Head of People
New York City
People /
Full Time /
Hybrid
Capchase, recognised as one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies of 2023, empowers SaaS companies to grow faster through access to capital & revenue management tools. We have been acknowledged by Forbes North America’s best startups and also featured among Forbes Next Billion-Dollar Startups 2023. To carry out our mission, we've received $700M+ in equity and debt funding from some of the best fintech investors QED (Nubank, Klarna), 01 Advisors (Tipalti, Master Class), Bling Capital (Airtable, Gitlab, Lyft, Square), SciFI (Stripe, Brex), Caffeinated (OpenDoor, Airtable).
In a little over three years, we’ve provided billions in funding to thousands of companies, expanded operations to ten countries in the US and Europe, and grown our team from four co-founders in May 2020 to 130 Capchasers today.
Since our launch in 2020, we’ve achieved several milestones:
➡ 4K+ companies registered
🏃 5,000 plus months additional runway generated
🙌 Over 120 Capchasers working across 14 cities around the world representing over 20 nationalities
🌎 10 countries in which we operate
📈 250% annual company growth
👫 Built an awesome culture.
As a Head of People, you will play a pivotal role in managing and nurturing our company's future growth and success. While supporting and empowering our leaders across the globe, you will also contribute hands on by developing the strategy of our People team and helping the business achieve our ambitious goals.
🚀 What you’ll do:
- Strategic Leadership:
- Define our company culture and weaving it through the organization
- Establish structure, processes, and best practices for the People team to execute
- Proactively identify opportunities for growing the scope and impact of the your team
- Help us create a robust employer brand to attract top talent to our organization
- Improve our organizational design while we scale and bring new people onboard
- Learning & Development:
- Empower our managers across the business with leadership skills and best practices
- Build an executive and ownership mindset across the business to nurture a high performing culture
- Identify skills gaps, setting a strategy, and building a hands-on plan that supports it
- Compensation & Performance:
- Share strategic expertise of compensation and performance standards across the business
- Set a vision and strategy for our wider People team to keep raising the bar with our Performance and Compensation practices
🧠 What we are looking for:
- Experience in executive leadership, strategic thinking, and intellectual curiosity
- Strong L&D experience across different levels in the business. It's a plus if you have done executive leadership development
- You've led top-performing teams at scale, and have a blueprint to help us achieve that
- You've shaped an employer brand, defined culture, and possess the know how to structure these
- You've taken a company through a growth period, scaling to ~300 people or more.
- You've led People Teams in remote international environments and can help us define geographies for further expansion
- Startup experience is a must
- This role is New York City based
We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
