Director of People Operations
Company: Equity Methods
Location: Scottsdale
Posted on: January 22, 2023
Job Description:
At Equity Methods, human capital is at the center of everything
we do. Were looking for a senior manager or director-level leader
with expertise in talent acquisition, employee experience, career
development and employee relations, and compensation and benefits.
By way of background, Equity Methods itself is in the business of
people. We are a national consulting firm specializing in all
aspects of compensation, from upfront strategy design to downstream
accounting. We serve 40 of the Fortune 100 clients and over 1,000
publicly traded and pre-IPO clients. We are rated and a .This is an
exciting opportunity because at our size of approximately 100
professionals, you will be creating the foundations for our next
wave of scaling. Our scaling journey hinges on the quality of our
people, which this role will directly influence.Success Objectives
of this Role
- Develop effective sourcing strategies that prioritize long-run
fit over volume
- Sterling recruiting experience that meets the needs and
constraints of the hiring managers
- Trust and open dialogue with managers as their lead HR business
partner
- New hire integration process that achieves rapid culture
integration and cohort mixing
- Improved career track clarity of associates
- Effective utilization and improvement to learning management
processes
- Acute understanding of the economic and business realities of
the firmDaily and Weekly ResponsibilitiesTalent Acquisition
- Lead a nimble sourcing team and collaborate with our hiring
managers to identify and screen candidates by exhibiting an acute
listening ear to the skills and competencies that are successful at
EM.
- Drive growth in EMs brand in its respective labor markets (in
collaboration with our marketing function) through the effective
and on-brand use of social media, events, and thought
leadership.
- Implement and manage novel strategies to identify outstanding
passive candidates.Employee Experience
- Support the new hire onboarding process to facilitate rapid
cultural integration and cohort mixing.
- Enhance career path clarity and culture integration by
establishing customized journeys with each associate and
maintaining a regular meeting cadence with each person.
- Originate and execute evergreen and one-time initiatives that
enhance the employee experience in a way that complements the
culture and ethos of the firm.Learning Management
- Provide leadership and ongoing maintenance in learning and
development initiatives, including building out the firms LMS,
managing content, and tracking utilization.Compensation and
Benefits
- Project manage compensation cycles and assist in how we
communicate total rewards.
- Support the annual insurance analysis, review of the 401(K)
process, and other benefits areas.
- Drive and support compensation modeling and analysis
projects.Strategic
- Contribute to the growth of the People function by hiring,
designing new processes, absorbing existing processes, and
successfully driving special projects that arise from time to
time.
- Nuture relationships across the leadership team via deep
listening, tight collaboration, and a keen understanding of the
firms strategy and how talent is a core ingredient to the
strategy.
- Execture ad hocinitiatives with exceptional attention to detail
and understanding of the big picture.
- Effectivelysupport internal and external reporting initiatives
across the people function.
- Refine, implement, and apply best practices for employee
development and performance, and assisting with employee corrective
action where necessary.Basic Qualifications
- Minimum 8 years of progressively higher responsibility in an HR
role
- Direct exposure to the talent acquisition process
- Efficiency and proficiency with common software tools,
including MS Office, applicant tracking systems (EM uses Jobvite),
LinkedIn, job boards, and HR software tools
- Strong written and oral communication skills (e.g., typo-free
drafting, precision in messaging, and attention to detail)
- Preferred: exposure to a professional services or human
capital-centric environmentBehavioral Characteristics
- Ability to understand and adapt to the needs, constraints, and
competing priorities of hiring managers and directors through
flexibility, deep listening, and customization in approach.
- Resourceful and proactive in formulating creative strategies
that are in keeping with the firms ethos and values.
- Effective in a culture that has distributed decision-making and
fluid roles and responsibilities. As a professional services firm,
business unit leaders are heavily involved in all aspects of firm
operations, which will require the successful candidate to maintain
a highly collaborative approach and excel even when where there
isnt a single decision owner.
- Consistently exhibits a service-oriented, internal client
approach. As a consulting firm, our processes are geared toward
making the lives of our staff easier so they can serve clients
better.
- Comfort operating in a fast-paced, high-growth environment with
low to moderate levels of structure.More About Equity MethodsEquity
Methods serves a diverse clientele from dozens of Fortune 500 firms
to early-stage pre-IPO firms. We have served 40 Fortune 100 firms
all the way to early-stage venture-backed organizations. We are
rated when benchmarked against some of the largest financial
institutions in the country. We offer a diverse array of services
that solve mission-critical priorities within corporate accounting
and human resources functions.As the director of our people
operations, you will be enabling the career paths and development
opportunities of countless people. Youll be doing so in an
organization that operates at the top of its industry and has a
track record of producing world-class experts and practitioners. We
combine the best of a large professional services firm with the
best of an entrepreneurial culture whereby even early-career
associates can make outsized contributions. We have consistently
been rated a .
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