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Ivo · 1 day ago

Head of People

San Francisco Bay Area

Full-time

Onsite

Lead/Staff, Director/Executive

$190K/yr - $230K/yr

5+ years exp

Ivo is a fast-growing AI legal tech company seeking its first Head of People to support and grow their team. This role will focus on all facets of people and culture, including hiring, onboarding, and employee development, while also challenging the status quo in team building and operations.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)LegalLegal Tech

H1B Sponsored

Responsibilities

Help us scale our headcount

Initially, the primary focus of this role will be helping us to hire the team to get us to the next growth milestone. This means both sourcing and recruiting exceptional candidates, but also helping us build frameworks to help us source candidates at scale

Managing interview processes, including ensuring that hiring managers are supported throughout all steps of the hiring funnel, from scheduling interviews, to collecting feedback and finalizing decision criteria

Supporting hiring managers with logistics and decisions relating to making offers to candidates, including providing benchmarking data (internal and external)

Evaluate Ivo’s current people operations tech stack and headcount / team composition and help the VP of Operations determine the strategy and framework for growing a people operations team to support Ivo employees and candidates over the next 12–24 months

Manage all stages of candidate onboarding, from offer acceptance to the end of their ramp period

Be the custodian of Ivo’s brand within the hiring market - help us build a public profile that helps articulate to candidates and prospective candidates why Ivo is such a great place to work

Help team leaders develop frameworks and models for evaluating employee performance and supporting the growth and development of employees through regular promotion cycles

Identify and articulate key qualities or attributes that distinguish high performers within Ivo, as a way of benchmarking and levelling performance within the org

As we expand to new regions and markets, help us hire teams and build offices in new locations. Once these teams are built, support their development

Help the leadership determine the right composition of these new regional teams, including size and ideal candidate profiles

Partner with the Finance and Operations teams to develop headcount plans aligned with financial targets and hiring velocity

Assist the finance team to monitor compensation budgets, bonus and commission planning and calculations, hiring costs, and organizational structure to ensure efficient scaling

Ensure hiring plans are closely connected with revenue, runway, and Ivo’s key metrics

Oversee state and federal people operations / HR compliance, including training, L&D requirements etc

Manage processes for employee communications and suggestions

Qualification

People operations experienceRecruiting functions developmentTeam managementPerformance evaluation frameworksHeadcount planningPragmatismAgencyGrowth mindset

Required

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, to help them build and grow their teams and their individual direct reports

Experience with creating growth and levelling frameworks

You are comfortable being both a builder and an operator - you want to help build teams to scale, but you're also ready to do the work and support other leaders yourself

Pragmatism: you know when to be scrappy and when to introduce structure, and how to work with leaders in the business to help them determine when either approach makes sense

Agency: You operate as an owner. You naturally take accountability for your role and your function and you don't need to wait to be told do do something

Growth mindset: You come to the conversation with solutions, not just problems. You're curious to understand the specific challenges we face and ready to help us solve them with a first-principles based approach

Excitement at the prospect of joining a fast-growing company with potential to change the way companies operate their businesses

Benefits

Competitive compensation, equity, and benefits, with the opportunity to grow into a VP-track role as the company scales.

We offer relocation assistance and visa/green card sponsorship where applicable.

Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans for you and your family.

Company

Ivo

Glassdoor2.4

Ivo provides AI-powered contract review solutions, automating analysis, redlining, and compliance for legal teams.

Founded in 2021

San Francisco, California, USA

51-200 employees

https://www.ivo.ai

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