Senior Associate, People & Experience Team

About the role

VaynerX is a contemporary family of companies working together to build and grow brands. Subsidiaries include VaynerMedia, Eva Nosidam Productions, The Sasha Group, Gallery Media Group, Tingley Lane Trading, VaynerSpeakers, and VaynerCommerce. This role is within the People and Experience Team (PET) on the Business Partner track.

Responsibilities

• Proactive 1:1 Engagement: Cultivate and lead 1:1 engagement for early-career employees in New York, maintaining a pulse on employee sentiment to mitigate burnout and strengthen retention efforts.
• Feedback & Performance Coaching: Support junior talent through career journey and development milestones, partnering with other PET members to coach mid-level managers on how to deliver clear, constructive feedback.
• Escalation & Alignment: Maintain a highly consultative relationship with PET leadership, vetting complex employee relation issues with your Senior Director before executing solutions.
• Cross-team Collaboration: Act as a critical operational and experience bridge across three pods, ensuring consistency in standard operating procedures and performance/employee milestones.
• Onboarding & New Hire Kickoffs: Lead the orchestration of new hire kickoff calls, setting the foundation for rapport and establishing the tone for each employee’s long-term career journey from Day 1.
• Support Initiatives: Support PET initiatives, and proactively identify creative ways to implement/scale support, including optimizing onboarding experiences and facilitating exit interviews to gather actionable insights.
• Operational Logistics: Manage end-to-end logistics, scheduling, and tracking for PET initiatives to ensure seamless execution across your pods.
• PET Workflows: Partner closely with our team Associate to clean up, optimize, and streamline day-to-day PET workflows and process efficiencies.

Requirements

• People Foundations: Ideally 1-2 years of relevant experience in the people support function.
• Deep Empathy & High EQ: Natural ability to connect with people, read a room, and navigate sensitive human situations with patience, kindness, and absolute discretion.
• Strong Project Management & Critical Thinking: Understands the "why" behind tasks, tracks multiple moving pieces across different pods without letting details slip.
• Strategic Problem Solving: Brings potential solutions to the table, has strong critical thinking skills.
• A Curious & Coachable Mindset: Hungry to learn career coaching and talent strategy, actively seeks out feedback and views challenges as opportunities to develop skills.
• Tech Savvy: Fluent in G Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides) and comfortable learning people management software (like HiBob) quickly.
• Discretion: Understands the sensitive nature of People situations/data and can be trusted with the highest level of confidentiality.