Director, Operations & Strategy (Human Capital)

OMERS • New York, NY

20h

About The Position

OMERS Direct Private Equity is seeking a Human Capital Director for its Operations & Strategy team in New York. The Director will lead human capital initiatives across the Direct Private Equity portfolio, partnering with investment teams, portfolio company boards, CEOs, CHROs, operating executives, and external advisors. The role assesses human capital opportunities and risks during diligence, develops post-close talent and organization plans, and helps portfolio companies strengthen leadership, organizational effectiveness, culture, incentives, succession, employee development, and change management.

Working with operating partners, investment professionals, non-executive board directors, and portfolio company leaders, the Director will support strategic and operational improvements in talent strategy. The position calls for a commercially minded human capital leader who understands how talent and organizational design contribute to value creation and can influence senior leaders in a partnership-oriented environment.

Requirements

• 10+ years of relevant experience in human capital, talent, organization effectiveness, executive search, leadership advisory, management consulting, private equity operations, and/or senior HR leadership.
• Experience working with private equity-backed, founder-led, mid-market, lower-mid-market, and high-growth companies, including organic growth and M&A.
• Ability to advise CEOs, CHROs, boards, and senior investors on leadership, talent, organization, and culture topics and influence without direct reporting lines.
• Track record of translating human capital insights into measurable value creation outcomes.
• Collaborative, humble, and partnership-oriented, with high integrity and strong judgment.
• Intellectually curious and comfortable learning across industries and business models.
• Low ego, high ownership, and highly responsive.
• Able to operate strategically in the boardroom and practically alongside management teams.
• Comfortable constructively challenging the status quo and influencing senior leaders through insight, credibility, and partnership.
• Passion for building enduring businesses through great leadership, strong teams, and effective organizations.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting M&A, post-merger integration, and carve-outs is highly valuable.

Responsibilities

• Partner with operating and deal leaders and portfolio company leadership teams to identify and execute human capital initiatives that support value creation, growth, and operational performance.
• Develop tailored human capital value creation plans aligned with portfolio companies’ investment theses, strategic priorities, and stages of ownership.
• Advise CEOs, CHROs, and boards on organization design, leadership effectiveness, succession planning, incentive alignment, culture, and change management.
• Support portfolio companies through growth, transformation, acquisition integration, leadership transitions, and strategic repositioning.
• Create reusable human capital playbooks, tools, and best practices while adapting them to each company’s context.
• Lead or support human capital diligence for prospective investments, assessing management teams, organization structure, leadership depth, culture, talent risks, compensation, and HR capabilities.
• Translate diligence findings into investment implications, value creation opportunities, risk mitigation plans, and post-close priorities.
• Partner with investment professionals and advisors to incorporate human capital considerations into underwriting and investment committee materials.
• Develop 100-day and longer-term human capital action plans for new investments.
• Assess portfolio company senior leadership teams and identify gaps, development needs, and succession priorities.
• Build and maintain relationships with executive search firms, leadership advisory firms, compensation consultants, interim executives, and functional experts.
• Support executive hiring, onboarding, assessment, and succession for key portfolio company leadership and non-executive director roles.
• Help portfolio companies improve performance management, leadership development, workforce planning, and retention of critical talent.
• Support cultural assessment and culture-scaling efforts, particularly in founder-led, carve-out, high-growth, or acquisition-oriented businesses.
• Help portfolio companies build flexible, fit-for-purpose HR functions suited to their scale, complexity, and strategic ambition.
• Identify common human capital themes across the portfolio and develop scalable approaches to address them.
• Facilitate connections among portfolio company leaders to share best practices and lessons learned.
• Represent the Operations & Strategy team as a trusted human capital advisor to internal stakeholders and external partners.
• Contribute to the broader Direct Private Equity value creation agenda alongside colleagues focused on strategy, operations, digital, finance, commercial excellence, procurement, and other functional areas.

Benefits

• Potential eligibility for an annual Incentive Award under the Short-term Incentive plan.
• Potential eligibility to participate in the Long-Term Incentive plan, if applicable.
• Group benefits and retirement plans.
• Employee Resource Groups with executive leader sponsorship.
• Purpose@Work committee and employee recognition programs.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed