People Lead

12 hours, 58 minutes ago
Full-time
Lead
Operations
Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs

Vannevar Labs is a defense company that combines top engineering talent with decades of mission experience to deliver state-of-the-art technology to those in need. They specialize in a foreign text workflow platform, Decrypt, designed for national secu...

Aerospace & Defense
11-50
$87M raised

Description

  • Partner with the executive team and functional leaders on org design, workforce planning, and leadership needs.
  • Clarify hiring standards, promotion expectations, and talent bar across teams.
  • Design and evolve the company’s performance management philosophy.
  • Coach managers on setting expectations, giving direct feedback, handling difficult conversations, and addressing issues early.
  • Build manager habits and operating cadences that reinforce high standards without unnecessary process.
  • Lead decisions related to compensation, promotions, retention, and exits for top performers.
  • 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 and people processes that improve business performance without slowing the company down.

Requirements

  • Experience helping scale a high-performing company through rapid growth, such as from roughly 200 to 500+ employees.
  • Significant experience coaching managers through performance management and difficult personnel decisions.
  • Experience personally leading employee investigations, complex offboardings, and sensitive employee relations situations.
  • Ability to judge when to introduce process and when to keep things lightweight.
  • Trusted by both executives and individual contributors.
  • Exceptional judgment, discretion, and emotional intelligence.
  • Commitment to building a culture of high performance and addressing hard conversations directly.
  • Ability to move comfortably between strategic leadership discussions and hands-on operational work.

Benefits

  • Health, dental, and vision insurance.
  • Remote-friendly work with WeWork access.
  • Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide time off at the end of each year.
  • 401(k) match.
  • Lifestyle and wellbeing stipends.
  • Salary top-up during military reserve duty.
  • Fully paid parental leave.
  • Child and pet care reimbursement during travel.

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