Vannevar - People Lead
Requirements
• Has helped scale a high-performing company through rapid growth (for example, ~200 to 500+ employees). • Has significant experience coaching managers through performance management and difficult personnel decisions. • Has personally led employee investigations, complex offboardings, and sensitive employee relations situations. • Knows when to introduce process and when not to. • s trusted by both executives and individual contributors. • Has exceptional judgment, discretion, and emotional intelligence. • Cares deeply about building a culture of high performance rather than avoiding hard conversations. • Can move comfortably between strategic discussions with leadership and hands-on operational work.
Responsibilities
• Build a high-performance organization • Partner with exec team and functional leaders on org design, workforce planning, and leadership needs as the company scales. • Clarify hiring standards, promotion expectations, and talent bar across teams. • Design and evolve our performance management philosophy. • Coach managers to set clear expectations, give direct feedback and have hard conversations with confidence, and address issues early. • Build manager habits and operating cadences that reinforce high standards without adding unnecessary process. • Partner with leadership on compensation, promotions, and retention for top performers. • Build operational excellence • Own benefits, payroll coordination, compliance, and core people operations. • Ensure employment practices scale cleanly across a growing company. • Partner with legal counsel on investigations, employment matters, and policy development. • Build lightweight systems that make the company run better, not slower.
Benefits
• We’re proud to offer competitive benefits that support our employees. Some key highlights of our benefits package include: • Health, dental, and vision insurance • Remote friendly with WeWork access • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year • Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends • Salary top-up during military reserve duty • Fully paid parental leave • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel
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