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Role Summary

Reporting to the Global Head of Talent Development, the Talent Development Specialist will support our global efforts to build our Talent Development service. Offering a full suite of complementary services across Assessment, Coaching, Leadership Development, and Outplacement, you will help build the business through service development, client support and engagement to ensure the highest quality delivery for our clients.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the Global Head of Talent Development in modifying current talent development services to respond to client needs and proactively react to the external market
• Support the Global Head of Talent Development to deliver our talent development services to our clients in a timely manner and to the utmost quality
• Administer talent development services, such as psychometric analysis assessments to ensure timely delivery to our clients, promptly responding to related inquiries
• Meet with potential talent development service vendors, building and managing solid relationships for the effective delivery of our services
• Research current trends and market direction to ensure that our talent development services are current, following best practices, meeting market needs, and to enable us to maximise opportunities
• Support the Lead Engagement team by meeting with clients during the discovery stages of client engagement; and later support the Global Head of Talent Development by helping to nurture the potential client in follow-up meetings, including closing sales
• Draft talent development service proposals based on current solution offerings and terms of delivery
• Share talent development service updates and promote new initiatives with key members in the talent advisory team
• Promote our talent development services throughout Robert Walters, with a particular focus on client facing associates to develop our internal network and facilitate business opportunities
• Give feedback to the Global Head of Talent Development on the talent development services to inform future development and continuous improvements in our services
• Carry out internal administrative and external operational tasks related to our talent advisory and talent development services
• Respond to internal and external inquiries regarding our talent development services to support the Global Head of Talent Development and the Talent Advisory Lead Engagement Team
  
  

• Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Organizational Behaviour or Psychology, Business Administration, or a related field (Master's degree preferred but not required).
• Strong understanding of the talent development sector including awareness of best practices, industry trends and methodologies
• Experience in creating various talent development solutions (some experience in delivering the solutions preferred but not required).
• Proven track record of managing client relationships and delivering successful projects.
• Ability to collaborate with internal teams and external partners effectively.
• Strong organizational skills to manage multiple tasks, ensuring timely delivery of services.
• Experience in client and vendor engagement, account management or similar role within the talent advisory or HR consulting sector
• An understanding of the recruitment sector and how talent advisory services align within the traditional recruitment service delivery model
• Ability to operate in an agile and responsive environment
• Capacity to operate with both timeliness and quality of delivery at the forefront
• Excellent communication, negotiation and presentation skills
  
  

• A unique opportunity to drive projects such as Employer Branding, Talent pipelining, Recruitment Innovation, Candidate Experience
• A track record of high performance and an ability to deliver excellent results consistently is key. In return for your hard work, you'll be offered a competitive top salary and benefits package with bonuses/commission and fantastic incentives programme
• Private medical insurance
• A fantastic training and development programme
• Volunteer time off
• The opportunity to partake / qualify for our Global incentive weekend
• Employee wellbeing through various programmes
• You'll have plenty of opportunities to progress your career, both in your country and other locations around the world. That's the benefit of working for a large global organisation. One that is at the forefront of recruitment innovation, and a specialist in RPO and MSP
  
  

• Seniority level Associate

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Human Resources
• Industries Staffing and Recruiting

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Job Description

The Talent Development Manager will work across our region, joining our local South Africa people team and reporting directly to the People Lead for South Africa with a dotted line to our Global Team Lead of Learning and Development and a strong dotted line into the Head of Sales for South Africa to ensure alignment, accountability, and direct impact on sales performance through coaching, training, and developmental initiatives. Your role will be to support the Go-To-Market organisations as well as to drive the implementation of global L&D standards. A key focus area will be to collaborate closely with the Head of Sales (South Africa) to align L&D initiatives to commercial objectives, with a 60 / 40 focus split: 60% dedicated to coaching and enablement within the Sales organisation, and 40% to broader global L&D standard implementation. Acting as a strategic advisor and coach to leaders, you will identify development priorities, design and deliver engaging workshops and trainings, and enhance our talent development offerings.

What will this role look like on a day-to-day basis?

