GitLab: Benefits Analyst — Bangalore, India

About GitLab

GitLab develops a software platform covering the development, security and operations lifecycle. Its product combines planning, source-code management, continuous integration, security scanning and release tooling in a single application, offered in both cloud and self-managed software models. The company runs with an all-remote workforce and no headquarters location, and its employer feed lists roles across engineering, product, support and commercial functions.

The position and its setting

GitLab lists Benefits Analyst in Bangalore, India, under reference 8864819002. The details below separate the work described by the employer from essential conditions, preferred experience and practical preparation advice.

• Department: Total Rewards
• Employer listing date: 9 October 2026

Responsibilities and work described

• Support: day-to-day administration for assigned benefits programs, including eligibility, enrollment, benefits onboarding, billing, reporting, audits, quality assurance, documentation, and issue resolution, with a particular focus on India
• Review: benefits and team-member data from multiple sources, research discrepancies and root causes, and recommend next steps for manager or senior team-member review
• Work: with brokers and vendors on day-to-day benefits operations, and support the Senior Benefits Analyst with renewals, plan changes, implementations, testing, launches, and post-launch improvements
• Benefits plan decisions remain with the Senior Benefits Analyst
• Plan, host, and manage benefits events at the Bangalore hub, and coordinate assigned benefits activities across selected countries and employment arrangements
• Apply documented processes and escalate questions that require deeper local or technical expertise
• Partner with Payroll, Finance, People Operations, and People Technology on accurate reporting, billing reconciliation, eligibility data, and compliance-related processes
• Support: People Operations in resolving team-member benefits inquiries, explain moderately complex benefits topics in accessible language, and escalate cases appropriately
• Analysis: benefits utilization, cost, survey, and qualitative data to identify trends and prepare summaries, insights, and recommendations that support team priorities
• Maintenance: accurate documentation, process guides, trackers, and communications; support the transition of administrative processes and recommend ways to simplify, standardize, or automate them, including responsible use of artificial intelligence tools
• Protect accuracy and team-member experience, communicate progress and risks, and seek guidance on prioritizing improvements
• What You’ll Bring
• Work: knowledge of core benefits concepts, such as medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and supplemental benefits
• Intermediate or stronger Excel or Google Sheets skills, including VLOOKUPs, filters, pivot tables, and data analysis; macros aren't required
• Evaluate multiple sources, identify patterns or discrepancies, and develop evidence-based recommendations with appropriate guidance
• Clear written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain benefits topics in accessible language and collaborate across functions

Essential requirements and candidate background

• Experience supporting benefits administration, including enrollment, reporting, and audits, and working with benefits brokers or vendors
• Strategic benefits plan design experience isn't required
• Experience using a human resources information system (HRIS), benefits administration platform, or similar operational tools, with attention to detail in data entry, testing, reconciliation, and quality assurance
• Manage assigned work, meet deadlines, communicate when blocked, and distinguish urgent work from work that can be sequenced
• Be based in Bangalore and go to our Bangalore hub to host and manage benefits events, with flexibility for collaboration across time zones, including Pacific time

Preferred experience and additional strengths

• Experience supporting benefits in more than one country is required; global technology company experience is preferred
• Workday experience is preferred

Location, schedule and contract conditions

• You'll need to be based in Bangalore, with periodic office presence for hosting and managing benefits events, and flexibility to collaborate across time zones, including Pacific time
• Advertised location: Bangalore, India

Pay and application dates

A verified salary figure is not established in this article. An online estimate for another Benefits Analyst vacancy is not an offer for reference 8864819002; use the employer’s own pay disclosure and recruitment communication.

A closing date is not confirmed in this article. Check the current employer page before submitting: an undated posting can change or be withdrawn.

How to apply to GitLab

Applications follow the official employer page linked below.

Open the official GitLab posting below and match the title and reference 8864819002.

Compare your qualifications and experience with the essential conditions for the Bangalore, India position, then read the preferred criteria separately.

Prepare an accurate CV and the supporting items requested in that employer’s application. Provide only information and documents you are authorised to share.

Use the employer’s application option, complete the required fields and review the submission. Retain the acknowledgement when one is provided. Job Alerts World does not receive the application.

Practical preparation: Excel

Excel examples should identify the task, the data and the checks used to avoid an incorrect result. Explain whether you built a reporting workbook, reconciled records, automated a process or maintained an existing model.

Relevant skills

• AI/ML
• Excel
• data analysis
• AI
• quality assurance
• process improvement
• audit
• compliance
• recruitment