VP of People

🕒 October 5

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $227k - $250k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👥 People Operations

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Help Scout

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

☁️ SaaS

SaaS • Customer Support

Help Scout is a customer support platform that offers a range of tools to empower teams and enhance the customer experience. The platform includes features such as a shared inbox, live chat, self-service knowledge base, and proactive messaging to help teams deliver personalized and efficient support. Help Scout emphasizes the importance of a personal touch in customer service, integrating AI tools in a supportive way rather than allowing AI to dominate the customer experience. It caters to a variety of industries with a focus on maintaining outstanding support that prioritizes both the team and the customer.

📋 Description

• Lead the People team across the employee lifecycle, from recruiting and onboarding to people and organizational development • Oversee global compensation, organizational design, performance management, employee retention, and engagement programs • Maintain a robust, scalable, values-driven, and accountable remote culture • Own systems supporting remote work and collaboration • Define and measure the health of People programs and share progress with leadership and the business • Use data to guide decisions, challenge assumptions, and adjust strategy • Build and execute talent strategy, including recruiting strategy and partnership with hiring managers • Apply an AI lens to People team operations and help team members leverage AI effectively • Align People programs with Help Scout’s strategic narrative and business needs • Establish planning, prioritization, and execution rhythms for the People team • Report to Shawna Fisher, COO

🎯 Requirements

• Served as a people leader at a scaling B2B SaaS company in the $30M–$150M ARR range • Led organizations through a growth stage and understands how to get people thinking differently in a changing environment • Hands-on experience as an HRBP • Genuine point of view on how AI can advance organizations’ people practices • Creative approach to people and people strategies • High standards and ability to communicate clearly and empathetically in a remote setting • Comfortable shipping, measuring, and adjusting while balancing performance goals and long-term vision • Must already be authorized to work from your home country • Help Scout does not sponsor visas

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and an internal, transparent salary formula based on market data • Flexible time off – you choose the holidays and vacations that make sense for you • 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, including adoption and foster care • A home office stipend to help you get set up and productive • A co-working stipend up to $300 a month if you choose to work out of your house • A yearly professional development stipend of $1,800 to help you grow in your craft • Top tier health insurance for you and your dependents if you’re in the U.S. or Canada