Head of People
$150,000–$250,000 year
RemoteUnited States
Job Summary
Partner with the President and executive team on org design, leadership effectiveness, talent quality, succession, and cross-functional friction. Design and protect Bizee's talent bar by building hiring standards, role scorecards, interview calibration, and decision rules to consistently identify high-caliber builders while scaling. Own the People Operating System, including workforce planning, performance cycles, manager enablement, and internal communication mechanisms that drive alignment and accountability. Lead change management for modernizing the platform, operating model, and distributed teams, while integrating culture and standards across multiple international geographies. Plan and execute the transition away from co-employment arrangements by standing up direct employment infrastructure for payroll, benefits, and compliance in multiple countries. Manage multi-state wage and hour compliance for a distributed workforce spanning nearly all 50 U.S. states.
Required Qualifications
- 10+ years of progressive experience in People, Talent, HRBP, Organizational Effectiveness, or People Operations leadership
- Experience building People systems from the ground up
- Experience in a high-growth, profitable, founder-led, PE-backed, SaaS, platform, marketplace, or tech-enabled services environment
- Strong executive judgment and the ability to operate as a true strategic partner to a President and executive team
- Proven experience with hiring systems, talent calibration, performance management, manager enablement, org design, leveling, compensation frameworks, and People Ops infrastructure
- A strong point of view on talent density, quality-of-hire, leadership standards, and what it takes to build a high-performance company
- Strong operator instincts: structured, practical, clear, and biased toward action
- High EQ and high backbone: able to coach leaders, challenge assumptions, handle sensitive issues, and create clarity without adding drama or bureaucracy
- Strategic and hands-on: able to advise the executive team in the morning and fix an onboarding workflow in the afternoon
- Business-first orientation: understands revenue, margin, productivity, execution, and the tradeoffs of scaling a profitable company
- Low-drama, high-signal communication style: brings facts, judgment, candor, and calm to complex situations
- Culture carrier: protects what makes Bizee special while raising the performance bar
- Comfort operating in ambiguity and building while the business is moving fast
- Strong written communication skills and the ability to turn messy organizational issues into simple plans and operating mechanisms
- Demonstrated experience managing a multi-state U.S. workforce (ideally 40+ states) that includes both exempt and non-exempt employees, with working knowledge of state-by-state wage and hour variation and how to operationalize compliance without adding unnecessary drag
- Experience leading or partnering with teams in multiple countries, with a track record of integrating culture, standards, and management practices across borders rather than running parallel, disconnected functions
- Direct experience transitioning a workforce out of a co-employment/PEO model, including standing up in-country or in-state direct employment infrastructure (payroll, benefits, statutory compliance) and managing the change process for affected employees and managers
- Ability to confirm that you are authorized to work in the U.S.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in a high-growth, profitable, founder-led, PE-backed, SaaS, platform, marketplace, or tech-enabled services environment
- Managing a multi-state U.S. workforce (ideally 40+ states)
- Experience leading or partnering with teams in multiple countries
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