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Head of People

People OperationsPeople OperationsFull TimeRemoteTeam 501-1,000Since 2009H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

United States

Posted

19 days ago

Salary

$154.5K - $200K / year

English

Job Description

• Design and run the human systems that power our mission • Connect talent to organizational performance in a global, distributed context • Serve as both architect and hands-on operator across talent acquisition, org design, leadership development, performance, rewards, HR operations, and employee relations • Lead on sensitive personnel matters with discretion and fairness • Partner with the CEO/COO and executives on org design, succession, and leadership effectiveness • Improve HRIS/workforce tools; standardize core processes; ensure compliant, efficient operations across countries

Job Requirements

  • Strong business acumen with a track record of treating the People function as a driver of company/organizational outcomes
  • Demonstrated success building simple, scalable systems (hiring, performance, rewards, workforce models, HRIS) across multiple countries and regulatory contexts
  • Depth in sensitive employee relations, risk management, and safeguarding across very diverse contexts and cultural settings
  • Recruits, calibrates, and develops senior talent; sets a high bar; builds a small, high-leverage team and operating cadence that scales
  • Structured, analytical thinker who disaggregates problems, designs from first principles, iterates quickly, and measures results
  • Comfort moving between private sector and NGO settings and between different org sizes

Benefits

  • A supportive team that works hard and cares hard
  • A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
  • Flexible paid time off that staff is encouraged to take
  • Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development

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