# Total Rewards Manager at Bestow

- Company: Bestow
- What the company does: Bestow is the leading end-to-end life insurance SaaS company partnering with top carriers to modernize and transform the way they do business. Backed by NEA.
- Company website: https://www.bestow.com/
- Type: Startups
- Level: Senior
- Location: Remote, US
- Work setup: Remote
- Pay: $135K to $155K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-08-24
- Apply by: 2026-10-08
- Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bestow/82e52729-02db-4f87-8208-f6c7fb88aa36
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/bestow-total-rewards-manager/

## About the role

A strong partner: Excellent cross-functional partnership skills; this role works constantly with Finance and Legal, and needs to translate technical comp/equity concepts for managers and employees. Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing

## What they're looking for

- Experienced: 5-8+ years in compensation, total rewards, or a closely related HR discipline, including direct experience with equity administration at a venture-backed or newly-public company
- Ops-rooted: Ideally began in or spent time in people operations
- Platform-fluent: Hands-on experience with a comp benchmarking/planning platform (Pave, Radford, or similar) and running end-to-end merit/comp cycles
- Equity-fluent: Direct experience managing equity programs: grant sizing methodology, equity analysis, refresh/retention programs, Carta or similar cap table tools, and board/compensation committee facing materials
- Benefits-savvy: Benefits strategy experience: renewals, broker management, and plan design decisions
- Analytically sharp: Advanced Excel/analysis skills, comfort building and defending a compensation model from first principles rather than following a template

Tags: People Operations