About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a “normalized” problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: Austin, TX, New York, NY

Department: People & Culture

Reports to: VP, Talent

The Mission

This is an invitation to redefine workforce architecture for the AI era. Cloudflare is reimagining every internal process,  from engineering to finance to sales, to run on an agentic AI backbone. We are building the global teams and talent ecosystems that will define what Cloudflare looks like for the next decade of the Internet. Getting top talent here is our number priority.

As our Vice President of Talent Acquisition, you will be the chief architect of our human capital infrastructure and lead a global team of customer obsessed recruiters and operators. You will design a predictive, highly automated talent system—one that maps company growth to workforce requirements, isolates where human judgment is irreplaceable, and deploys AI agents to handle the repetitive mechanics. We are looking for a visionary leader and highly operational leader whose instinct isn’t to simply deploy a traditional recruiting playbook, but to model the organizational system, identify the core constraints, and ship elegant, scalable solutions.

What you’re walking into

Cloudflare’s internal AI agent usage has increased exponentially, with our teams running thousands of daily agent sessions to build, ship, and scale products. This is our default operating rhythm.

Our talent acquisition strategy reflects this modern architecture. In the agentic AI era, you will lead the function that answers the ultimate organizational question: how do we optimize for the roles that require uniquely human capabilities?

You will focus our human hiring pipelines on where human capital matters most: deep creative judgment, complex systems problem-solving, and intense relationship depth. Every talent strategy you implement is a high-impact design choice for Cloudflare’s future organizational capacity.

What you’ll own

1. Customer Obsession & Outcome-Driven Systems

• Thinking Backward from the Customer: Treat our candidates and hiring managers as your ultimate customers. You will design the entire talent acquisition architecture by thinking backward from their experience—ensuring unmatched speed, absolute transparency, and mutual respect for everyone’s time.
• Outcomes Over Process: Ruthlessly eliminate “process for process’s sake.” You believe that workflows exist to enable great hiring, not to create bureaucratic hurdles. You will empower your team to be agile, adaptive, and focused on delivering high-quality matches rather than checking compliance boxes.

2. Talent System Architecture & Strategic Planning

• Enterprise Strategy: Partner with executive leadership to translate Cloudflare’s long-term product roadmaps and financial models into a predictive, multi-year global talent strategy.
• Pipeline Instrumentation: Build and monitor a highly data-driven talent funnel. Instrument key metrics—funnel health, passive-to-active conversion velocity, segment-specific time-to-fill, and quality-of-hire at the 6 and 12-month marks—to continuously tune the engine.
• AI-First Operations: Seamlessly deploy and scale AI agents across sourcing workflows, initial technical screening, scheduling logistics, and candidate communication loops to free up your team for deep relationship building.

3. High-Credibility Partnerships

• Peer-Level Alignment: Earn deep trust with our organizations through genuine technical fluency.
• Market Intelligence: Bring proactive talent market insights to organizational design conversations, advising leaders on global talent pool elasticity, compensation trends, and site selection before hiring needs even arise.

4. Global Operations & Team Leadership

• Inspirational Leadership: Lead, mentor, and elevate a global team of recruiters, technical sourcers, operational specialists, and passionate members of our team globally.
• Global Compliance Velocity: Maintain uncompromised data privacy and regulatory compliance (GDPR, pay transparency, local employment laws) across the US, EMEA, and APAC.

1. Employer Brand as a Product

• Authentic Narrative: Position Cloudflare’s employer brand as an authentic reflection of our  culture, attracting builders and sellers who are passionate about shaping an AI-first Internet.
• Future Talent Pipelines: Run early-career, university, and diversity recruiting initiatives with the same structured, metrics-driven approach applied to our senior staff engineering hires.

Highly Valued Signals

• Ideal Non-Traditional Backgrounds: We highly value senior people leaders  from Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Engineering, Sales or corporate strategy environments, other functions within people leadership, where problem-solving begins with systems-level modeling, rigorous data diagnostics, and structural thinking.
• Infrastructure Tech Deep Roots: Prior leadership experience at a SaaS, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, consumer, company where keeping a world-class technical bar is foundational to the company’s success.
• Organizational Agility: Experience successfully guiding talent operations through corporate reorganizations, high-growth scaling phases, or post-acquisition integrations with clear intent and structure.
• Compensation Architecture Fluency: Strong familiarity with market data platforms (Radford, Levels.fyi, Carta) and an understanding of equity design and localized compensation bands to help structure complex executive offers seamlessly.
• Global Scope: Direct experience scaling international tech hubs (specifically across EMEA and APJC), including a strong working knowledge of cross-border talent mobilization and regional employment practices.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For New York City based hires: Estimated annual salary of $375,000 - $400,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we’ve equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers–at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we’ve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person’s, perceived or actualrace, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.  If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

