Head of People

The one-sentence summary of your job: You will build, implement, and maintain programs that make sure we are walking the walk of our values, create a fulfilling working environment, and help nurture and mentor our team so that we can all be better. A typical week for you may be: Joining the weekly leadership team meeting with the CEO and other department heads, updating the team on people issues. Meeting 1-on-1 with other leaders, helping us all by:Providing mentoring on people management, including finding the right outside mentors and coaches, inline with our growth mindset value.Making sure a leader is trained up and following our hiring/onboarding process, inline with our respect (and thus eliminating bias during interviewing) value. Helping leaders think through tough calls when necessary, inline with our hunger and accountability value.Driving forward the plan for the next company-wide event, whether it be our monthly social or our yearly offsite.Maintaining our HRIS systems (teaming with accounting), analytics, performance management, and compliance programs.Responsibilities:Solutions, not just problem identification.Understand & measure, and ultimately advise, on overall company engagement and performance (bottom-up, employee to executive understanding). Proactively identify any issues.Bi-annual employee surveysBi-annual performance reviewsQualitative understanding through regular meetings with people throughout the company.Leadership building (top-down, executive-to-employee culture and management-building):As a member of the leadership team, work with the CEO and department heads to build the best management programs.Help plan and implement team-building with the leadership during offsite pany growth:Drive recruiting efforts, including interaction with external recruiting contractors at teams.Onboarding/offboarding. Appropriate and consistent policy and procedure review.Overall culture building.Implement yearly company retreatsMonthly virtual team-building social eventsDeal with change in a healthy way for a growing Series B company, approximately doubling in size. HR ComplianceCoordinating with legal on rules and laws to ensure compliance, and be the centralized resource leading/coordinating any response to issues.Skills:Experience in people management (about 5+ years experience).Experience in HR significant enough to oversee HR responsibilities for 30 person (today) to double (12-18 months) growth.Systems-based thinking, i.e., figure out "what is the system to implement here" to continue to grow capacity.Ability to effectively present to the leadership team, board, and larger company (slides, talks, messaging, etc).Experienced in HR management requirements and practices, including working with corporate counsel to understand and implement any federal, state, and local requirements. Familiarity with appropriate technology, such as HRIS (we use rippling), team management (we use lattice), presentations/talks (we use google slides), etc. If unfamiliar, ability to get up to speed quickly.A people person. The team should feel comfortable and safe confiding in you when fortable working from undefined/underdefined problems faced by startups to creating definite solutions and systems. High degree of integrity, natural desire to empower, strong work ethics, deep sense of accountability and continuous improvement mindset and capabilities.Knowledge of employment laws at the state, federal, and local level, such as IRS regulations, COBRA, FMLA, HIPPA, FLSA, and AWW regulations.Coaching and HR Business Partners Experience a big plus

Created: 2021-11-29