VP, People

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO and leadership team on organizational design, leadership development, succession planning, and workforce strategy.
• Develop managers and leaders across the company and help raise the overall quality of leadership.
• Serve as a trusted advisor on organizational, leadership, management, and workforce-related decisions.
• Own and develop the People function, including HR business partnership, people operations, employee relations, compensation and benefits, performance management, compliance, and workforce planning.
• Partner closely with our Talent team to ensure hiring, onboarding, leadership development, performance management, workforce planning, and retention strategies work together to strengthen the organization over time.
• Build the systems, processes, tools, and operating mechanisms required to support a rapidly growing and increasingly complex business.
• Build and lead a high-performing People team that scales alongside the business.
• Lead the evolution of Plasmidsaurus's global workforce strategy, including international hiring, employment practices, compensation, mobility, immigration, workforce planning, and distributed team support.
• Evaluate and recommend the systems, partners, and organizational investments required to support continued international expansion and company growth.
• Ensure the company maintains strong employment, compliance, and workforce governance practices across all jurisdictions in which we operate.
• Oversee employee relations, investigations, policy development, and people-related risk management while balancing business needs, employee experience, and legal obligations.
• Partner effectively with external legal, immigration, and compliance experts to ensure the company scales responsibly.

Qualifications

• Led the People function through significant growth at least once, partnering closely with founders, CEOs, and executive teams.
• Successfully scaled teams, systems, and processes that support international growth, globally distributed teams, and increasing organizational complexity.
• Navigated increasing organizational complexity without sacrificing performance, and ensuring the company remains compliant, well-governed, and operationally sound.
• Partners with leaders who still seek your opinion and advice.
• Expertise in core People programs, including performance management, global compensation and benefits strategies, employee relations, compliance, workforce planning, and people operations.
• Experience operating in environments where execution matters, not just ideas.
• Data-driven approach to articulating the difference made in companies led and built.