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# Total Rewards Manager at Bestow

- **Company:** Bestow
- **Location:** United States
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** remote
- **Posted:** 2026-08-24
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-04
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bestow/82e52729-02db-4f87-8208-f6c7fb88aa36

## Job description

## ABOUT BESTOW

Life insurance is one of the world's most important products. It's also one of the hardest to build, distribute, and modernize. Bestow exists to change that.

Bestow is a leading vertical technology platform serving some of the largest and most innovative life insurers. Our platform unifies the fragmented, legacy value chain, enabling carriers to launch products in weeks instead of years. Carriers choose us to scale and operate at unprecedented speed, powered by AI and automation.

Bestow isn't selling policies. We're building the infrastructure that helps an entire industry move faster, reach more people, and deliver on its promise.

Backed by leading investors (Goldman Sachs, Hedosophia, NEA, Valar, 8VC) and trusted by major carriers, Bestow is powered by a team that moves with precision, purpose, and heart. If you want to help reimagine a centuries-old industry with lasting impact, join us.

Bestow offers flexible remote/hybrid work, meaningful benefits, equity, and substantial growth opportunities.

Bestow uses E-Verify to confirm the employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit E-Verify.gov http://e-verify.gov.

## ABOUT THE TEAM

Bestow is building a dedicated Total Rewards function for the first time. Today, compensation, equity, and benefits work is split across People, Finance, and Legal with no single owner. This role exists to own the full total rewards portfolio (pay, equity, and benefits) end to end, bring rigor to how Bestow benchmarks and communicates rewards, and partner closely with Finance, Legal, and the board's compensation committee as Bestow scales.

This is a hands-on, builder role at a company still standing up its Total Rewards infrastructure. Expect to both set strategy and do the execution work (Pave configuration, equity modeling, benefits renewals) in year one.

## WHAT YOU'LL DO

As the Total Rewards Manager, you will:

- Own Pave end to end: benchmark configuration (market cut, percentile, geographic tiers), comp cycle setup, and data integrity between BambooHR (HRIS) and Pave.
- Manage the Total Rewards Assessment & Roadmap: audit current comp and benefits philosophy, market positioning, and tooling.
- Maintain and refresh salary bands: anchor to a clear, consistently-applied benchmarking philosophy; review and resolve flagged band outliers by job family.
- Partner on job leveling: bring consistency to a leveling framework and support a more standardized leveling process.
- Own the bi-annual merit, promotion & bonus cycle: design and execution in Pave, partnering with Finance on budget and approval workflows.
- Equity Administration: partner closely with Legal and Finance teams to maintain an up to date equity database
- Manage overall equity program: ongoing market benchmarking of equity practices, equity analytics, and end-to-end execution of refresh and promotion equity cycles.
- Assess geographic pay ranges: make the case for them as Bestow's workforce becomes more distributed.
- Own benefits strategy: annual renewal strategy, plan design changes, and new offering evaluation (e.g., lifestyle spending accounts, wellness perks, voluntary benefits), in partnership with the broker.

## WHO YOU ARE

- 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.
- 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.
- Bonus points: Experience standing up a Total Rewards function from scratch at a similarly-sized company (~100-250 employees); familiarity with job architecture/leveling framework design; insurance, fintech, or other regulated-industry experience.

## TOTAL REWARDS

At Bestow, we’re proud to be awarded for our team members, innovative products, and culture. Our standard benefits include:

- Competitive salary and equity based on role
- Policies and managers that support work/life balance, like our flexible paid time off and parental leave programs
- 100% paid-premium option for medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Lifestyle stipend to support your physical, emotional, and financial wellbeing
- Flexible work-from-home policy and open to remote
- Remote and WFH options, as well as a beautiful, state-of-the-art office in Dallas’ Deep Ellum, for those who prefer an office setting
- Employee-led diversity, equity, and inclusion initiatives

Recent Employer Awards include:

- Best Place for Working Parents 2023 + 2024 + 2025
- Great Place to Work Certified, 2022 + 2023 + 2024 + 2025
- Built In Best Places to Work, 2022 + 2023 + 2025
- Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Texas 2022 + 2023
- Fortune’s Best Workplaces in Financial Services and Insurance 2022 + 2023 + 2024

We value diversity at Bestow. The company will hire, recruit, and promote regardless of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, pregnancy or maternity, veteran status, or any other status protected by applicable law. We understand the importance of creating a safe and comfortable work environment and encourage individualism and authenticity in every team member.

