Director of People Team

The Director for People is an integral member of the SoftWriters People team and will play a crucial role in shaping the organization’s culture and ensuring that SoftWriters maintains healthy employee engagement and will lead strategic and tactical projects and people operations work streams.

The director will lead various HR projects focused on enhancing the employee experience while optimizing HR process workflows.

The Director of People will provide leadership and coaching support to 1-2 direct reports and report to the Vice President of People.


* Lead and oversee all aspects of HR operations aligned with the employee life cycle; Partners with key internal stakeholders to deploy and maintain efficient HR systems and processes that support organizational needs.


* Deploy and manage change initiatives to support organizational growth and transformation.


* Effectively navigates employee relations by providing timely guidance and support to people leaders and employees.


* Provide leadership support and strategic direction for the full-cycle talent acquisition and new-hire onboarding process in collaboration with the TA recruiter/consultant and people leaders.


* Experience leading small and large-scale projects applying effective and efficient project management methodology (i.e., agile, lean, six sigma or scrum)


* Develop and implement needs-based career and learning development programs leveraging a mix of learning tools and resources; Serves as coach and facilitator to ensure growth, development, advancement, and succession.


* Drive organizational excellence through implementation of effective people leadership in collaboration with Leadership Team and VP of People; Identifies and implements continuous improvement strategies to support the SoftWriters business strategy; Stays abreast of industry trends and best practices and leverages innovation and excellence within the People function.


* Deploy an effective performance management process with clear communications, milestones, education and training for people leaders and individual contributors.


* Maintains vendor relations for People Team vendors.


* Monitors and analyzes People metrics and analytics to drive data-driven decision making.


* Support and drive a healthy, safe, inclusive, equitable and highly engaged work culture.


* Demonstrates a strong moral-compass, critical thinking, and a demonstrated ability to maintain confidentiality.


* Drives DEI initiatives to create a welcome, supportive, and respectful employee culture.


* Ensures the company complies with all federal, state, and local employment regulations.


* Supports enterprise risk management.


* Other duties as assigned.

Minimum Qualifications:


* BA or BS in Business, Human Resources, Psychology, or related field.


* 5-10 years of previous experience in the Human Resources field required.


* 5 years’ previous experience as a HR Busine...