As the Director of People you will work closely with the Senior Leadership Team and other People Leaders of Tempo to optimize the business partner, performance management, compensation, employee relations, and other people programs to achieve its long-term vision for creating an engaged, collaborative and high performance culture. We are looking for someone who can come in as a player-coach business partner to align strategies with executional goals, motivate high teams, and enable them to meet and exceed targets.
We're looking for someone who's up to the challenge to make an immediate impact to help drive and influence organizational change. You should be excited to join a globally distributed company that is growing through responsible revenue models and sustainable customer retention. This role requires someone with a strong operational mind (financial modeling experience a big plus) and who has the confidence to make lasting decisions to help us scale.
What you’ll do
Be a trusted advisor and visible member of our SLT supporting the entire company as we build, energize and retain our high performing teams
Work alongside the CHRO to strategize organizational design to map against the needs of the business and customer
Strategize, participate and oversee the recruitment efforts that enable us to find the right people for the roles by building best interviewing practices & enhancing processes
Champion and operationalize our core values and help build/maintain an awesome company culture while keeping our people informed and engaged
Develop, implement and communicate a variety of HR initiatives such as performance management, compensation benchmarking, total rewards, management training, DIBs, global mobility, etc
Build, develop, and optimize for our HR metrics and propose strategies and implement ways to continue to foster workforce management improvements
Work closely with senior leaders and the Finance team on driving forward strategic people planning initiatives such as changes to staffing forecast, headcount planning, etc
Be the voice of our people and own the employee life cycle end-to-end
Who You Are -
You’ve done this before, you’ve owned the HR function in a growing tech company and helped them scale (10+ years of HR experience, with at least 3 years in senior manager roles)
Proven leadership skills that focus on enablement, feedback, and growth including application of situational leadership
A strong desire to cultivate and produce results as a team; you lead with a cooperative mentality not with ego; you want everyone, including yourself, to do their best work
Strong knowledge of Canadian and US employment law and best practices (bonus if additional experience with EMEA particularly Nordic unions and UK)
You can think quickly on your feet, problem solve and use your judgement to know when to escalate issues
Strong analytical skills including Google Sheets, Excel, and understanding of statistical models are a big plus
Exceptional verbal and written communication as we’re a heavy async organization (remote)
Previous experience with M&A and post merger integrations an asset, especially in a private equity environment
What's In It For You (Org-wide) -
If you’re close to one of our 3 Hubs: Boston, Montreal, or Reykjavik, feel free to use the space and catch up with the local team(s)
Unlimited vacation in most of our locations!!
Great benefits including health, dental, vision and savings plan.
Perks such as training reimbursement, WFH reimbursement, and more.
Diverse and dynamic teams with challenging and exciting work.
An opportunity to have a real impact on our business.
A great range of social activities (both in person and virtual).
Optional in person meet-ups and the ability to travel to our international offices
Employee referral program
And so much more!!
Note: As our hiring teams are global, please submit your resume in English only
About the company
At Tempo we’re on a mission to help teams build better, together. We are creators of top-selling Atlassian Marketplace apps, supporting more than 29,000 customers, including a third of the Fortune 500 companies, and working with hundreds of Solutions Partners globally. Our solutions help customers orchestrate creation and delivery, so their teams can focus and optimize around their highest priorities. In 2020 and in 2021 we were named Top Atlassian Vendor and we continue to be one of the highest ranked and most heavily used solutions out there.
Our product suite has grown from our popular time-tracking solution, which launched in Iceland in 2009, to resource & capacity planning, project cost tracking, project & program management, and strategic roadmapping. In 2021, Tempo acquired Roadmunk, a roadmapping solution popular with product management teams, and ALM Works, creators of the Structure for Jira suite that delights project and program managers around the world. At the beginning of 2023 Tempo expanded its SPM suite to include LiquidPlanner’s capacity planning platform and Old Street Solutions (maker of Custom Charts).
We envision a world where everyone inside an organization works in harmony on the most impactful opportunities aligned with their mission. Come join us as we continuously innovate our award-winning products, create new solutions, and expand to new ecosystems. Are you ready to unlock the joy of building with us.
