Head of People

Summary

Join Rize Education as their Head of People and play a pivotal role in achieving ambitious growth goals. You will be responsible for employee hiring, retention, and professional growth, working directly with the founders to shape the People strategy and organizational design. This role requires building a scalable organizational structure and People team, ensuring employee satisfaction and peak performance. Responsibilities encompass hiring process management, organizational planning, employee coaching, compensation and performance reviews, and other crucial company functions. The ideal candidate is a strategic partner, motivator, and leader, comfortable building a people function from the ground up and prioritizing meritocracy.

Requirements

• 7+ years total experience in a related field
• You have worked at a company of 50-500 people and have experience with helping that team grow
• You have experience working with individuals to improve their skillet (management training is a bonus)
• You have run hiring processes at scale
• You are excited about improving employee engagement and promoting a collaborative work environment
• You detest workplace politics and are hoping to build a company culture of high autonomy, individual responsibility, and merit-based hiring and promotions
• You seek organizational structures that reduce emphasis on meetings and committees
• You are obsessed with solving problems, and have a proven track record applying general frameworks to provide individualized solutions to a wide range of problems
• You exhibit a high standard of personal accountability and you are a doer
• You are seeking a high degree of autonomy, ownership, and growth in your next role
• You are low ego and humble; you are willing to work with and learn from others

Responsibilities

• Lead all hiring processes and ensure we are keeping an extremely high talent bar across all areas of the company
• Periodically re-evaluate our organizational structure to ensure it optimizes company growth & optimizes performance
• Create a transparent system of growth opportunities employees can work toward (e.g., compensation, management, title, etc.) with clear benchmarks. Work with managers to implement this system effectively with reports
• Work with managers to ensure they are effectively handling all aspects of their jobs and growing in their effectiveness (you will have a budget available related to bringing in advisors to help with this)
• Run and iterate on the company compensation and review processes to ensure employees are happy and receiving updates on how they are tracking toward their growth benchmarks
• Ensure Rize is consistently on track toward profitability and fast revenue growth while still paying team members the maximum we can afford to

Preferred Qualifications

Preference for the ability to come into the NYC office for roughly 50%+ of work days (we just signed a lease for a new office in Flatiron!)

Benefits

• Salary: $175,000 - $240,000, depending on experience
• Potential for incentive compensation
• Equity: 6,000 - 8,000 shares