People Operations Lead
Sunbound
Senior Director, People & Culture
Think of Us
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Washington, DC • District of Columbia, Washington • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $150,000 - $165,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
About the role
- Architect and operationalize Think of Us’s end-to-end people function.
- Set direction while designing and implementing people strategies and infrastructure.
- Lead across all facets of People & Culture.
- Collaborate closely with the executive team to ensure future-ready people practices.
- Explore and implement innovative practices to increase capacity and improve systems.
- Align people strategies with business priorities and mission outcomes.
- Oversee HR contracts to meet People & Culture goals.
- Manage core HR functions including employee performance management, compliance, and talent development.
- Design and implement integrated talent development frameworks.
- Lead end-to-end talent acquisition function and ensure best-in-class recruitment strategies.
- Foster a culture of feedback, learning, and growth, balancing performance expectations with human-centered leadership.
Requirements
- 10+ years of progressive HR/people leadership experience
- At least 3+ years in a senior or head-of-function role
- Proven track record of designing and scaling inclusive, compliant people systems in growing or entrepreneurial environments.
- Personal or professional experience with the child welfare system or other social impact work
- Strategic HR leader aligning people systems with long-term organizational goals
- Builder’s mentality in early-stage and scaling environments
- Hands-on leader comfortable executing key initiatives
- Influential leader connecting people strategies to mission outcomes and business performance
- Inclusive culture steward embedding equity, belonging, and inclusion principles
- Committed to people development through meaningful employee performance, learning, and succession systems
- Innovation-forward exploring and adopting tools to elevate HR systems and workforce readiness.
- Skilled communicator and relationship-builder fostering trust at all levels
- Comfortable working in remote, distributed environments and leading teams through change
- Data-informed in decision-making using analytics to identify talent needs and improve people systems and culture.
Benefits
- 100% employer-paid medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees; 50% for dependents.
- Access to Talkspace for confidential therapy and mental health support.
- Short-Term Disability, Life, and AD&D Insurance included.
- Optional Long-Term Disability and Supplemental Life Insurance.
- Health Care and Dependent Care FSAs available.
- 401(k) Plan for pre-tax retirement contributions.
- Work-from-home setup stipend to optimize your workspace.
- Flexible PTO policy, plus sick leave and paid leaves of absence.
- 8 company holidays, plus three organization-wide seasonal breaks.
- $1,500 annual stipend per employee.
- Regular organization-wide learning sessions on relevant and reflective topics.
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard skills
HR managementtalent acquisitionemployee performance managementcompliancetalent developmentpeople strategiesinclusive people systemsanalyticsemployee performance systemssuccession planning
Soft skills
strategic leadershipinfluential leadershiprelationship-buildingcommunicationinnovationfeedback culturehands-on leadershipbuilder's mentalitytrust fosteringadaptability
