Director / Senior Director, Hr Operations & Compensation

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Adicet Bio, Inc. is a clinical stage biotechnology company discovering and developing allogeneic gamma delta T cell therapies for cancer. Adicet is advancing a pipeline of “off-the-shelf” gamma delta T cells, engineered with chimeric antigen receptors (CARs) and adaptors (CAds), to enhance selective tumor targeting and facilitate innate and adaptive anti-tumor immune response for durable activity in patients. For more information, please visit our website at https://www.adicetbio.com.
Director / Senior Director, Hr Operations & Compensation
In this role you will partner with the HR leadership to inform the HR Operations strategic direction for Adicet. You will be responsible for the HRIS design, implementation, integration, and administration, as well as for successful integration between the HRIS and other HR & Finance systems including: applicant tracking, benefits enrollment systems, payroll, and all data feeds to various partners and external systems.
You will manage our compensation programs to ensure alignment with company mission, values, goals and competitive practices. You will ensure HR-related policies, programs and systems are consistently administered in compliance with company and quality policies.
This role requires you to be a strategic thinker to enable the organization as it scales, an advisor to employees as they navigate important topics (such as employee benefits and compensation) and a proven collaborator with key functional partners.
Key Responsibilities
HR Operations

• Ensure appropriate procedures are in place for compliance as the company scales (e.g. I-9, SOX, etc.).
• Provide management oversight of the day-to-day operations related to HRIS systems and technology.
• Serve as the HRIS data trustee, implementing and maintaining proper data integrity procedures, audits and system/process controls.
• Ensure awareness of and compliance with state and federal employment regulations; monitors legislative matters impacting human resources and alerts leadership as and when needed.
• Ensure the accuracy and quality of HR information as used by employees, management, third party administrators, auditors, and regulatory authorities.
• Design and develop a HRIS roadmap and implement new systems and process improvements with a focus on usability for end-users and process/cost efficiencies.
• Monitor employee classifications to ensure compliance with Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) guidelines.
• Create, coordinate with legal and other stakeholders, review, edit and implement HR policies, ensuring functional experts are appropriately engaged and contributing timely content. Oversees review and publishing of final policies, gain approval and is responsible for ongoing policy review.

Compensation

• Ensure compliance related to compensation regulations, including the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), Equal Pay Act, American with Disabilities Act (ADA), Lilly Ledbetter Act, etc.
• Create and implement the annual compensation review plan, timeline, tools and resources to support the organization with cash and incentive compensation decisions each year.
• Develop compensation recommendations to maintain internal equity and external competitiveness and to ensure compliance with all regulatory requirements.
• Make strategic recommendations, implement, and administer total reward plans (benefits programs, direct compensation, annual incentive, and long-term incentive programs) to attract, retain, and motivate talent.
• Establish the benefits plan strategy and design; ensure relevant partners are in place and ensure plan is communicated effectively with executives and employees on an annual basis.
• Identify, complete, and analyze compensation surveys annually.

Job Requirements

• Ability to handle confidential information with extreme discretion.
• In depth knowledge of US regulatory compliance and controls; demonstrated experience ensuring employer compliance with federal, state and local laws and regulations related to compensation and employment practices through proper operating and governance procedures.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills; experience interacting effectively with executives.
• Experience as an organizational change leader with ability to manage communications, training, etc. as processes, procedures, systems and technology changes are made.
• Outstanding analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills
• Proven ability to lead a variety of projects including gap assessment, analysis, solution design and implementation.
• Solutions driven team player with the ability to coach those that do not report to you .
• Advanced Microsoft Office skills, particularly Excel.
• Bachelor’s Degree Business or related field and at least eight years of progressively responsible experience in HR management, HRIS and compensation & benefits administration, or Master’s Degree and at least five years similar experience.
• Ability to effectively delegate, coach and develop others.

At Adicet, our people are our greatest focus. We believe that attracting and retaining the best and brightest is the key to achieving our mission to deliver best-in-class gamma delta T cell therapies for patients fighting cancer.
We offer a competitive compensation package including base salary, annual cash bonus, long-term incentives (equity), Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) and a 401(k) with ROTH and a 4.5% Company match.
To ensure the wellness of our employees and their loved ones, we offer comprehensive health plans (medical, dental, vision, etc.), Flexible Health and Commuter Spending Accounts (FSA) and a company matched Health Savings Account (HSA). We also offer a life, AD&D, short and long-term disability insurance, and legal, pet, and various other voluntary insurance programs.
We also believe our greatest ideas come when we are refreshed and focused, and we offer generous paid time-off including 12 company holidays with end-of-year shutdown, vacation, sick time, and paid parental leave.
Adicet is located in a state-of-the-art facility and works to create an incredible office experience with an onsite gym and various other fitness options, abundant, zero-cost, onsite parking with electric vehicle charging stations and free shuttle (Caltrain), company subsidized lunches (delivered onsite daily) and fully stocked breakrooms.
In compliance with California’s pay transparency law and in pursuit of pay equity and fairness, we publish salary ranges for all open positions. The pay scale range for this role is $193,000.00 - $268,000.00 annualized base salary. The salary of the finalist selected for this role will be set based on a variety of factors, including but not limited to, their qualifications (education, experience, specialty, and training), and peer and market data. This listed salary range represents the Company’s good faith and reasonable estimate of the range of possible compensation at the time of posting.