally relevant offerings across Scopely’s markets. Own benefits: budget planning, forecasting, and cost management; prepare leadership-ready analysis on performance, cost trends, utilization, risks, employee impact, vendor performance, and investment tradeoffs. Evaluate funding, governance, and plan design strategies across global markets, balancing employee experience, local relevance, cost, risk, compliance, and scalability. Lead global benefits renewals and enrollment strategy, including plan changes, stakeholder alignment, employee communications, leadership engagement, and post-enrollment analysis. Build strong vendor, broker, consultant, and provider relationships; work with partners to ensure service quality, innovation, issue resolution, compliance support, and value delivery. Strengthen Scopely’s benefits service delivery model by improving processes, systems, vendor partnerships, self-service resources, and cross-functional operating rhythms. Ensure benefits programs, policies, documentation, vendor processes, and operating practices are compliant, well-controlled, audit-ready, and scalable across the regions where Scopely operates. Provide strategic oversight for leave of absence, disability, statutory leave, and return-to-work processes, ensuring thoughtful coordination across employees, managers, People partners, Payroll, vendors, and benefit providers. Identify practical and responsible uses of AI, automation, analytics, and emerging technologies to improve benefits operations, reporting, communications, knowledge management, employee self-service, and decision support. Support benefits due diligence, integration planning, harmonization, and employee communications for acquisitions, entity changes, new market expansion, or significant organizational growth. Lead, coach, and develop the benefits team while building capability for future scale. What We’re Looking For Proven experience leading global benefits programs, including benefits strategy, plan design, vendor managemen