Director of People Operations
Tava Health
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Salt Lake City • Utah • 🇺🇸 United States
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Lead
About the role
- Own the People function end-to-end, designing a lean operating model that scales with the business without unnecessary complexity or headcount.
- Own and continuously improve the People tech stack and workflows (HRIS/ATS and related tools) to keep operations clean, reliable, and low-friction.
- Set clear priorities and strong defaults that guide day-to-day people decisions and reduce ambiguity for managers and leaders.
- Own and continuously improve how we attract, identify, and hire high-quality talent.
- Partner with hiring managers to define what “great” looks like for roles and translate that into clear hiring criteria that improves decision discipline.
- Ensure strong onboarding that accelerates productivity, reduces early attrition, and clearly communicates expectations, culture, and how employees succeed at Tava.
- Own the performance management approach, including review cycles and ongoing feedback, ensuring issues are surfaced and addressed early.
- Equip managers to lead effectively by setting clear expectations, giving direct feedback, and building the skills and frameworks needed to coach, mentor, and develop their teams.
Requirements
- Experience leading and scaling People Operations in a startup or high-growth environment, partnering with executives on high-stakes decisions and tradeoffs.
- Entrepreneurial, proactive, and pragmatic, with a willingness to both chart strategy and roll up your sleeves to deliver results.
- Strong business judgment; metrics-oriented and hypothesis-driven, with a focus on outcomes over activity.
- Direct, thoughtful communicator, capable of challenging leaders with a clear, data-informed business case.
- Highly organized, data- and process-driven, and comfortable building structure in an ambiguous, resource-limited environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills; proven ability to navigate organizational dynamics with judgment and discretion—understanding incentives, aligning stakeholders, and coaching managers and employees to do the same.
Benefits
- Competitive salary and stock options (so you share in the company’s success).
- Fully-covered medical and dental premiums for you and your family, plus voluntary insurance options.
- Free, generous Tava mental health benefit — of course!
- Monthly HSA contributions for qualifying enrolled employees.
- Generous PTO and paid holidays.
- Paid parental leave.
- 401(k) retirement plan.
- Weekly company-paid lunch via DoorDash and a personal DashPass subscription.
- Opportunity to make a meaningful impact at a high-growth, mission-driven company.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
People OperationsHRISATSperformance managementonboardinghiring criteriadata analysismetrics-orientedprocess improvementstrategy development
Soft skills
communicationorganizational skillsinterpersonal skillsproactivepragmaticbusiness judgmentthoughtful communicationcoachingmentoringproblem-solving