Director, People Solutions & Talent Management (Remote, US)

As the Director, People Solutions & Talent Management you'll be a pivotal senior leader on our People & Culture team. Reporting directly to the VP of People and Culture, you will be the architect of a thriving, high-performance remote work environment. You will lead and mentor a talented team across People Solutions and Organizational Effectiveness, shaping the strategies that empower our leaders, engage our employees, and drive our business objectives forward.

This isn't just a role about running People programs; it's about enabling the operating system for our company's culture and growth.

How You'll Make an Impact

• Build High-Performing Teams: You will act as a trusted advisor to our leadership team, helping them build more effective and cohesive units. You'll implement our leadership model and use data from engagement surveys and 360s to drive meaningful change and organizational health.
• Drive Strategic People Solutions: You will lead our HR Business Partners to translate business goals into actionable people strategies. This includes everything from strategic workforce planning and building career paths to managing employee relations and evolving our performance management frameworks.
• Champion a Thriving Remote Culture: You will spearhead key employee experience programs, including DEI initiatives and coaching, to foster a collaborative and inclusive remote-first environment.

What You'll Bring to the Table

• Extensive HR Leadership Experience: You have a minimum of 10 years of progressive experience across HR business partnering, talent management, and organizational effectiveness,, preferably within a fast-paced tech or insurtech company.
• Strategic Vision: You possess a demonstrated history of developing and implementing talent strategies from inception, effectively addressing and foreseeing the evolving needs of a growing organization.
• Masterful Stakeholder Management: You excel at building trust and influencing outcomes with partners at all levels, from individual contributors to the executive team. You are an experienced and empathetic people manager.
• A Data-Driven Mindset: You are skilled in using quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, measure success, and tell a compelling story that drives action.
• Change Management Expertise: You have successfully led organizations through significant change, creating the playbooks, communication plans, and buy-in needed to ensure smooth transitions.

Key Responsibilities

People Solutions (HRBP & Talent Management Focus)

Drive a high-performance culture through a tailored approach to organizational design, superior employee and leadership support, and talent development at all levels.

• Lead strategic business partners to align people strategy with business objectives.
• Strategic workforce planning, capability modeling.
• AI-enabled career pathing/job architecture.
• Functional bench strength planning and training.
• Technology-enabled learning and development.
• AI-enabled policy, compliance, and employment regulation ownership.
• Employee relations.
• Performance management, succession planning, and talent frameworks.
• Employee experience programs including DEI, coaching, and microcultures to support an effective, collaborative remote environment.

Organizational Effectiveness

Accelerate functional/cross-functional effectiveness and buy-in for major change initiatives.

• Leadership operating systems.
• Leadership frameworks.
• Execution of the Openly Leadership Model.
• Culture assessments, engagement surveys, 360s, etc.
• Change management playbooks, communication across major initiatives.
• Implementation and communication plans with clarity in ownership, accountability, decision-making, and expectations.

Requirements

• A minimum of 10 years of progressive experience in business partnering, talent management, and organizational effectiveness in a dynamic business environment with a strong focus on operational excellence.
• Demonstrated success in scaling People and Culture initiatives within organizations with fewer than 750 employees required, ideally in a remote environment
• Experience partnering with and supporting technical teams in a fast-paced, agile development environment, preferably within a technology or insurtech company
• Exceptional team, partner and stakeholder management skills.
• Experience evolving a talent management strategy to support strategic company objectives.
• Proven success with change management initiatives and playbooks.
• Quantitative skills to enable a data-driven approach to People and Culture success.
• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate insights to leadership and stakeholders.
• Proficiency in traditional and creative development approaches to support diverse business functions.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Exceptional project management skills.
• Experience in a technology company is strongly preferred.