CareMessage is hiring a
Director of People

Summary

The job is for a Director of People at CareMessage, a health equity organization that aims to improve healthcare access for low-income individuals. The role involves building and owning the people and HR discipline, with a focus on DEIB initiatives, employee experience, leadership and collaboration, compliance and legal matters, and remote work.

Requirements

• Process and Detail Oriented: You are able to build processes and playbooks effectively in alignment with executive team members
• Startup: You thrive in environments where there is an opportunity to deliver outsized impact with limited resources. You embrace ambiguity and accept the challenge of ‘building the plane while flying it.’
• DEIB Success: You have experience leading organizational initiatives that promoted DEIB in a tangible, measurable and meaningful way
• Fully Remote: You have experience leading People and Culture initiatives in a fully remote company before
• Values Alignment: You believe that values are more than just words on a document, and genuinely care about building a culture where people do their best work
• Strategic: You are able to think how to align your and your team’s work to the organizational long-term strategy, and keep the long-term in mind while focusing on tactical objectives. You are comfortable presenting to senior audiences and supporting team members in alignment with people managers
• Analytical/Data-Driven: You care about leveraging data and insights to define the problems that are worth solving, and tracking progress towards solving those problems
• People Leadership: You have managed people before and have been a part of developing/informing People/HR policies in some form of leadership capacity

Responsibilities

• Ensure a focus on DEIB in every single aspect of the organization’s people strategy and processes
• Harness our already strong focus and emphasis on DEIB when building out internal people-related policies while devising new ways to reinforce and improve upon this emphasis
• Drive initiatives to promote diversity, equity, and inclusion throughout the organization. Establish metrics to measure progress and hold the company accountable for its commitments
• Performance Management and Employee Growth: With a DEIB-first lens, enforce and maintain the best-in-class employee lifecycle, from L&D to performance reviews, onboarding and everything in between
• Talent Acquisition and Onboarding: With a DEIB-first lens, in partnership with People Managers, support talent acquisition efforts, including sourcing top talent, developing recruiting processes, and building a strong employer brand to attract diverse candidates
• Compensation and Benefits: With a DEIB-first lens, own the refinement and improvement of our global compensation frameworks. Serve as a key partner to the CEO, Exec Team and the Compensation Committee on our Board of Directors
• Identify and measure organizational KPIs and OKRs for our people from a DEIB-first perspective.Manage and grow our small but mighty People Team; evaluate and manage all third party People vendors and partners
• With a DEIB-first lens, work closely with our Exec Team on key People strategy questions, including organizational design, succession planning etc
• With a DEIB-first lens, work closely with our People Managers to coach them on our People policies and grow their People Management skill-sets in alignment with CareMessage’s values
• Understand and apply HR/People compliance rules and guidelines, from federal laws like HIPAA to state-specific employment laws, and everything in between

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and benefits packages
• Flexible work hours; fully remote team
• We believe in equal work for equal pay: all team members performing the same role at the same level are paid similarly, regardless of where they are in the world
• Paid parental leave for biological and adopted children
• Half-day Fridays, every Friday
• 18 paid company holidays, including a one week mid-year and one week end-of-year break
• 9 wellness days to be used for self-care- or anything that comes up in life
• 15 days of PTO
• 1-month (20 working days) paid sabbatical after the 4-year anniversary, and every 4 years thereafter
• Generous medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their families
• Health Savings Accounts and Flexible Spending Accounts
• 401k retirement plan
• Short & long-term disability insurance
• $100 per employee yearly wellness budget, with flexibility to spend on physical, emotional, and mental wellness resources
• PerkSpot: Instant access to discounts on products & services from hundreds of vendors
• Annual budget for professional and personal development (webinars, online courses, books, and more)
• Volunteerism incorporated in onboarding and encouraged on an ongoing basis