1. Coach, onboard and train employees particularly in sales roles in South Africa and across the region.
2. Work in close partnership with Head of Sales (South Africa) and Sales Line Managers to ensure developmental efforts complement and do not override the managers' coaching responsibilities but instead strengthen alignment and reinforce sales leadership.
3. Actively track, measure, and report on L&D impact within the sales function, ensuring accountability to sales-related performance goals (e.g., KPI improvements, onboarding ramp time, competency development and improvement in success rate for PIP programs).
4. Drive the implementation of global Learning and Development standards, considering local and functional requirements (40%).
5. Serve as a trusted Learning and Development partner to the business leaders in close collaboration with People Partners.
6. Identify development needs and advise people leaders on individual and team development initiatives.
7. Design and facilitate workshops and trainings (e.g., Strengthsfinder) and deliver individual coaching sessions (e.g., 360° feedback).
8. Review and continuously improve existing offerings based on a deep understanding of business needs, ensuring a state-of-the-art Learning and Development portfolio.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of relevant experience in Talent Management within a dynamic, performance-driven environment.
• Experience in a sales environment, working with people to achieve KPIs and sales targets.
• Proven experience in applying diagnostic tools and delivering both individual and team coaching sessions.
• Demonstrated ability to independently design, facilitate and moderate trainings and workshops.
• Strong customer focus with confident consulting skills across all organizational levels.
• Openness to intercultural collaboration and a high level of intercultural awareness.
• Hands-on mindset with innovative ideas and a results-oriented approach.
• Willingness to travel to our other offices occasionally if required.

Additional Information

We are a community here that cares as much about your life outside work as how you feel when you’re with us. Because your job shouldn’t take over your life, it should enrich it. Here are some of the benefits we offer :

• 20 days annual leave and extra days between Christmas and New Year.
• Paid sick leave from day one.
• 16 days of family leave per year.
• Hybrid working model.
• Volunteering days.
• Maternity and Paternity leave benefits.
• Group life Cover including disability and Funeral cover.
• 24 / 7 Employee Assistance Programme.
• Discovery Flexicare.

Our Commitment

Equal opportunities are important to us. We believe that diversity and inclusion at The Stepstone Group are critical to our success as a global company, so we want to recruit, develop, and keep the best talent. We encourage applications from everyone, regardless of background, gender identity, sexual orientation, disability status, ethnicity, belief, age, family or parental status, and any other characteristic.

Talent Development Partner

Location: South Africa
Type: Permanent | Talent & Succession Strategy

Shape potential. Drive performance.

This is a strategic role for an experienced HR professional who thrives on building talent pipelines, enabling performance, and unlocking leadership capability. If you're ready to embed future-fit people practices across a business, this is your opportunity to lead.

About the Role

You’ll lead the talent and performance agenda across the organisation — from designing talent frameworks to enabling succession planning and high performance. Working across HR and business teams, you’ll provide toolkits, insights, and interventions that embed talent mobility and career growth at scale.

What You’ll Do

• Design and implement the organisation’s talent and performance strategy
• Lead talent reviews, succession planning, and career development initiatives
• Develop career ladders and competency frameworks across functions
• Build and optimise toolkits, processes, and talent technology
• Analyse talent data to inform strategy and close capability gaps
• Drive talent acceleration programmes and build internal pipelines
• Manage the full performance cycle — from goal-setting to reviews
• Align performance management with growth and retention strategies
• Partner with business and CoEs to influence and enable action

What You Bring

• Degree in HR, Organisational Development, or related field (postgrad an advantage)
• 10+ years total experience, with 5+ in talent and performance
• Proven record in designing and rolling out talent frameworks
• Strong understanding of career mobility, succession, and assessment tools
• Analytical and pragmatic, with a performance and growth mindset
• Excellent collaboration, facilitation, and stakeholder influence skills

What Success Looks Like

• Strong succession pipelines and internal mobility
• Embedded talent practices linked to business goals
• Performance culture that drives accountability and growth
• Measurable reduction in regrettable losses and talent risk

Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are building a Talent Development function that is future focused and driven to define the future of the workplace, within a global, growing open source software company, pioneers in remote-first collaboration and employment.

This is an opportunity for a person with outstanding leadership, organisation and intellect, to build our Talent Development team to enhance our leadership and people management practices in our remote setting. We are now 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries. We would like to create a new team to focus on Talent Development - to deepen our insights and effectiveness as a remote-first and globally distributed organisation.

We know that being effective remotely requires discipline and good habits, and we would like to invest in the research needed to understand that, the training and policymaking which enables it, and the selection mechanisms that ensure consistency of behaviours. We'd like to understand what really makes a distributed, remote-first workplace work. We think we're pretty good at this, remote-first for almost 20 years, but we know there is a lot still to understand, and the frontier of possibility continues to move outward. We'd like to invest in research, analytics and tooling which raises the bar even further for remote collaboration, organisation and leadership. Most importantly though, we'd like to invest in training and multi directional communications to ensure that our leadership team is consistent in setting and maintaining expectations, driving desired team practice and behaviors, as well as expected management practices are effectively embedded across the company .