About Us

At Cloudflare, we are on a mission to help build a better Internet. Today the company runs one of the world’s largest networks that powers millions of websites and other Internet properties for customers ranging from individual bloggers to SMBs to Fortune 500 companies. Cloudflare protects and accelerates any Internet application online without adding hardware, installing software, or changing a line of code. Internet properties powered by Cloudflare all have web traffic routed through its intelligent global network, which gets smarter with every request. As a result, they see significant improvement in performance and a decrease in spam and other attacks. Cloudflare was named to Entrepreneur Magazine’s Top Company Cultures list and ranked among the World’s Most Innovative Companies by Fast Company.

At Cloudflare, we’re not looking for people who wait for a polished roadmap; we’re looking for the builders who see the cracks in the Internet that everyone else has simply learned to live with. We value candidates who have the instinct to spot a “normalized” problem and the AI-native curiosity to create a solution using the latest tools. Our culture is built on iteration, leveraging AI to ship faster today to make it better tomorrow, while ensuring that every improvement, no matter how small, is shared across the team to lift everyone up. If you’re the type of person who values curiosity over bureaucracy, and that AI is a partner in solving tough problems to keep the Internet moving forward, you’ll fit right in.

Available Locations: Austin, TX, New York, NY

Department: People & Culture

Reports to: VP, Talent

The Mission

This is an invitation to redefine workforce architecture for the AI era. Cloudflare is reimagining every internal process,  from engineering to finance to sales, to run on an agentic AI backbone. We are building the global teams and talent ecosystems that will define what Cloudflare looks like for the next decade of the Internet. Getting top talent here is our number priority.

As our Vice President of Talent Acquisition, you will be the chief architect of our human capital infrastructure and lead a global team of customer obsessed recruiters and operators. You will design a predictive, highly automated talent system—one that maps company growth to workforce requirements, isolates where human judgment is irreplaceable, and deploys AI agents to handle the repetitive mechanics. We are looking for a visionary leader and highly operational leader whose instinct isn’t to simply deploy a traditional recruiting playbook, but to model the organizational system, identify the core constraints, and ship elegant, scalable solutions.

What you’re walking into

Cloudflare’s internal AI agent usage has increased exponentially, with our teams running thousands of daily agent sessions to build, ship, and scale products. This is our default operating rhythm.

Our talent acquisition strategy reflects this modern architecture. In the agentic AI era, you will lead the function that answers the ultimate organizational question: how do we optimize for the roles that require uniquely human capabilities?

You will focus our human hiring pipelines on where human capital matters most: deep creative judgment, complex systems problem-solving, and intense relationship depth. Every talent strategy you implement is a high-impact design choice for Cloudflare’s future organizational capacity.

What you’ll own

1. Customer Obsession & Outcome-Driven Systems

• Thinking Backward from the Customer: Treat our candidates and hiring managers as your ultimate customers. You will design the entire talent acquisition architecture by thinking backward from their experience—ensuring unmatched speed, absolute transparency, and mutual respect for everyone’s time.
• Outcomes Over Process: Ruthlessly eliminate “process for process’s sake.” You believe that workflows exist to enable great hiring, not to create bureaucratic hurdles. You will empower your team to be agile, adaptive, and focused on delivering high-quality matches rather than checking compliance boxes.

2. Talent System Architecture & Strategic Planning

• Enterprise Strategy: Partner with executive leadership to translate Cloudflare’s long-term product roadmaps and financial models into a predictive, multi-year global talent strategy.
• Pipeline Instrumentation: Build and monitor a highly data-driven talent funnel. Instrument key metrics—funnel health, passive-to-active conversion velocity, segment-specific time-to-fill, and quality-of-hire at the 6 and 12-month marks—to continuously tune the engine.
• AI-First Operations: Seamlessly deploy and scale AI agents across sourcing workflows, initial technical screening, scheduling logistics, and candidate communication loops to free up your team for deep relationship building.

