Company Description

Rapid7 (NASDAQ: RPD) is helping organizations around the globe advance securely. Our technology, services, and community-focused research simplify complexity for security teams, helping them reduce vulnerabilities, monitor for malicious behavior, investigate and shut down attacks, and automate routine tasks. With more than 9000 customers across 120+ countries, Rapid7 is a recognized leader in cybersecurity that has proudly earned numerous industry accolades and strong recognition for our technology and culture. Learn more at www.rapid7.com.

Our Mission

By continuously improving our technology, stemming the creation of risk in the community, and making security more usable and accessible, Rapid7 enables technology professionals to gain the clarity, command, and confidence they need to safely drive innovation and protect against risk. Our product suite helps organizations to quickly predict, deter, detect, and remediate attacks and obstacles to productivity.

The Opportunity

A role at Rapid7 is not just another job opportunity. It is a chance to work in a fast paced company where employees are empowered to make an impact everyday, contribute back to our culture and take their career to the next level.

The People Strategy team is, at its core, obsessed with bringing out the best in our people to achieve transformational growth within themselves and for Rapid7 because we believe that our people are the lifeblood of our company and central to achieving our mission. We do this through a People Strategy partnership model that, at its core, starts with a deep understanding of our business, our culture and our people.

We are looking for a creative, growth minded, collaborative, and people focused individual to join our People Strategy team. You will help us implement and improve people programs with a shared goal of creating incredible experiences for our people, while supporting our growth and the achievement of Rapid7's business goals.

The People Strategist reports to the Senior Director, People Strategy (North America). They will partner with managers and teams to tackle day to day people issues, performance management and talent development programs. It's not just what you are contributing that's important to our people - it's HOW you do it.

The ideal candidate will be laser focused on understanding the business priorities, our culture and our people challenges as we scale. They will work to build solutions that will enable our employees to have the most productive and satisfying work experiences of their careers. You will be the people expert, working closely with leaders as they work on growing and developing their teams.

Job RequirementsWhat The Role Will Look And Feel Like:

• You will be the primary people strategy point of contact to the teams you support.

• You are passionate about understanding and optimizing the day to day experience of our people, and are their to help guide our employees through their journey

• You will partner with managers to proactively diagnose and communicate trends around people and team issues (ie engagement, retention, collaboration) and support the development of solutions to address them

• Through our Manager Effectiveness Index (MEI), you will act as a coach and partner to managers to strengthen and support their skills in performance coaching, handling difficult conversations, get well plans and other employee focused challenges (in compliance with local laws).

• You'll partner with the People Strategy leadership team to drive the execution of the employee lifecycle - including performance management, merit and bonus planning, promotions, internal transfers as well as conduct exit interviews and terminations.

• You'll deliver with a consistent focus on building a high-performing culture of growth and development through effective leadership, communication and feedback.

• Working with the with People Strategy team and business leaders, you'll ensure that employee initiatives are in line with and reinforce our company's culture and core values

Personal Characteristics:

• 3+ years of professional work experience in HR, Organizational Development, Talent Consulting or a related field

• Bachelors of Arts or Science required

• A delicate balance of business acumen, empathy, relationship building, and courageous dialogue with unquestionable integrity

• Approaches challenges with a learning mindset - you are not afraid to try something different and learn from your mistakes

• Has an amazing attitude – personable, approachable, and always eager to help

• You are an amazing communicator, able to effectively work with discretion and sensitivity across all levels of the business

• Handles ambiguity well – actually thrives in it

• A natural problem solver

• A natural influencer. People are comfortable around you, want to follow your lead and hear your perspective

• People love working with you because you:

  • You don't just enjoy being in “HR” because you “love people.” You value the difference your role can make in the experience people have at work.

  • Avoid drama like the plague

  • You provide insight and support without solving their problems for them

  • You are collaborative, warm, and instill a sense of support