This role is the fourth remaining Lead role in our People function, which is a cross-disciplinary group of organisational psychologists, engineers, statistics / analytics experts, talent science and employee relations specialists. We are recruiting globally, and believe we are bringing in outstanding new colleagues in a way that is fearlessly global. Naturally, they come from a wide range of backgrounds, norms and experiences, and our goal in setting up the Talent Development team is simply to lead the leaders to a position of consistent clarity on who we are, how we roll, and how that changes over time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

• Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program
• Develop, drive and embed effective programs of management and leadership development within our remote organisation
• Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate
• Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics
• Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning and career development.
• Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment
• Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists
• Take a data focused lens to understand trends to strategise and define career development frameworks
• Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget

• An exceptional academic track record from High school and beyond
• Possess insight and experience on what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
• Demonstrated experience with strong insight and perspective on the key conditions and practices that create high performing teams
• Ability to create, lead and execute strategy, and drive change across a company
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategy with execution
• Analytical and problem solving skills, for data driven decision making with particular experience in measurement of the impact of development programmes
• Experience in people management and being accountable for a budget
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are building a Talent Development function that is future focused and driven to define the future of the workplace, within a global, growing open source software company, pioneers in remote-first collaboration and employment.

This is an opportunity for a person with outstanding leadership, organisation and intellect, to build our Talent Development team to enhance our leadership and people management practices in our remote setting. We are now 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries. We would like to create a new team to focus on Talent Development - to deepen our insights and effectiveness as a remote-first and globally distributed organisation.

We know that being effective remotely requires discipline and good habits, and we would like to invest in the research needed to understand that, the training and policymaking which enables it, and the selection mechanisms that ensure consistency of behaviours. We'd like to understand what really makes a distributed, remote-first workplace work. We think we're pretty good at this, remote-first for almost 20 years, but we know there is a lot still to understand, and the frontier of possibility continues to move outward. We'd like to invest in research, analytics and tooling which raises the bar even further for remote collaboration, organisation and leadership. Most importantly though, we'd like to invest in training and multi directional communications to ensure that our leadership team is consistent in setting and maintaining expectations, driving desired team practice and behaviors, as well as expected management practices are effectively embedded across the company .

This role is the fourth remaining Lead role in our People function, which is a cross-disciplinary group of organisational psychologists, engineers, statistics / analytics experts, talent science and employee relations specialists. We are recruiting globally, and believe we are bringing in outstanding new colleagues in a way that is fearlessly global. Naturally, they come from a wide range of backgrounds, norms and experiences, and our goal in setting up the Talent Development team is simply to lead the leaders to a position of consistent clarity on who we are, how we roll, and how that changes over time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

The role entails

• Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program
• Develop, drive and embed effective programs of management and leadership development within our remote organisation
• Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate
• Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics
• Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning and career development.
• Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment
• Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists
• Take a data focused lens to understand trends to strategise and define career development frameworks
• Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget
  
  

• An exceptional academic track record from High school and beyond
• Possess insight and experience on what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
• Demonstrated experience with strong insight and perspective on the key conditions and practices that create high performing teams
• Ability to create, lead and execute strategy, and drive change across a company
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategy with execution
• Analytical and problem solving skills, for data driven decision making with particular experience in measurement of the impact of development programmes
• Experience in people management and being accountable for a budget
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events
  
  

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events
  
  

• Seniority level Executive

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Human Resources
• Industries Software Development

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Canonical is a leading provider of open source software and operating systems to the global enterprise and technology markets. Our platform, Ubuntu, is very widely used in breakthrough enterprise initiatives such as public cloud, data science, AI, engineering innovation and IoT. Our customers include the world's leading public cloud and silicon providers, and industry leaders in many sectors. The company is a pioneer of global distributed collaboration, with 1200+ colleagues in 75+ countries and very few office based roles. Teams meet two to four times yearly in person, in interesting locations around the world, to align on strategy and execution.

The company is founder led, profitable and growing.

We are building a Talent Development function that is future focused and driven to define the future of the workplace, within a global, growing open source software company, pioneers in remote-first collaboration and employment.

This is an opportunity for a person with outstanding leadership, organisation and intellect, to build our Talent Development team to enhance our leadership and people management practices in our remote setting. We are now 1,200+ colleagues across 75+ countries. We would like to create a new team to focus on Talent Development - to deepen our insights and effectiveness as a remote-first and globally distributed organisation.