Thanks for considering a job at Bestow!

## About Bestow

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Bestow provides a leading SaaS platform for life insurance carriers to modernize their new business, underwriting, and administration workflows.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series D)
- **Headquarters**: Dallas, Texas, United States
- **Founded**: 2017
- **Founders**: Melbourne O'Banion (CEO) and Jonathan Abelmann (President)

## Core Business
- **Primary Industry**: Insurtech / Life Insurance Software
- **Target Customers**: B2B – Life insurance carriers looking to digitize and streamline their operations (new business, underwriting, administration).
- **Mission/Purpose**: To modernize the life insurance industry by providing cutting-edge technology and data solutions that reduce costs, maximize efficiency, and drive growth for carriers.

## Products & Services
- **Bestow Platform (End-to-End Solution)**: A comprehensive SaaS suite for life carriers covering digital quote, illustration, and application journeys; a sophisticated underwriting engine and workbench; payment, billing, and policy delivery services; and customer/support portal experiences. Supports term life, final expense, IUL, and more.
- **Modular Solutions**: Carriers can implement individual components (e.g., just the underwriting engine or just the administration portal) to modernize specific parts of their business.
- **TPA Services**: Full third-party administration services trusted by top carriers.
- **Recommendation Engine**: An AI-driven tool to drive underwriting efficiency and cost reduction.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not publicly disclosed.
- **Key Metric (Total Funding)**: $422.5M total funding across 8 rounds, including a $120M Series D in 2021 from Goldman Sachs and Smith Point Capital, and a $50M debt financing round in 2025.
- **Key Metric (Annual Revenue)**: Estimated at $145.9M.
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: Goldman Sachs, Smith Point Capital, Hedosophia, New Enterprise Associates (NEA).
- **Growth Signals**: 31.9% year-over-year headcount growth (207 employees); active international presence in Pakistan and Colombia; recently sold its direct-to-consumer carrier (Bestow Life Insurance Company) to Sammons Financial Group in 2024 to focus entirely on the B2B SaaS platform.

## Competitive Advantages
- **Speed & Efficiency**: Promises to bring new life insurance products to market in months, not years, and to reduce carriers' cost to acquire a customer by as much as 45%.
- **Deep Insurance Expertise**: Combines top tech talent with a leadership team that has deep experience in insurance and financial services.
- **Proven Track Record**: Has a live, white-labeled platform trusted by top carriers, with a track record of rapid implementation (as fast as 4 months).
- **Modularity & Flexibility**: Offers both end-to-end and modular solutions, allowing carriers to modernize at their own pace and focus on their biggest pain points.

## Strategic Focus
- **B2B SaaS Pivot**: Following the sale of its own insurance carrier, Bestow is now purely a technology partner for other carriers.
- **Product Expansion**: Continuing to build out its platform to support more product types (IUL, final expense) and distribution channels (agent portals).
- **Cost & Efficiency Leadership**: Emphasizing its ability to lower carriers' costs and improve underwriting efficiency through automation and data-driven decision-making.
- **International Growth**: Expanding its workforce and likely its client base internationally, with offices in Pakistan and Colombia.

## Why Work Here
- **Remote-First Culture**: Bestow is a "remote-first, results-first" company, allowing employees to work where they work best. There is also an office in Dallas for those who prefer an in-person setting.
- **Comprehensive Benefits**: 100% coverage of healthcare premiums (medical, dental, vision) for employees, dependents, and domestic partners; flexible PTO; equity and bonus opportunities for all employees; pre-tax retirement and FSA programs; scholarships for education and enrichment.
- **Award-Winning Workplace**: Recognized as an award-winning workplace with a strong emphasis on employee well-being and work-life balance.
- **High-Growth Environment**: With 31.9% YoY headcount growth and a recent strategic pivot, the company offers significant opportunities for impact and career growth.
- **Strong Engineering Culture**: Emphasizes modern tech stacks and a test-and-learn approach; actively hiring for engineering roles (Golang, Full Stack).

## Sources
1. [bestow.com](https://www.bestow.com/)
2. [bestow.com/careers](https://www.bestow.com/careers)
3. [bestow.com/about](https://www.bestow.com/about)
4. [linkedin.com/company/bestowtech](https://www.linkedin.com/company/bestowtech)
5. [jobs.ashbyhq.com/bestow](https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/bestow)

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