What you’ll do:
We are looking to hire an experienced Chief People Officer who will build and implement the systems and processes necessary to support our rapidly growing company. As the team and company ambassador for Human Resources, Talent Acquisition, and MemSQL for Good, our Chief People Officer will be a vital and strategic leader within the organization and will enjoy interacting with employees of all levels from interns to the executive team. As we embark upon a stage of rapid growth, our Chief People Officer will have the drive and experience to nurture and improve our workforce as well as be an active member of our leadership team.
What we’re looking for:
- Culture & Connection: Amplify our core values and build employee connections; keeping our people informed, engaged, and inspired.
- Diversity & Inclusion: Support the MemSQL for Good, our community responsibility, equality, diversity and inclusion initiatives. Foster an equal, diverse, inclusive, and fun work environment.
- Professional Development: Refine our approach to professional development and build on existing efforts to create a program that is embraced by employees.
- Talent Acquisition: Support Talent Acquisition by refining strategy, enhancing processes, and improving experiences to accelerate the hiring of top talent.
- HR Systems & Metrics: Design HR frameworks and systems that meet the needs of a rapidly changing and growing company.
- Performance Management: Continue to develop a performance-based culture focused on setting measurable objectives, driving improvements to performance and process, engendering accountability, and delivering consistent feedback.
- People Analytics: Own and drive a metrics-based framework to understand trends, challenges, and opportunities within the organization, and translate those insights into actionable measures, tied to key performance indicators.
- Operational Excellence: Develop best-practice operational mindset and processes both within the People Operations team and in its interactions with other teams across the organization.
- Strategic Planning: Work closely with senior executives and Finance on strategic planning as relates to people (e.g., changes to compensation, workforce management, offshoring/outsourcing, headcount planning, etc.) and drive implementation of plans throughout the year.
- Team Leadership: Coach, mentor, and develop individuals on the People Operations team, and continue to elevate the organization to perform at a world-class level.
- Senior Corporate Leadership: Be a visible member of the executive team and a trusted advisor to departmental and operational leaders at all levels in the company as we build, align, energize, and retain our high performing organizations.
General Requirements
- Master’s or other advanced degree or equivalent experience (e.g., organization development, management consulting) required.
- 10+ years of progressive experience in a leadership/managerial capacity with a significant focus on HR.
- Experience working at technology start-ups; working knowledge of scaling organizations from start-up to mid-size preferred.
- Reputation as a strong, decisive, results-oriented HR leader with a strong understanding of the business.
About MemSQL
MemSQL is The No-Limits Database™ powering modern applications and analytical systems with a cloud-native, scalable architecture for maximum ingest and query performance at the highest concurrency. MemSQL envisions a world where every business can make decisions in real time and every experience is optimized through data.
Global enterprises use the MemSQL distributed database to easily ingest, process, analyze, and act on data in order to thrive in today’s insight-driven economy. MemSQL is optimized to run on any public cloud or on-premises with commodity hardware. Visit memsql.com or follow us @memsql.
Consistent with our commitment to diversity & inclusion, we value individuals with the ability to work on diverse teams and with a diverse range of people.
To all recruitment agencies: MemSQL does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to MemSQL employees. MemSQL is not responsible for any fees related to unsolicited resumes and will not pay fees to any third-party agency or company that does not have a signed agreement with the Company.