Head of People
GiveDirectly
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Remote
Location: New York • United States
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Salary
💰 $154,500 - $200,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Design and run the human systems that power our mission
- Connect talent to organizational performance in a global, distributed context
- Serve as both architect and hands-on operator across talent acquisition, org design, leadership development, performance, rewards, HR operations, and employee relations
- Lead on sensitive personnel matters with discretion and fairness
- Partner with the CEO/COO and executives on org design, succession, and leadership effectiveness
- Improve HRIS/workforce tools; standardize core processes; ensure compliant, efficient operations across countries
Requirements
- Strong business acumen with a track record of treating the People function as a driver of company/organizational outcomes
- Demonstrated success building simple, scalable systems (hiring, performance, rewards, workforce models, HRIS) across multiple countries and regulatory contexts
- Depth in sensitive employee relations, risk management, and safeguarding across very diverse contexts and cultural settings
- Recruits, calibrates, and develops senior talent; sets a high bar; builds a small, high-leverage team and operating cadence that scales
- Structured, analytical thinker who disaggregates problems, designs from first principles, iterates quickly, and measures results
- Comfort moving between private sector and NGO settings and between different org sizes
Benefits
- A supportive team that works hard and cares hard
- A robust health benefits plan (exact details will vary by country)
- Flexible paid time off that staff is encouraged to take
- Allowances for desk set-up and learning and development
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
HRIStalent acquisitionorganizational designleadership developmentperformance managementemployee relationsrisk managementworkforce modelscompliancescalable systems
Soft Skills
business acumendiscretionfairnessanalytical thinkingproblem disaggregationiterative designresults measurementteam buildingleadership effectivenesscultural sensitivity