Helpscout

VP of People

United States, Remote. Posted a month ago

The role

You will lead the people function at a remote-first company. You will manage the employee lifecycle, talent strategy, and organizational design to support scaling.

What you will do

  • Lead a team owning all aspects of the employee lifecycle
  • Manage recruiting, onboarding, people and organizational development
  • Oversee global compensation, organizational design, performance management, and employee retention
  • Maintain a robust and scalable values-driven and accountable culture
  • Own systems that support remote work and collaboration
  • Define and measure the health of people and People programs using data
  • Build and execute a talent strategy aligned with business needs
  • Apply an AI lens to how the People team works and how team members leverage AI
  • Align People programs to business needs and strategic narrative
  • Establish planning, prioritization, and execution rhythms

Required qualifications

  • Served as a people leader at a scaling B2B SaaS company in the $30M–$150M ARR range
  • Led organizations through a growth stage
  • Hands-on experience as an HRBP
  • Genuine point of view on how AI can advance organizations' people practices
  • Communicate clearly and empathetically in a remote setting
  • Authorized to work from home country

Nice to have

  • Creative in thinking about people and people strategies

Benefits

  • Competitive salary and an internal, transparent salary formula based on market data
  • Flexible time off
  • 12 weeks of fully paid parental leave for all new parents, including adoption and foster care
  • A home office stipend
  • A co-working stipend up to $300 a month
  • A yearly professional development stipend of $1,800
  • Top tier health insurance for you and your dependents if in the U.S. or Canada

Before you apply

  • Do not utilize AI assistants live on interviews
  • We do not sponsor visas
  • Teammates must already be authorized to work from their home country

About the company

Help Scout started in 2011 to provide support software that treats customers like people. It is a fully remote team of 120+ teammates.

VP of People at Helpscout | JobZoey