Senior Total Rewards Analyst, Axios
$80-110k
News media company
Job no longer available
News media company
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$80-110k
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To get you smarter, faster on what matters.
Role
Who you are
- 5+ years of Total Rewards experience, ideally with demonstrated strength in data analysis and strategic insights
- Familiarity with HRIS technologies/tools related to compensation, benefits administration, and leave management. Preference for Workday experience
- Understanding of monetary rewards and non-monetary recognition as methods to promote employee engagement and retention
- Excellent communication, influencing, and partnership skills
- Strong analytical skills, advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets, and a proven ability to translate complex qualitative and quantitative data into clear, actionable insights
- Initiative, resilience, precision, and flexibility amidst a high volume of time-sensitive requests and projects
- Experience administering benefits plans and navigating complex employee benefits
What the job involves
- The People Team at Axios is organized into three groups: People Operations, Talent Management, and Talent Acquisition. The People Operations group encompasses employee experience, total rewards, and compliance, and plays a pivotal role in supporting all Axions. This role will help ensure our benefits offerings remain competitive, compliant, and data-informed, while also supporting core compensation processes and projects
- Analyze and support the implementation of total rewards programs, with a primary focus on driving employee benefits offerings
- Monitor and evaluate benefits program effectiveness through data analysis, benchmarking, and vendor reporting
- Conduct regular audits of benefits enrollments, payroll deductions, and employee/employer contributions, cross-referencing internal records with carrier and vendor data to ensure accuracy, compliance, and payroll integrity
- Serve as a key resource for employee inquiries related to benefits, and provide backup support for compensation-related questions
- Collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive the annual benefits cycle, including open enrollment, vendor communications, data audits, and payroll support
- Assist in annual compensation cycle processes by supporting merit and promotion reviews with data gathering and system administration
- Provide support for compensation benchmarking and analysis as needed, particularly during high-volume periods
- Develop and distribute periodic total rewards communications using Axios’ Smart Brevity style to increase employee understanding and engagement
- Contribute to benefits education, training, and compliance initiatives across the organization
- Support People Operations with other analytical or project-based work as needed
Our take
Axios is a digital news site covering business, tech, politics, and media trends, with a focus on smart and efficient coverage. Much like rival comparable sites The Economist and Politico, it’s also diversified its media to include podcasts, newsletters, and a mobile app. Whilst it remains a major national and international news outlet, it’s also pursuing a new avenue to help shore up its position: local news.
Local news outlets have been in sharp decline over recent years: it’s too costly, with too little revenue. Axios’ plan is to opt instead for local newsletters. They’re highly advertiser-friendly, and the model itself is exceptionally scalable. So Axios may succeed where traditional efforts by other outlets like The Huffington Post (and countless local outfits) have failed.
Axios was previously held up as an exception to the mergers and acquisitions that other news outlets were enduring to weather the decline of print media. However, in order to fund the expansion into local news, Axios has been acquired by the global conglomerate (and previous investor in the company) Cox Enterprises. This is good news - Cox Enterprises owns and protects local newspapers in Ohio, and looks set to be a hands-off and values-aligned new Axios owner. In 2025, it was announced that OpenAI would be funding Axios's expansion into new US territories, suggesting even more growth on the horizon.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
60% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2019
$27m
SERIES C
Nov 2017
$20m
SERIES B
Total funding: $57m
Company benefits
- 401(k) with employer match
- Robust PPO and High Deductible health insurance options on the Blue Cross Blue Shield network
- Employer Health Savings Account (HSA) contribution for the high deductible health plan option
- Dental and vision coverage
- Primary caregiver 12-week paid leave
- Generous vacation policy, plus holidays
- One mental health day per quarter
- Annual learning and development stipend
- $100 monthly work-from-home stipend
- Tele-mental health services through Headspace
- OneMedical membership, including tele-health services
- Personal health advocacy resources through HealthAdvocate
- Inclusive fertility, hormonal health and family forming benefits through Carrot Fertility
- Access to the Axios “Family Fund”, which was created to allow employees to request financial support when facing financial hardship or emergencies
- Increased work flexibility for parents and caretakers
- Virtual company-sponsored social events
- A strong and positive work environment
- A commitment to an open, inclusive, and diverse work culture
Company HQ
Radnor - Fort Myer Heights, Arlington, VA
Leadership
Jim VandeHei
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously a Reporter for the Wall Street Journal and Washington Post, they then went on to found Politico and serve a decade as its CEO.
Mike Allen
(Co-Founder & Executive Editor)Spent nearly a decade as Politico's Chief White House correspondent before co-founding Axios in 2016.
Roy Schwartz
(Co-Founder & President)CEO of Axios HQ. Spent time as a partner at The Gallup Organization, then as VP and ultimately CRO of Politico.
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