We know that being effective remotely requires discipline and good habits, and we would like to invest in the research needed to understand that, the training and policymaking which enables it, and the selection mechanisms that ensure consistency of behaviours. We'd like to understand what really makes a distributed, remote-first workplace work. We think we're pretty good at this, remote-first for almost 20 years, but we know there is a lot still to understand, and the frontier of possibility continues to move outward. We'd like to invest in research, analytics and tooling which raises the bar even further for remote collaboration, organisation and leadership. Most importantly though, we'd like to invest in training and multi directional communications to ensure that our leadership team is consistent in setting and maintaining expectations, driving desired team practice and behaviors, as well as expected management practices are effectively embedded across the company .

This role is the fourth remaining Lead role in our People function, which is a cross-disciplinary group of organisational psychologists, engineers, statistics / analytics experts, talent science and employee relations specialists. We are recruiting globally, and believe we are bringing in outstanding new colleagues in a way that is fearlessly global. Naturally, they come from a wide range of backgrounds, norms and experiences, and our goal in setting up the Talent Development team is simply to lead the leaders to a position of consistent clarity on who we are, how we roll, and how that changes over time.

Location: This role will be based remotely in the EMEA region.

• Define and implement an inspiring and comprehensive talent development program
• Develop, drive and embed effective programs of management and leadership development within our remote organisation
• Design and deliver core training programs, partnering with specialist vendors where appropriate
• Create and implement leadership performance indicators and metrics
• Own our leadership skills matrix for performance management, talent assessment, succession planning, mentorship, virtual learning and career development.
• Set up a global learning framework for training and career fulfillment
• Build and manage a new team of Talent Development specialists
• Take a data focused lens to understand trends to strategise and define career development frameworks
• Own and enhance the impact of the learning budget

• An exceptional academic track record from High school and beyond
• Possess insight and experience on what makes people successful in a globally remote tech company at the management level.
• Demonstrated experience with strong insight and perspective on the key conditions and practices that create high performing teams
• Ability to create, lead and execute strategy, and drive change across a company
• Strong business acumen with the ability to balance strategy with execution
• Analytical and problem solving skills, for data driven decision making with particular experience in measurement of the impact of development programmes
• Experience in people management and being accountable for a budget
• Willingness to travel up to 4 times a year for internal events

We consider geographical location, experience, and performance in shaping compensation worldwide. We revisit compensation annually (and more often for graduates and associates) to ensure we recognize outstanding performance. In addition to base pay, we offer a performance-driven annual bonus or commission. We provide all team members with additional benefits which reflect our values and ideals. We balance our programs to meet local needs and ensure fairness globally.

• Distributed work environment with twice-yearly team sprints in person
• Personal learning and development budget of USD 2,000 per year
• Annual compensation review
• Recognition rewards
• Annual holiday leave
• Maternity and paternity leave
• Employee Assistance Program & Wellness Platform
• Opportunity to travel to new locations to meet colleagues
• Priority Pass and travel upgrades for long-haul company events

Canonical is a pioneering tech firm at the forefront of the global move to open source. As the company that publishes Ubuntu, one of the most important open-source projects and the platform for AI, IoT, and the cloud, we are changing the world of software. We recruit on a global basis and set a very high standard for people joining the company. We expect excellence; in order to succeed, we need to be the best at what we do. Most colleagues at Canonical have worked from home since our inception in 2004. Working here is a step into the future and will challenge you to think differently, work smarter, learn new skills, and raise your game.

Canonical is an equal opportunity employer

We are looking for an experienced HR Manager to support our business across South Africa and globally. They will be a key point of contact within the business bringing an enthusiastic, positive, and proactive approach that reflects and contributes to our values. They will have a no job too small or big attitude and will contribute to HR efforts and strategic initiatives that seek to optimize a positive team member experience and a future-facing working environment through responsibilities that include;

What you will do

• Contribute to the delivery of the HR Strategy and our People and Place goals and objectives for all our regions.
• Undertaking special projects as assigned by the Senior HR Manager applying transformational HR practices and approaches that add value and contribute to business success and growth.
• Be proactive and self-motivated in developing knowledge and understanding of employment law, practices, and appropriate procedures across the territories within which we operate.
• Provide day-to-day HR support and advice for all clients including recruitment, on-boarding, off-boarding, payroll, compensation analysis, family leave, performance management, and reporting/analytics.
• Supporting people managers and team members by advising on QCIC policies and procedures and assisting in and managing employee relations cases and issues.
• Managing end-to-end family and other leave processes e.g., planned/ unplanned absence, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave, etc.
• Support, facilitate, and deliver the end-to-end process around recruitment and onboarding activities, working closely with our talent acquisition team, hiring managers, and recruitment agencies.
• Participation in and supporting the HR and Strategic Initiatives functions with special projects that enhance the overall employee experience and help foster a positive, supportive working environment and culture e.g. employee engagement, learning and development, employer branding, and future-facing facilities and workspaces.
• Administration of transactions and maintaining records related to legal compliance matters e.g. visa processing & global mobility processes, health and safety, and fair employment.
• Acting as a positive ambassador for the business and our people, striving to demonstrate every day how the value that forward thinking and creative HR approaches contribute to business success and are critical to creating an exceptional team member experience.