3. High-Credibility Partnerships

• Peer-Level Alignment: Earn deep trust with our organizations through genuine technical fluency.
• Market Intelligence: Bring proactive talent market insights to organizational design conversations, advising leaders on global talent pool elasticity, compensation trends, and site selection before hiring needs even arise.

4. Global Operations & Team Leadership

• Inspirational Leadership: Lead, mentor, and elevate a global team of recruiters, technical sourcers, operational specialists, and passionate members of our team globally.
• Global Compliance Velocity: Maintain uncompromised data privacy and regulatory compliance (GDPR, pay transparency, local employment laws) across the US, EMEA, and APAC.

1. Employer Brand as a Product

• Authentic Narrative: Position Cloudflare’s employer brand as an authentic reflection of our  culture, attracting builders and sellers who are passionate about shaping an AI-first Internet.
• Future Talent Pipelines: Run early-career, university, and diversity recruiting initiatives with the same structured, metrics-driven approach applied to our senior staff engineering hires.

Highly Valued Signals

• Ideal Non-Traditional Backgrounds: We highly value senior people leaders  from Management Consulting, Investment Banking, Engineering, Sales or corporate strategy environments, other functions within people leadership, where problem-solving begins with systems-level modeling, rigorous data diagnostics, and structural thinking.
• Infrastructure Tech Deep Roots: Prior leadership experience at a SaaS, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, consumer, company where keeping a world-class technical bar is foundational to the company’s success.
• Organizational Agility: Experience successfully guiding talent operations through corporate reorganizations, high-growth scaling phases, or post-acquisition integrations with clear intent and structure.
• Compensation Architecture Fluency: Strong familiarity with market data platforms (Radford, Levels.fyi, Carta) and an understanding of equity design and localized compensation bands to help structure complex executive offers seamlessly.
• Global Scope: Direct experience scaling international tech hubs (specifically across EMEA and APJC), including a strong working knowledge of cross-border talent mobilization and regional employment practices.

Compensation

Compensation may be adjusted depending on work location.

• For New York City based hires: Estimated annual salary of $375,000 - $400,000

Equity

This role is eligible to participate in Cloudflare’s equity plan.

Benefits

Cloudflare offers a complete package of benefits and programs to support you and your family.  Our benefits programs can help you pay health care expenses, support caregiving, build capital for the future and make life a little easier and fun!  The below is a description of our benefits for employees in the United States, and benefits may vary for employees based outside the U.S.

Health & Welfare Benefits

• Medical/Rx Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Commuter Spending Accounts
• Fertility & Family Forming Benefits
• On-demand mental health support and Employee Assistance Program
• Global Travel Medical Insurance

Financial Benefits

• Short and Long Term Disability Insurance
• Life & Accident Insurance
• 401(k) Retirement Savings Plan
• Employee Stock Participation Plan

Time Off

• Flexible paid time off covering vacation and sick leave
• Leave programs, including parental, pregnancy health, medical, and bereavement leave

What Makes Cloudflare Special?

We’re not just a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company. We’re a highly ambitious, large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014, we’ve equipped more than 2,400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work, technology already used by Cloudflare’s enterprise customers–at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017, we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free, so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project, we’ve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster, more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Here’s the deal - we don’t store client IP addresses never, ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? We’d love to hear from you!

Please note that applicants who progress to the offer stage of the interview process may be asked to attend an in-person interview within one of the Cloudflare Offices or Cloudflare Hubs.  More details about this will be available at that stage of the interview process.

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws, including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

Cloudflare is proud to be an equal opportunity employer.  We are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all people and place great value in both diversity and inclusiveness.  All qualified applicants will be considered for employment without regard to their, or any other person’s, perceived or actualrace, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, sexual orientation, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, age, physical or mental disability, medical condition, family care status, or any other basis protected by law. We are an AA/Veterans/Disabled Employer.

Cloudflare provides reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities.  Please tell us if you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job. Examples of reasonable accommodations include, but are not limited to, changing the application process, providing documents in an alternate format, using a sign language interpreter, or using specialized equipment.  If you require a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job, please contact us via e-mail at hr@cloudflare.com or via mail at 101 Townsend St. San Francisco, CA 94107.

Company Description

About SEEK

SEEK operates market-leading online employment marketplaces, including Jobstreet and Jobsdb in Asia. SEEK has been helping people live more fulfilling and productive working lives and helping organisations succeed for over 25 years.

