Vice President of People

Ivo•San Francisco, CA

6d•Onsite

About The Position

Ivo is seeking a Vice President of People to help scale and support its rapidly growing team. As the first dedicated people operations leader, this role is critical to building a high-caliber team and will oversee all aspects of people and culture, including sourcing, hiring, onboarding, employee growth, performance, and team satisfaction. The ideal candidate will challenge the status quo, think differently about scaling and supporting teams, and help define Ivo's organizational culture.

Requirements

5-10+ years of experience in operations teams, ideally with a background or experience in building recruiting functions at early-stage tech companies.
Demonstrated prior experience building people functions from scratch in high-growth startups, especially building and developing recruiting functions.
Experience managing teams, preferably in a people operations capacity.
Ability to work closely with executives and department leads across operations, marketing, GTM, and product/engineering.
Experience with creating growth and leveling frameworks.
Comfortable being both a builder and an operator.
Pragmatism: knowing when to be scrappy and when to introduce structure.
Agency: operating as an owner, taking accountability, and proactively taking initiative.
Growth mindset: coming with solutions, being curious, and using a first-principles approach.
Excitement at the prospect of joining a fast-growing company with potential to change the way companies operate their businesses.

Responsibilities

Help scale headcount by sourcing and recruiting exceptional candidates and building frameworks for scalable sourcing.
Manage interview processes, support hiring managers, and assist with offer logistics and benchmarking.
Evaluate the people operations tech stack and headcount, and help develop a strategy for growing the people operations team.
Manage all stages of candidate onboarding.
Act as the custodian of Ivo’s brand in the hiring market.
Help team leaders develop frameworks for employee performance evaluation and development.
Identify key qualities of high performers to benchmark performance within the organization.
Assist with hiring teams and building offices in new regions as the company expands.
Partner with Finance and Operations to develop headcount plans aligned with financial targets.
Assist the finance team with monitoring compensation budgets, bonus and commission planning, hiring costs, and organizational structure.
Ensure hiring plans are connected with revenue, runway, and key metrics.
Oversee state and federal people operations/HR compliance.
Manage processes for employee communications and suggestions.