About Rippling
Rippling is the first way for businesses to manage all of their HR & IT—payroll, benefits, computers, apps, and more—in one unified workforce platform.
By connecting every business system to one source of truth for employee data, businesses can automate all of the manual work they normally need to do to make employee changes. Take onboarding, for example. With Rippling, you can just click a button and set up a new employees’ payroll, health insurance, work computer, and third-party apps—like Slack, Zoom, and Office 365—all within 90 seconds.
Based in San Francisco, CA, Rippling has raised $700M from the world’s top investors—including Kleiner Perkins, Founders Fund, Sequoia, and Bedrock—and was named one of America’s best startup employers by Forbes (#12 out of 500).
About the Role
At Rippling, people are at the heart of our business and culture. Our People team crafts the framework that helps this company deliver the career journeys for those who join the company. We do this by creating world-class experiences and opportunities to learn, grow, contribute and succeed while being recognized and rewarded for both internal and external impact. Rippling is a great story, and we need intelligent and creative people practices to deliver on its promise to employees and the market. At Rippling, the People team shapes our incredible work experience. We do make work magic!
As an HR Director, you will directly support our most senior executives in the Operations, General and Administrative organizations to develop and execute a talent strategy supporting the company’s ambitious growth goals.
You will be supported by a world-class People team and functional business partners to ensure excellent program design, deployment, and iterative improvement of people programs.
Our initial priorities are in the areas of manager development, performance management, organizational design, career architecture build-out, and compensation structures. Beyond that, there will be opportunities to work on leadership development initiatives and help the team expand into new international markets.
With the company having tripled its headcount last year and forecast to continue to grow this year, there is an excellent opportunity for impact. You will join an HR function that is also in a build mode and racing to get ahead of the needs of the business on the people front. It’s an exciting opportunity to lead and learn in a fast-paced setting with a group of smart and passionate people! The role is both strategic and hands-on - a true mid-stage, tech, hyper-growth HR opportunity.
About the Team
The People team supports the company by creating compelling employee experiences, opportunities for development, recognition, and rewards for all of its employees. Our team is primarily seated in Rippling’s office sites in San Francisco, CA, New York, NY and Bangalore, India.
Our team works extensively across functions and partners with Talent Acquisition, Finance, Legal, Immigration, and Brand teams and comprises HRBPs, Workspace Management, Compensation, Employee Experience, Learning & Development, and Global Events Management.
Over the years, our team has been instrumental in enabling Rippling’s growth, including expanding the number of Ripplers we count among us across the world today (we went from 20+ employees working in a small office in 2016 to over 1700+ employees in 2022)!
What You Will Do
- Work directly with senior leaders in Business Operations, Finance, HR/Recruiting, Legal and Corporate Development functions and their direct reports as the lead HR business partner for these organizations
- Drive implementation of career architecture and effective career conversation practices and be a thought partner/consultant for ongoing organizational design strategies and workforce planning
- Improve performance management practices within the teams by upskilling managers in early intervention performance conversations and helping leaders identify employees at risk of underperforming through metrics and behavioral assessments
- Collaborate with internal People team members and ancillary partners and stakeholders to deliver efficiently on operational needs
- May manage a small team of HR business partners
- Handle employee grievances and disputes, mitigate risk within the teams by conducting quick, thorough, fair, and impartial investigations
- Leverage data and insights gleaned from exit interviews, employee engagement surveys, upward feedback, etc. to support employee development and enhance job satisfaction
- Support the teams in their hiring needs, compensation reviews, and learning program designs
- Be a hands-on facilitator when needed
- Create a culture that insists on exceeding expectations and delivering value
- As needed, be an advisor / collaborator for product development teams
What You Will Need
- At least 8 years of progressive experience in HR roles
- A minimum of a bachelor’s degree in human resources, business administration, organizational design, psychology, or similar, equivalent, work experience (bonus points for a master’s degree in any of these!)
- Strong facilitation and negotiation skills
- Excellent oral and written communication skills
- Experience in high-growth tech environments or similar
- Team development skills: the ability to set a roadmap and goals for a team, delegate intelligently, deliver frequent and transparent feedback, work with team members to grow in their careers, and ensure everyone delivers quality results
- Ability to think in front of others and be responsive to changing priorities to meet business needs
- A growth mindset and appetite to constantly keep your fingers on the pulse of emergent trends in the industry
- Great project management skills, a deep sense of accountability and ownership, an outstanding customer-centric orientation
- Strong business acumen and numeracy skills
- Knowledge of labor laws and regulations
If you don’t meet all of the requirements listed here, we still encourage you to apply. No job description is perfect, and we might find an even more suitable opportunity that matches your skills and experience.
Rippling is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and do not discriminate based on race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, sexual orientation, veteran or military status, or any other legally protected characteristics. Rippling is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for candidates with disabilities who need assistance during the hiring process. To request a reasonable accommodation, please email accommodations[at]rippling.com.
We are committed both to the health of our employees and to promoting a safe and collaborative workplace, and vaccinations are the best way to end the COVID-19 pandemic and to protect our community. In the U.S., where permitted under federal and state law, all offers of employment will be conditioned upon new hires providing proof of vaccination prior to their start date, unless the individual qualifies for an accommodation. For all other locations, vaccinations are strongly encouraged.
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