Talent and People Operations Manager

Christchurch based - or remote friendly with quarterly visits down South
- Bring in your passion for recruitment and rapid scaling
- Equity on offer

**Company Story**

This fast-growing start up's mission is to connect the world's parts, starting in the automotive space. They have more than tripled their team over the last 12 months and expect to double in size over the next 18 months. They have a global team spanning both Europe and Australasia.

Founded by high-caliber engineers, this company utilise bleeding-edge technology to solve challenging but exciting problems that make a huge impact in a $1.9 trillion industry.

They provide a scalable digital infrastructure solution to some of the world's largest businesses and the most exciting startups. Their solutions are integrated across hundreds of companies globally, providing the backbone for cataloguing and managing parts online.

They are continuing to build a world-class team and ensuring this is a place where people can do the best work of their lives. They are proud of the culture we've built, and their values are lived throughout every experience.

**This Role**

The Talent & People Ops Manager will be the founding People hire. You will play an essential role in helping to build a high-performing team, providing exceptional people experiences, and ultimately, helping to lead this company through their next stage of growth.

Your mission will be to build an environment and team where people do the best work of their careers. The goal is to develop the highest-performing startup team in the world.

You will report to the SVP Operations & People.

**What will you do**
- **Build out and improve our hiring and onboarding operations**. You’ll both build from the ground up and refine existing systems to hire and onboard new talent. This starts from ensuring the interview process is world-class, to how to make offers, to employment contracts, and even ensuring their first day, week and months at this company are thoughtfully designed.
- **Partner with our SVP Operations & People**. You’ll work closely with the SVP of Operations & People to collaboratively set, prioritise, and ultimately execute the strategy and key initiatives for Talent & People Ops. You will also be laying the foundations for scaling this function as growth occurs.
- **Maximise the potential of our team**. The goal is for people to do the best work of their lives at this company. You’ll be given the freedom and responsibility to identify how this can be achieved. This may include things such as developing systems for regular feedback, ensuring everyone is having impactful 1-on-1s, challenging ways of working, identifying and removing obstacles getting in the way, or crowdsourcing ideas to help people do their best work.
- **Building the systems for long-term careers**. You’ll help design and deliver the most impactful people-focused projects. This will involve helping to establish and improve how the company think about levelling, role pathing, compensation, promotions, ESOP etc. You will also actively seek out ways to understand and ensure teams are happy, engaged and motivated.
- **Team-wide meetings and office events**. You will take the lead in organising and running important team-wide events such as the quarterly Season Openers, company All-Hands, hackathons, and ensuring celebrations of birthdays and new parents are happening.
- **Assist with international expansion**. As the company expand globally, you’ll work with the SVP of Operations & People to ensure they have done everything needed to establish a local presence and hire teams in new regions.

Note: attracting, hiring and onboarding exceptional talent will be one of the biggest company priorities post-Series A, so the top two bullets will likely account for 3-4 days of your week over the first 6-9 months.

**Your Skills**
- **You have experience working in a high-performance team**. You’ll have solid experience in People Ops, People Experience or Talent Acquisition roles in high-growth and dynamic environments, ideally at a startup. You have led the design and execution of programs to nurture, develop and retain talent.
- **You can attract and hire world-class talent**. You’ll have experience in recruiting and building exceptional teams. You’ve helped hire the best of the best, either from inside a startup or at an agency supporting high-growth startups.
- **You’re a builder at heart**. You start from first principles, and even if you didn’t initially start your career in Talent or People Ops, you are familiar with building a people strategy from the ground up. You ruthlessly prioritise what’s important and then roll your sleeves up to make things happen. You have excellent communication and presentation skills to get the whole company bought in.
- **You’re a hardcore people person**. You approach things from a people-first perspective and have a strong passion for building incredible teams and provi