Senior Global Leave of Absence & Wellness Specialist
94k – 132kUnited StatesRemote3+ YOE
Summary
Administer global leave of absence and workplace accommodation programs while designing employee wellness initiatives. Partner with HR, Legal, and Payroll to ensure compliance and support employees through medical, parental, and personal leaves.
About the role
Leave & Accommodation Administration
- Own end-to-end administration of leave of absence programs globally, including medical, parental, disability, bereavement, and other statutory or company leaves, ensuring consistent, compliant, and compassionate case management
- Serve as the primary point of contact for employees and managers navigating leaves, providing timely guidance and maintaining confidentiality throughout
- Manage the workplace accommodations process, partnering with HR Business Partners and Legal to assess requests, facilitate the interactive process, and implement solutions
- Monitor regulatory changes affecting leave entitlements globally and ensure 1Password's programs and policies remain compliant and competitive
- Partner with Payroll, Benefits, and HR Ops to ensure leave pay calculations, benefit continuations, and system updates are handled accurately and on time
- Identify gaps in existing leave and accommodations infrastructure and proactively build scalable processes, documentation, and tooling to close them
Wellness Administration
- Design, coordinate, and execute employee wellness programs and initiatives that support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing across a global, remote-first workforce
- Manage wellness vendor relationships, ensuring programs are effective, utilized, and aligned to employee needs
- Identify opportunities to evolve wellness offerings as the company scales
Team & Structure
- This is an individual contributor role with meaningful ownership and autonomy over programs
- Collaborate cross-functionally with Legal, Payroll, Benefits, and HR Ops, serving as a trusted resource for People Business Partners and managers navigating leave events and accommodation requests
Data & Analytics
- Support the development of a leave, accommodations, and wellness reporting framework, tracking key metrics such as utilization rates, return-to-work trends, and cost drivers
- Translate leave data into clear, accessible summaries for People leadership that connect program activity to broader workforce trends
- Own and maintain a regular reporting cadence (monthly, quarterly, annual) for People leadership leveraging established templates and frameworks
- Comfortable working with data, including spreadsheets and pivot tables, to track leave trends and report on program activity
Skills
Leave of Absence administrationWorkplace accommodationsGlobal wellness programsUS leave regulationsCanada leave regulationsADA complianceCanadian Human Rights ActHRIS platformsLeave management systemsVendor management
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