Pavilion

Director of People

Pavilion

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Massachusetts • New York • United States

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Salary

💰 $135,000 - $150,000 per year

Job Level

Lead

About the role

  • Own Pavilion’s hiring philosophy and maintain an uncompromising bar for talent quality.
  • Design and continuously refine structured, high-signal interview processes.
  • Partner with hiring managers to ensure every hire is intentional, accretive, and aligned with Pavilion’s standards.
  • Personally lead or tightly oversee hiring for ~5–10 roles per year, including strategic backfills.
  • Hold hiring managers accountable to preparation, rigor, and decision quality.
  • Design and manage Pavilion’s performance review process, ensuring clarity, fairness, and high expectations.
  • Build clear professional development paths that help employees grow their skills, impact, and careers.
  • Support managers in delivering direct, thoughtful feedback and coaching.
  • Create systems that reward high performance while addressing underperformance decisively and humanely.
  • Act as a steward of Pavilion’s culture: high standards, hard work, mutual respect, and care for the whole person.
  • Ensure employees feel supported, challenged, and well taken care of in exchange for doing meaningful, demanding work.
  • Proactively identify friction, burnout risk, or morale issues and address them early.
  • Inject fun, connection, and humanity into the day-to-day employee experience.
  • Own planning and execution of Pavilion’s in-person team experiences, including at least one major US-based company offsite annually.
  • Design retreats that strengthen trust, alignment, and shared ambition—not just social time.
  • Own core People processes and policies with a bias toward clarity and simplicity.
  • Ensure Pavilion operates with professionalism, consistency, and legal compliance without becoming bureaucratic.

Requirements

  • 7+ years of experience in People, Talent, or Organizational Leadership roles, including ownership of hiring and performance systems.
  • Proven ability to build and maintain high hiring standards in a growing company.
  • Experience partnering closely with senior leaders and holding peers accountable.
  • Strong judgment, discretion, and emotional intelligence.
  • Comfortable operating as a hands-on individual contributor with light external leverage.
  • Bias toward clarity, directness, and action.
  • Preferred: Experience in high-performance, founder-led, or professional services / membership / SaaS environments.
Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Equity in a profitable, mission-driven company
  • Comprehensive health benefits
  • Professional development budget
  • Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
  • Access to Pavilion membership and education
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Soft Skills
emotional intelligencestrong judgmentdiscretiondirectnessaction-orientedcoachingfeedback deliveryperformance managementaccountabilityprofessional development