Founded and headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, SEEK has grown into a multinational technology company with over 3,300 employees and is listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.

SEEK’s presence spans Australia, New Zealand, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore and Thailand. Additionally, SEEK has minority investments in employment marketplaces in China, South Korea and Bangladesh.

SEEK develops and applies innovative data and technology tools to facilitate high-quality matching and improve reliability of marketplace information.

In 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024, SEEK was recognised as one of Australia’s Top Ten Places to Work in Technology in the AFR BOSS Best Places to Work awards. SEEK was also named a 5-Star Employer of Choice by HRD Asia in 2024 and won four accolades at TalentCorp’s Life at Work Awards 2023 in Malaysia.

Job Description

At SEEK, our people experience matters. As we continue to grow and evolve across Asia, we’re looking for a leader who can build operational excellence at scale while ensuring employees across the region experience seamless, high-quality support every day.

As Head of HR Operations, Asia, you’ll lead a multi-country HR operations portfolio spanning six markets across Asia. This is a strategic leadership role focused on shaping scalable people operations, strengthening regional compliance, optimising HR systems and enabling a consistently strong employee experience across a complex and diverse environment.

Why This Role?

• Lead HR operations and payroll across a diverse multi-country APAC portfolio
• Shape how HR services evolve in a fast-moving, technology-led organisation
• Influence operational strategy, systems and service delivery across the region
• Partner closely with HR leaders, COEs and business stakeholders across Asia
• Build capability and drive continuous improvement within a high-impact team

This role combines operational leadership, systems thinking and regional influence in an environment where transformation and scale matter.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Leading HR services and payroll delivery across six countries in Asia
• Driving operational consistency while balancing local market requirements and compliance obligations
• Improving employee experience across key HR touchpoints and service interactions
• Leading HRIS optimisation, systems enhancements and operational process improvement initiatives
• Building meaningful HR dashboards and operational reporting to support decision-making
• Partnering with HR Business Partners and Centres of Excellence to enable seamless execution of people initiatives
• Managing relationships with payroll vendors and in-country stakeholders across the region
• Coaching and developing a regional HR operations team focused on collaboration, accountability and continuous improvement

Your work will help ensure SEEK’s people operations remain scalable, efficient and aligned to the evolving needs of the business across Asia.

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to shape how HR operations are delivered across Asia within a purpose-led organisation operating at scale.

You’ll play a key role in strengthening operational maturity, improving employee experience and helping SEEK continue to evolve its people operations capability across the region.

Your influence will extend across systems, processes, governance and people leadership, helping create an environment where teams can do their best work.

Qualifications

What We’re Looking For

We’re looking for a thoughtful and commercially minded HR operations leader who can navigate complexity while building trusted relationships across diverse teams and markets. You may bring:

• Experience leading HR operations across multiple countries within Asia or APAC
• Strong understanding of regional payroll, compliance and operational governance requirements
• Experience leading HR systems implementations or optimisation initiatives in multi-country environments
• The ability to balance operational rigour with employee experience and service quality
• Strong stakeholder engagement and influencing capability across regional and cross-cultural teams
• A collaborative leadership style that develops capability and fosters continuous improvement
• Confidence operating in fast-paced environments with multiple competing priorities

Experience in large, matrixed or technology-led organisations will be highly regarded.

Additional Information

At SEEK we offer:

• Support of flexible hybrid working, including a mix of office and work from home days depending on your role.
• The opportunity to work from anywhere for up to 4 weeks per financial year
• SEEKer Support, a confidential service that offers employees up to six sessions with a mental health professional of your choice
• Access to a wide range of discounts on things such as health insurance, fitness, food, travel, accommodation plus many more
• SEEK is committed to operating sustainably and is preparing for the impacts of climate change and the transition to a low-carbon future, and is working to minimise its environmental impacts which includes a long-term emissions reduction target of net zero by FY2050

At SEEK, we are passionate about fostering a culture of inclusion and wellbeing that embraces and values the diversity of our people. We are a purpose driven business that works with heart.

We know teams with diverse ideas, experiences and perspectives are more creative and are critical to ensuring effective delivery and innovating to enable our future success. As such, we welcome applications from people with diverse backgrounds and life experiences, especially as they relate to gender, sexual identity, culture, faith, disability and life stages. If you have the skills, curiosity and an adaptable mindset but don’t meet every responsibility or qualification listed in this advertisement, please still get in touch with us.

