Head of People Operations

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $170k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👥 People Operations

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Skylight

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏛️ Government

Consulting • Government • Technology

Skylight is a digital consultancy using design and technology to help agencies deliver better public services. With a focus on modernizing government services through human-centered design and lean-agile engineering, Skylight empowers public servants to enhance their capabilities in the digital era. Combining government and commercial expertise, the company is dedicated to solving the toughest digital challenges faced by agencies and fostering a culture of innovation and continuous improvement in the public sector.

📋 Description

• Lead people operations across the company to support attracting, empowering, and retaining public interest technologists • Manage the talent life cycle from workforce planning through onboarding • Lead the Head of Recruiting and grow the talent function • Assess organizational talent needs and build and maintain a strategic talent pipeline • Manage onboarding and offboarding processes • Ensure labor-law awareness and compliance; lead employee relations, including sensitive and legal matters • Conduct compensation and benefits benchmarking and partner on payroll functions • Manage and optimize the Rippling HRIS • Create organizational charts and define position responsibilities • Own company-wide employee engagement programs • Manage performance management, including performance planning, evaluations, promotions, and continuous feedback • Support and improve the professional capability framework • Discuss career-pathing with high-potential employees and team leaders • Organize and oversee internal and external training programs • Design culture, engagement, and retention programs • Create and implement succession plans • Partner with business unit leaders and the executive team to align people strategy with business needs • Build fair, consistent people practices that broaden talent pools and reduce evaluation bias • Implement data-driven improvements to people operations and talent outcomes • Drive adoption of emerging people-operations best practices

🎯 Requirements

• Experience as a people operations leader or similar role • Experience scaling people operations in a fast-growing organization • Demonstrated experience building high-performing, mission-driven workplace cultures where employees feel respected, supported, and empowered to do their best work • Sound judgment balancing transparency and visibility with confidentiality, privacy, and risk • Experience recruiting design and technology professionals, such as product managers, product designers, user researchers, content strategists, software engineers, and DevOps engineers • Experience working with remote teams • Awareness of relevant labor laws and how to comply with them • Ability to operate at strategic and tactical levels • Excellent interpersonal, motivational, and relationship management skills • Organized, detail-oriented, and quality-minded • Superior written and oral communication skills • Strong data and analytical skills • Comfortable navigating Human Resources Information Systems, Applicant Tracking Systems, and tools that support performance management and other HR functions • Passionate about creating better public outcomes through great government services • A mindset and work approach that aligns with our core values • Ability to travel for work from time to time • All work must be conducted within the U.S. • You must be legally authorized to work in the U.S. now and in the future without sponsorship • As a government contractor, you may be required to obtain a public trust or security clearance • You may be required to successfully complete a company background check • Experience with Rippling or a comparable HRIS • Experience in a government contracting, consulting, or professional services environment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance • Short-term and long-term disability insurance • Life and AD&D insurance • Dependent care FSA, healthcare FSA, health savings account • Dollar-for-dollar 401(k) match up to 10% of your salary with no vesting period • Paid time off, including 20 vacation days, 11 federal holidays, and flexible sick leave • Up to 12 weeks paid time off for all eligible new birth, adoption, or foster parents • Performance rewards, including annual salary increase, annual performance bonus, spot bonuses, and stock options • Business development / sales bonuses • Referral bonuses • Annual $2,000 allowance for professional development • Annual $750 allowance for tech-related purchases • Annual swag budget of $100 to display your Skylight pride with some merchandise (hoodies, hats, and more) • Flexible, remote-friendly work environment • An environment that empowers you to unleash your superpowers for public good

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