Who You Are

The People Team at Justworks’ vision is to create an environment where our people can grow, thrive and feel seen. We do this in support of building a generational company, and we know if we can achieve our vision, it enables Justworkers to do their best & most meaningful work. We are seeking an experienced and dynamic leader to join our leadership team as the Vice President of People. This role will be instrumental in shaping our company culture, attracting top talent, and creating an exceptional employee experience. 

As the VP of People, you are a talent magnet and get motivated and inspired by building and growing people professionals. You will bring an incredible customer centric mindset, while utilizing technology to remove friction and improve efficiency for our team members across the company. You are curious about how to enable the business to achieve their goals, and you are never satisfied with where we are today, are able to acknowledge great work, but understand that this role supports the most important part of the business, our people. 

Your Success Profile

What You Will Work On

• Develop and implement strategic plans: Develop and implement innovative strategies that impact the entire employee life cycle - from recruitment, onboarding, all the way through the entire employee life cycle 
• Lead and oversee Talent Acquisition, Workplace, People Systems, and People Operations teams
• Drive employee engagement through curated experiences: through using previous experience and data, you will devise a strategy to enhance employee engagement, satisfaction, and productivity while removing friction in the way we work as a company both physically and virtually
• Employer branding strategy: oversee the strategy planning, execution and ongoing optimization of various employer brand campaigns across various channels
• Location Strategy: Identify and capitalize on emerging talent market areas and lead 
• AI optimization: partner with engineering teams to identify use cases for the utilization of AI to build efficiencies for the people team
• Collaborate with executive leadership to align people strategies with business objectives
• Manage and scale high-performing teams across multiple functions
• Build and scale people analytics skillset to help inform the business strategy

How You Will Do Your Work

As Vice President, People, how results are achieved is paramount for your success and ultimately result in our success as an organization. In this role, your foundational knowledge, skills, abilities and personal attributes are anchored in the following competencies:

• Good judgment - the exercise of critical thinking, analyzing and assessing problems and implications, identifying patterns, making connections of underlying issues, understanding risks and developing mitigation strategies, and taking ownership of the outcome.
• Teamwork and communication - putting our collective best together through documentation, collaboration, relationship-building, listening, empathy, recruiting, and evangelism.
• Nimble learning - actively learning through experimentation when tackling new problems, using both successes and failures as learning fodder.
• Results-driven - consistently achieves results, even under difficult circumstances.
• Strategic mindset - anticipates future trends and implications accurately; articulates credible pictures and visions of possibilities that will create sustainable value.

All Justworkers focus on aligning their behaviors to our core values known as COGIS. It stands for:

• Camaraderie - Day to day you can be seen working together toward a higher purpose. You like to have fun. You’re an active listener, treat people respectfully, and have a strong desire to know and help others.
• Openness - Your default is to be open. You’re willing to share information, understand other perspectives, and consider new possibilities. You’re curious, ask open questions, and are receptive to thoughts and feedback from others.
• Grit - You demonstrate grit by having the courage to commit and persevere. You’re committed, earnest, and dive in to get the job done well with a positive attitude.
• Integrity - Simply put, do what you say and say what you’ll do. You’re honest and forthright, have a strong moral compass, and strive to match your words with your actions while leading by example. 
• Simplicity - Be like Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.”

Qualifications

• Minimum of 10+ years of experience leading and scaling teams in People/HR functions
• Proven track record in global talent acquisition, people systems and operations 
• Experience in identifying and leveraging new talent market areas
• Strong executive presence and ability to influence at all levels of the organization
• Expertise in employer branding and internal communications
• Strategic thinker with the ability to translate vision into actionable plans
• Experience with HR analytics and data-driven decision making
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills
• Bachelor’s degree required; Master’s degree in HR, Business, or related field preferred

The base wage range for this position based in our New York City Office is targeted at $285,000.00 - $325,000.00 per year.