Should you require any specific support or adjustments throughout the recruitment process and beyond, please advise us and we will be happy to assist.

SEEK kindly requests no unsolicited resumes or approaches from recruitment agencies and will not be responsible for any associated fees.

Company Description

About the Organization

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 279 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 210,000 students and alumni.

Our mission: Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose—college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.

Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.

The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP public charter schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation helps to develop outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools; provides tools and resources for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.

About Our Values:

Excellent Results for Students: We value results over effort and know that our work is not finished until all students thrive. We maintain high expectations for self, team, and students. We drive outcomes by operating with agility, removing barriers, differentiating support, and prioritizing student-centered solutions—especially for those at the margins.

Collective Impact: We are one team. We win together. We embody a one-team mindset by working collaboratively across teams, aligning goals, and leveraging the strengths of all teammates. We build trust-based relationships and ensure inclusive decision-making by engaging those closest to the work. We provide clarity through simple, repeatable systems and goals that enable transformational outcomes.

Courageous Action: Our belief in what we can achieve is unwavering, fueling our optimism and commitment to overcome any challenge. We demonstrate an unwavering belief in students’ potential and a commitment to addressing systemic inequities. We approach challenges with resilience, a solutions-focused mindset, and adaptability. We foster a psychologically safe environment centered on trust and accountability where feedback is encouraged. We leverage data to reflect on progress, own setbacks, celebrate successes, and continuously improve to maximize impact.

Job Description

About The Position

KIPP Foundation is at a defining moment—an opportunity to deepen our impact by building a talent system that enables every leader and staff member to thrive in service of students and communities. We are committed to setting a high bar for excellence, strengthening leadership capacity, and ensuring our talent systems are clear, consistent, and built to scale.

The Vice President of People, reporting to the Senior Vice President of People Operations, will play a critical leadership role in bringing this vision to life. This leader will design and drive an integrated, insights-driven talent strategy that connects every part of the employee experience—from how we attract and onboard talent, to how we develop, engage, and retain our people.

By aligning the full talent lifecycle including recruitment, performance management, employee engagement, Total Rewards, professional development, and offboarding the Vice President will ensure that our systems not only support leaders, but empower them to deliver meaningful results and thrive.

At KIPP, we believe great outcomes are driven by great leaders operating within strong systems. In this role, you will ensure those systems are not only well-designed, but deeply embedded, building the capacity of leaders across the Foundation to lead effectively, develop their teams, and consistently meet a high bar for performance.

This is an opportunity for a strategic and systems-oriented leader who is energized by complexity, driven by impact, and committed to building the conditions for people and organizations to do their best work.

Responsibilities

Talent Strategy & Organizational Alignment

• Set and drive the overall talent strategy and talent philosophy for the KIPP Foundation workforce, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, culture, and long-term goals.

• Partner with the SVP of People Operations and executive leadership to align talent strategy with organizational design, workforce planning, and operational priorities.

• Ensure a coherent, integrated talent system across the Foundation, including recruitment, onboarding, HR operations, performance management, development, engagement, and offboarding.

• Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership on organizational effectiveness, talent health, and workforce strategy, using data and insights to inform decision-making.

Talent Systems & Organizational Effectiveness

• Oversee the design and effectiveness of the full talent lifecycle, ensuring systems and processes drive strong performance, development, and retention outcomes.

• Set the vision for performance management and development systems, including goal setting, feedback cycles, and evaluation processes, in partnership with the Senior Director of Development & Growth.

• Ensure effective HR operations and infrastructure, including recruitment, onboarding, Total Rewards, and compliance, in partnership with the Senior Director of People Operations.

• Use workforce, engagement, and performance data to monitor organizational health, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement across talent systems.

Employee Relations, Policy & Risk Management

• Establish the vision, policies, and standards for employee relations, including performance management, conflict resolution, and policy compliance.

• Ensure consistent, fair, and compliant application of HR policies and practices across the organization.

• Advise senior leaders on complex employee relations matters and organizational risk, ensuring alignment with legal and organizational standards.

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and develop the Talent function, setting the vision and strategic direction to ensure strong execution across both People Operations and Development & Growth.

