Vice President, People and Culture

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

📋 Description

• Design and implement a comprehensive, organization-wide talent strategy that aligns with M+R’s mission, values, business objectives, and future requirements.

• Collaborate with senior leadership to evaluate talent needs, pinpoint essential skills, and formulate strategies for attracting, retaining, developing, and deploying talent.

• Set talent priorities, workforce plans, and establish measurable objectives.

• Create and sustain leadership and talent pipelines, which include succession planning for critical and hard-to-fill positions.

• Utilize workforce and talent data, organizational insights, and industry trends to recognize risks, gaps, and opportunities.

• Lead and cultivate staffing, recruitment, and talent development teams.

• Provide guidance to senior leaders on talent management, workforce dynamics, culture, organizational effectiveness, and change management.

• Advocate for equity, inclusion, belonging, and psychological safety throughout the employee journey.

• Assess and enhance talent practices, systems, and technologies.

• Supervise talent acquisition, staffing operations, and workforce planning initiatives.

• Develop staffing models, capacity plans, talent pipelines, and workforce projections.

• Enhance recruiting strategies, strengthen the employer brand, and articulate the employee value proposition.

• Set talent acquisition metrics to enhance hiring quality, retention, candidate experience, and workforce outcomes.

• Formulate strategies for leadership development, career advancement, talent mobility, performance management, and succession planning.

• Identify future organizational capabilities and cultivate them internally.

• Implement talent review and succession planning frameworks.

• Design career pathways that promote retention, engagement, internal mobility, and long-term growth.

• Encourage continuous learning, accountability, performance, and professional development.

⛳️ Requirements

• Minimum of 15 years of progressive HR/People experience, with at least 10 years in leadership positions.

• Proven experience in developing and executing organization-wide People and Culture strategies that are aligned with business priorities.

• Proficient in areas such as talent acquisition, workforce planning, employee engagement, talent development, performance management, succession planning, and organizational effectiveness.

• Experience providing counsel to executive and senior leaders regarding people, culture, workforce, and organizational issues.

• Demonstrated capability to lead and develop high-performing People teams while creating scalable programs and processes.

• Proven track record of leading organizational change and facilitating new structures, processes, and work methodologies.

• Strong commitment to promoting equity, inclusion, belonging, and psychologically safe work environments.

• Solid business acumen and analytical abilities, including leveraging workforce data to guide decisions and assess impacts.

• Experience in managing budgets, HR technology, vendors, and external partnerships.

• Background in overseeing leadership development, career pathways, employee growth, and succession strategies.

• Proven experience leading organization-wide culture and engagement initiatives such as retreats, conferences, team-building activities, and employee events.

• Exceptional communication, relationship-building, facilitation, and influencing capabilities, combined with sound judgment and discretion.

• Experience within mission-driven, nonprofit, advocacy, or professional services organizations.

• Familiarity working in unionized environments.

• Demonstrated dedication to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging.

• Ability to work collaboratively and build trust through honesty, integrity, kindness, empathy, and authenticity.

• Sharp attention to detail and capacity to manage multiple projects and meet deadlines.

• Willingness to learn new skills and technologies.

• Ability to identify improvements and tackle potential obstacles.

• Capability to receive and implement feedback effectively.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills.

• Ability to operate within equitable and inclusive decision-making frameworks.

• Familiarity with HR and ATS systems, preferably Lever, Trakstar, and Rippling.

🏝️ Benefits

• A 36-hour workweek with half-day Fridays and flexible scheduling options.

• Three weeks of vacation and 17 paid sick days.

• Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision benefits with premiums fully covered by M+R for individual employees.

• 401(k) retirement plan.

• Discretionary profit-sharing contributions.

• Annual $1,250 professional development allowance for eligible educational expenses.

• Flexible Spending Accounts for medical, dependent care, and transit expenses.

• 11 holidays and a Mid-summer break during the week of July 4.

• Generous paid Parental, Personal Medical & Family Caregiving leave policies.

• Fully remote work options within the United States, or the possibility of working from M+R’s Washington, DC or New York City offices.

• Commitment to an anti-racist, equitable, and inclusive workplace.

• Support for accommodations during the application and hiring process.