Director, People

The role

The Director of People will build and manage all aspects of the HR function. This includes performance management, compensation and benefits, employee development, compliance, and culture.

What you will do

• Design and lead all facets of the People function
• Coach and develop employees
• Partner with leadership on org design and role clarity
• Coach managers and build leadership development
• Serve as a partner to founders and managers on employee relations
• Refine and run performance management cycles
• Build a leveling framework and career ladders
• Design total rewards strategy including compensation philosophy and benchmarking
• Lead benefits and leave policy design
• Build dashboards and run reports using HRIS/AI

Required qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive HR experience
• At least 5 years of experience as the primary HR point-of-contact within a high-growth company
• Real employee relations experience
• Comfortable in a spreadsheet to build compensation or leveling analysis
• Designed performance, compensation, and leveling programs from scratch
• Use AI tools to move faster and think better

Nice to have

• Experience in the tech industry
• Led or was an early member of the people function at a venture-backed startup, ideally through the Series B to C or D stretch
• Came up through people operations, moved into HR business partnership, or vice-versa
• Experience as the first people hire at a company that scaled past 150
• Background in fintech, B2B SaaS, or another high-growth technical environment
• Experience running people programs on Rippling
• Experience designing equity refresh programs
• A creative streak for culture and employee engagement programming

Benefits

• Medical, Dental, Vision; basic medical plans 100% covered
• Flexible PTO
• $30/day Lunch allowance when working from the office
• 12 weeks parental leave
• Commuter benefits; employer-sponsored
• Phone/internet stipend
• WFH stipend
• Student loan repayment contribution
• Lifestyle Spending stipend
• Learning & Development stipend
• Hybrid-office stocked with snacks
• Quarterly team off-sites

About the company

Method has built a way to connect to consumer financial accounts using an API. The team consists of 50+ people spread across offices in Austin, SF, New York City, and Washington D.C.