Remote Position
[Remote] Director, People Operations and Talent Acquisition
🌍 Remote · United States
💼 Full-time
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Rasa is hiring a Director, People Operations and Talent Acquisition to lead the employee lifecycle and recruiting for its global, remote-first team. Reporting to the CEO and serving on the Executive Leadership Team, the role combines people strategy with hands-on employee relations, people operations, compliance, and hiring.
Responsibilities
- Advise the CEO and ELT on org design, workforce planning and change management, and partner on company-wide people communications
- Handle complex employee relations matters across multiple countries, including performance improvement plans, separations and terminations, working with outside counsel as needed
- Own people operations: onboarding, leave administration, the HRIS (BambooHR), the PEO relationship (Sequoia One) and multi-country compliance
- Run the performance and career framework cycle, including reviews, IC and manager career frameworks, and manager enablement
- Drive engagement and retention through pulse surveys, ELT and manager action planning, and retention strategy for key talent
- Partner with Finance on compensation benchmarking, headcount planning and people budgets, building people programs that are effective and cost-conscious
- Lead hiring across the company, including executive searches, and own the recruiting process, tools (Ashby) and hiring-manager experience
- Lead and develop the People Operations team
Skills
- We can't hire outside the USA for this role, and Rasa does not offer visa sponsorship for this position
- 8+ years in People Operations and/or Talent Acquisition, with 2+ years' experience leading both functions at a global start-up
- Hands-on technical recruiting experience, including senior and executive hires
- Experience supporting a global, distributed workforce, ideally including US multi-state and UK/EU employment practices
- A track record of handling sensitive employee relations and separations with sound judgment and discretion
- Comfortable working at both the strategic and tactical level, as an ELT member and a hands-on operator
- Proficiency with modern people tools such as an ATS (Ashby), an HRIS (Bamboo) and a PEO (Sequoia One)
- Ideally including US multi-state and UK/EU employment practices
Benefits
- Flexible hours and a dedicated remote budget
- A stipend for professional development & 6 paid education days to help you grow within your role
- Unlimited PTO + paid sick leave + paid public holidays
- A Macbook, and other tech to help you do your job
- Regular remote team events, as well as an annual company-wide offsite
- Health benefits through Sequoia One
- 401(k) contribution with up to 4% match
- Equity options
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