Director benefits

Paylocity is an award-winning provider of cloud-based HR and payroll software solutions, offering the most complete platform for the modern workforce. The company has become one of the fastest-growing HCM software providers worldwide by offering an intuitive, easy-to-use product suite that helps businesses automate and streamline HR and payroll processes, attract and retain talent, and build a strong workplace culture.

While traditional HR and payroll providers automate basic HR processes such as payroll and benefits administration, Paylocity goes further by developing tools that HR and businesses need to compete for talent and deliver against the expectations of the modern workforce.

We give our employees what they need to succeed, including great benefits and perks! We offer medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and a 401(k) match, as well as perks that support you, your family, and your finances. And if it’s career development you desire, we provide that, too! At Paylocity, people matter most and have always been at the heart of our business.

Help our award-winning technology company run effectively as you take on big challenges and find solutions with a position in Operations.

Use your problem-solving skills to shape the way others see Paylocity. Launch your career with us!

This is a 100% in-office role based in Schaumburg, IL location. Remote or hybrid work is not available for this position. Candidates must be able to work on-site five days per week during designated work hours.

Position Overview

The Director of Benefits Ops provides both strategic and day-to-day leadership to Paylocity’s Benefits teams, aligning departmental vision and structure with broader company and operational goals. This role is accountable for translating Paylocity’s objectives into actionable strategies within the Benefits function, ensuring effective management controls, processes, and team direction.

This leader oversees the successful onboarding and ongoing support of customers to Paylocity’s Benefits Enhanced and Benefits Enterprise products, which are critical components of our HR suite. The Director plays a key role in advancing our competitive position in the market by ensuring our Benefits Administration offerings are robust, user-friendly, and well-supported. Additionally, this function underpins our broker channel sales strategy, making excellence in product delivery and customer experience essential.

The Director collaborates closely with internal stakeholders, including operations leaders and systems development teams, to drive innovation, efficiency, and alignment across the Benefits Implementation function.

Primary Responsibilities

The below represents the primary duties of the position, others may be assigned as needed. To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Responsible for defining the vision and developing goals for their assigned teams.

2. Responsible for capturing data and working with our systems development teams to build the capabilities needed to support our customers well, allow for positive and efficient support experiences, and drive additional market opportunities.

3. Responsible for managing, developing, planning, and guiding strategic initiatives of the benefits implementation and support teams to achieve accepted goals and meet published SLAs.

4. Responsible for personnel staffing, morale, measurement, and employee development

5. Responsible for evaluating processes involving internal and external partners and working with those partners to improve them.

6. Responsible for effective communication between all internal and external partners.

7. Responsible for development of KPIs and reporting over the KPIs to senior management.

8. Responsible for leading the team to achieve productivity and financial targets while being accountable to the approved fiscal budget.

9. Strategic Initiatives: All operations directors will be expected to lead and/or participate in cross-departmental projects to tackle strategic initiatives.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum 10 years in an operational management role in a high-volume environment
• Knowledge of management concepts and practices including supervising and motivating employees, performance management and employee development/training.
• Proven success of management concepts and practices including supervising and motivating employees, performance management and employee development/training.
• Experience developing, implementing and managing control/auditing processes via a recognized process improvement methodology, (such as Lean Six Sigma), is required

Project Management:

• Experience managing employees working on both task oriented and project driven tasks a strong plus
• Experience managing tasks in a matrix project management environment is a strong plus
• Experience developing and driving adoption of cross departmental processes preferred
• Experience collecting data and driving development priorities using a data focused approach is a plus
• Experience working with payroll and/or HR data a huge plus!
• Extensive experience with a multi-customer product required.
• Demonstrated use of a Process Improvement methodology is required.
• Strong communication skills with external parties required

Physical requirements

• Ability to sit for extended periods: The role requires sitting at a desk or workstation for long periods, typically 7-8 hours a day.
• Use of computer and phone systems: The employee must be able to operate a computer, use phone systems, and type. This includes using multiple software programs and inquiries simultaneously.

Paylocity is an equal-opportunity employer. Paylocity is committed to the full inclusion of all individuals. We recruit, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, religion, color, national origin, sex, disability, age, veteran status, and other protected status as required by applicable law. At Paylocity, we believe diversity makes us better.

We embrace and encourage our employees’ differences in age, culture, ethnicity, family or marital status, gender identity or expression, language, national origin, physical and mental ability, political affiliation, race, religion or spiritual belief, sexual orientation, socio-economic status, veteran status, and other characteristics that make our employees unique. We actively cultivate these differences through our employee resource groups (ERGs), employee experiences, perspectives, talents, and approaches to drive innovation in the software and services we provide our customers.

We comply with federal and state disability laws and make reasonable accommodations for applicants and employees with disabilities. To request reasonable accommodation in the job application or interview process, please contact [email protected]. This email address is exclusively designated for such requests, aligning with federal and state disability laws. Please do not send resumes to this email address, as they will be removed.

The pay range for this position is $130,000 - $180,000 /yr; however, base pay offered may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. This position is eligible for an annual bonus and restricted stock unit grant based on individual performance in addition to a full range of benefits outlined here. This information is provided per the relevant state and local pay transparency laws for the location in which this position will be performed. Base pay information is based on market location. Applicants should apply via