Head of People – Organizational Development

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in New York.

📋 Description

• Design and enhance SPUN’s organizational framework, encompassing teams, roles, reporting structures, and leadership duties.

• Anticipate future organizational competencies and develop hiring strategies at all levels.

• Evaluate organizational health and pinpoint structural, capacity, or workflow challenges.

• Collaborate with the Operations Manager on personnel policies and processes across various operating countries.

• Create operating rhythms, decision-making protocols, and planning methods for a distributed team.

• Enhance the capture and sharing of organizational knowledge across individuals, meetings, and time zones.

• Foster collaboration and seamless transitions among scientific, data science, policy, and partnership teams.

• Influence core tools and SPUN’s strategy for AI integration.

• Identify high-value AI applications along with the necessary workflows, roles, and skills.

• Promote AI literacy through training, peer learning, experimentation, and practical resources.

• Establish systems for sharing AI experiments, methodologies, and lessons learned.

• Cultivate a healthy, ambitious, and inclusive culture within a globally distributed organization.

• Create opportunities for connection across time zones, disciplines, and teams.

• Design and facilitate retreats, team meetings, and leadership events.

• Develop an onboarding program centered on SPUN’s culture and operational methods.

• Formulate strategies for recognizing team and individual achievements.

• Enhance leadership and management skills as SPUN expands.

• Implement practices for feedback, goal-setting, development discussions, and performance evaluations.

• Create progression pathways, including transitions from individual contributors to management roles.

• Identify learning and professional development opportunities.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 7 years of experience in assisting organizations to scale and cultivate culture, trust, connection, and accountability.

• Experience in organizations where team members work remotely across different time zones is preferred.

• Capability to shape strategy and develop processes, frameworks, and systems in a hands-on manner.

• A genuine curiosity about people, team dynamics, and organizational challenges.

• Ability to advise senior leaders, challenge conventional thinking, build credibility, manage sensitive information, and navigate complex interpersonal dynamics.

• Experience in leading the adoption of new tools, technologies, or methodologies, including AI.

• Understanding that sustainable change necessitates training, change management, and confidence-building.

• Excellent communication skills with scientists, data scientists, policy experts, partnership specialists, and senior leadership.

• Passion for SPUN’s mission and a drive to create organizational conditions that foster greater impact.

• Preferred: experience in a science, research, environmental, or impact-focused organization.

• Preferred: background in a globally distributed organization operating across multiple countries and employment regulations.

• Preferred: experience working with multidisciplinary teams encompassing science, policy, partnerships, and operations.

• Preferred: experience in establishing career frameworks, performance systems, or development programs from the ground up.

• Preferred: practical experience with AI tools and a keen interest in organizational transformation.

🏝️ Benefits

• Benefits that support health, well-being, personal growth, and work-life balance.

• Benefits customized to comply with local regulations across the globally distributed team.

• An inclusive environment where individuals can authentically express themselves at work.