• Oversee and coach Senior Directors, ensuring clear ownership, alignment, and accountability across:

• People Operations (HR systems, recruitment, Total Rewards, and HR operations)

• Development & Growth (goal setting, performance systems, manager development, and engagement)

• Set enterprise-level priorities and allocate resources to ensure the Talent function is focused on the highest-impact work and positioned to deliver against organizational goals.

• Drive alignment and integration across talent systems, ensuring a seamless and consistent employee experience across both sub teams.

• Foster a high-performing, outcomes-driven culture across the Talent team that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• Build leadership capacity across the team by coaching senior leaders, strengthening decision-making, and ensuring clear expectations and performance standards.

• Act as a visible culture leader and ambassador for KIPP, modeling organizational values and reinforcing a high bar for performance, equity, and impact across the Foundation.

Organizational Talent Planning & Culture

• Partner with leadership to drive annual workforce planning, talent strategy, and culture priorities aligned to organizational goals.

• Ensure alignment between talent strategy, employee experience, and organizational culture, reinforcing a high bar for performance and development.

• Support the organization in building a strong, inclusive, and high-performing workforce, aligned to KIPP’s mission and values.

Qualifications

Skills and Mindsets

• Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP’s mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP’s Core Values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action).

Self-Management: Demonstrated record of setting and achieving ambitious goals for their departments in complex or ambiguous environment; uses data, research, and analysis to set a high bar of excellence for goal setting; effectively distributes and redistributes work among direct reports, teammates, and teams to optimizes goal attainments; effectively sets and fosters a culture that enables and celebrates teammates’ achievements and goals attainment.

Work Management: Sets a clear vision that ensures alignment of the teams work to organizational goals. Effectively prioritize and deliver work products that ensure sustainability and scalability of work. Develops and implements agile project plans that ensure cross functional collaboration and resource sharing to ensure achieving organizational goals; create and ensure systems are in place for knowledge management.

Data-Driven Actions and Decisions: Effectively uses data to shape teamwide decisions and the learning agenda or evaluation of a function or significant initiative. Able to generate, implement, and evaluate solutions with a focus on scalability and sustainability.

Problem Solving: Takes calculated risks to test and implements correct, scalable solutions. Addresses the root of problems and removes obstacles from work. Understands how solutions may unearth other obstacles further downstream.

Communication and Change Management: Effectively articulates case for change to multiple functions, teams, and/or offices through clear and compelling presentations, tailoring communications and engagement approach for different audiences. Effectively translates vision into actionable plans among across team stakeholders; Champions KF and networkwide change with all stakeholders.

People Management and Development: Effectively ensures strong professional development and coaching for teammates directly and through layers. Proficient in the mechanics of succession management and performance management for teammates. Able to coach manager of managers and skilled at fostering a positive team culture in which teammates feel ownership and accountability for their own and the broader team’s work and results.

Experience and Qualifications

• 8+ years of senior HR and talent management leadership experience in nonprofit or education contexts at progressive levels of responsibility with evidence of successful development and organizational outcomes

• Understanding of current education climate and corresponding response strategies for the communities we serve

• Strong background in leading with equity at the center, especially through organizational change and growth

• Experience cultivating a work culture in a virtual environment that is value-driven, equitable, and inclusive

Additional Information

Work Conditions

• Travel: Moderate Travel: Up to 10% (up to 20 days per year)

• Full, exempt role

Location

It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role also has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago.

Compensation and Benefits

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $197,600-$236,500. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including:

• 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).

• 100% paid parental leave

• 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.

• Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program

• Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts

KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that’s around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.

Company Description

About the Organization

KIPP Public Schools is a national network of tuition-free public charter schools that prepares students with the skills and confidence to create the future they want for themselves, their communities, and us all. We are a network of 279 schools, nearly 16,500 educators, and nearly 210,000 students and alumni.

Our mission: Together with families and communities, we create joyful, academically excellent schools that prepare students with the skills and confidence to pursue the paths they choose—college, career, and beyond—so they can lead fulfilling lives and build a more just world.

Our vision: Every child grows up free to create the future they want for themselves and their communities.

The KIPP Foundation is a nonprofit organization that supports KIPP public charter schools across the country. The KIPP Foundation helps to develop outstanding educators to lead KIPP schools; provides tools and resources for excellent teaching and learning; promotes innovation; and facilitates the exchange of insights and ideas across KIPP and other public schools and organizations.