What we are looking for

• 5 years experience as an HR Manager at a senior level and able to demonstrable good practice approach and procedures, as well as a solid employment law knowledge base.
• Experience in supporting HR efforts for employees that are based in regions within and outside of South Africa- e.g. US/HK/UK.
• Experience in collaborating across multiple functions and operating within a wider matrixed environment and global context.
• Experience in undertaking transactional HR administrative work, including data entry and transactions within HRM systems where attention to detail and accuracy is essential.
• Willingness to learn, being solution orientated and curious with an appetite to continually review and improve processes.
• Ability to be discreet and professional and maintain confidentiality of information with strong client relationship management skills.
• Ability to operate within a fast, dynamic, and ever-evolving environment calmly and professionally.
• A friendly, helpful, and positive personality with the ability to build strong, positive working relationships with our businesses and across the wider QCIC landscape.

NB: The successful candidate will be required to pass our security screening procedures and those of our clients.

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HR Manager — Build the People Engine of a Fast-Growing Remote Team

About Us

We’re a fast-scaling, founder-led company helping law firms grow with offshore legal talent. We’re lean, driven, and obsessed with excellence—and we’re building something special. Our team is global, but our culture is close-knit, high-trust, and fast-paced.

The Role

We’re hiring an HR Manager to lead and elevate all internal people operations—from hiring and onboarding to retention, culture, and performance development. You’ll work closely with our CEO and leadership team to build the people systems that power our growth.

All of our staff are international, so you won’t be managing any labor laws, tax compliance, or benefits. But you will lead all internal HR operations: employee handbooks, performance evaluations, retention programs, manager coaching, and recruiting oversight.

This is a strategic leadership role with high expectations. You’ll need to move quickly, make decisions confidently, and lead with clarity and urgency. You’ll also need a strong business mind—someone who understands how HR directly drives company performance.

What You’ll Do

• Design and own all internal HR systems and processes (onboarding, evaluations, offboarding, etc.)
• Actively drive employee retention, engagement, and satisfaction across global teams
• Lead performance management and coaching in partnership with department heads
• Oversee internal recruiting efforts and refine our hiring systems
• Create and update handbooks, workflows, and documentation
• Address people issues quickly and directly, with both empathy and accountability
• Act as the cultural compass and operating backbone of the internal team
• Align HR decisions with business strategy, efficiency, and bottom-line impact

You’ll Thrive Here If You…

• Move fast, make strong decisions, and course-correct when needed
• Have strong people instincts and high emotional intelligence
• Are proactive and take ownership without needing to be reminded
• Lead with clarity, consistency, and accountability
• Are tech-savvy and thrive in remote tools (Slack, Google Workspace, project trackers)
• Think like an operator, act like a leader, and care about business results
• Know how to connect culture, performance, and business outcomes

This Isn’t for You If…

• You wait for permission instead of taking initiative
• You need to be reminded to follow through on tasks or updates
• You get overwhelmed by ambiguity or fast pace
• You avoid tough conversations or delay decisions
• You default to building systems before taking action
• You prefer to observe rather than engage
• You expect to be trained on basics or need hand-holding
• You aren't comfortable being evaluated on speed, judgment, and ownership
• You don’t naturally think about business impact

Requirements

• 4+ years in HR leadership roles (people manager, HRBP, or Head of People equivalent)
• Experience in fast-paced startups or distributed teams strongly preferred
• Proven ability to drive retention, engagement, and performance across teams
• Strong business acumen and systems thinking—while still moving fast

What We Offer

• A leadership seat in a fast-growing, mission-driven company
• Total ownership of your lane
• Full trust and autonomy
• Competitive compensation
• Paid time off
• Health & wellness stipend
• Annual performance-based bonus opportunities
• Ongoing training and development

How to Apply

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• Seniority level Mid-Senior level

• Employment type Full-time

• Job function Human Resources
• Industries Staffing and Recruiting

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