About Our Values:

Excellent Results for Students: We value results over effort and know that our work is not finished until all students thrive. We maintain high expectations for self, team, and students. We drive outcomes by operating with agility, removing barriers, differentiating support, and prioritizing student-centered solutions—especially for those at the margins.

Collective Impact: We are one team. We win together. We embody a one-team mindset by working collaboratively across teams, aligning goals, and leveraging the strengths of all teammates. We build trust-based relationships and ensure inclusive decision-making by engaging those closest to the work. We provide clarity through simple, repeatable systems and goals that enable transformational outcomes.

Courageous Action: Our belief in what we can achieve is unwavering, fueling our optimism and commitment to overcome any challenge. We demonstrate an unwavering belief in students' potential and a commitment to addressing systemic inequities. We approach challenges with resilience, a solutions-focused mindset, and adaptability. We foster a psychologically safe environment centered on trust and accountability where feedback is encouraged. We leverage data to reflect on progress, own setbacks, celebrate successes, and continuously improve to maximize impact.

Job Description

About The Position

KIPP Foundation is at a defining moment—an opportunity to deepen our impact by building a talent system that enables every leader and staff member to thrive in service of students and communities. We are committed to setting a high bar for excellence, strengthening leadership capacity, and ensuring our talent systems are clear, consistent, and built to scale.

The Vice President of People, reporting to the Senior Vice President of People Operations, will play a critical leadership role in bringing this vision to life. This leader will design and drive an integrated, insights-driven talent strategy that connects every part of the employee experience—from how we attract and onboard talent, to how we develop, engage, and retain our people.

By aligning the full talent lifecycle including recruitment, performance management, employee engagement, Total Rewards, professional development, and offboarding the Vice President will ensure that our systems not only support leaders, but empower them to deliver meaningful results and thrive.

At KIPP, we believe great outcomes are driven by great leaders operating within strong systems. In this role, you will ensure those systems are not only well-designed, but deeply embedded, building the capacity of leaders across the Foundation to lead effectively, develop their teams, and consistently meet a high bar for performance.

This is an opportunity for a strategic and systems-oriented leader who is energized by complexity, driven by impact, and committed to building the conditions for people and organizations to do their best work.

Responsibilities

Talent Strategy & Organizational Alignment

• Set and drive the overall talent strategy and talent philosophy for the KIPP Foundation workforce, ensuring alignment with organizational priorities, culture, and long-term goals.
• Partner with the SVP of People Operations and executive leadership to align talent strategy with organizational design, workforce planning, and operational priorities.
• Ensure a coherent, integrated talent system across the Foundation, including recruitment, onboarding, HR operations, performance management, development, engagement, and offboarding.
• Serve as a strategic advisor to leadership on organizational effectiveness, talent health, and workforce strategy, using data and insights to inform decision-making.
  
  

Talent Systems & Organizational Effectiveness

• Oversee the design and effectiveness of the full talent lifecycle, ensuring systems and processes drive strong performance, development, and retention outcomes.
• Set the vision for performance management and development systems, including goal setting, feedback cycles, and evaluation processes, in partnership with the Senior Director of Development & Growth.
• Ensure effective HR operations and infrastructure, including recruitment, onboarding, Total Rewards, and compliance, in partnership with the Senior Director of People Operations.
• Use workforce, engagement, and performance data to monitor organizational health, identify risks, and drive continuous improvement across talent systems.
  
  

Employee Relations, Policy & Risk Management

• Establish the vision, policies, and standards for employee relations, including performance management, conflict resolution, and policy compliance.
• Ensure consistent, fair, and compliant application of HR policies and practices across the organization.
• Advise senior leaders on complex employee relations matters and organizational risk, ensuring alignment with legal and organizational standards.
  
  

Leadership & Team Management

• Lead and develop the Talent function, setting the vision and strategic direction to ensure strong execution across both People Operations and Development & Growth.
• Oversee and coach Senior Directors, ensuring clear ownership, alignment, and accountability across:
• People Operations (HR systems, recruitment, Total Rewards, and HR operations)
• Development & Growth (goal setting, performance systems, manager development, and engagement)
• Set enterprise-level priorities and allocate resources to ensure the Talent function is focused on the highest-impact work and positioned to deliver against organizational goals.
• Drive alignment and integration across talent systems, ensuring a seamless and consistent employee experience across both sub teams.
• Foster a high-performing, outcomes-driven culture across the Talent team that emphasizes accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Build leadership capacity across the team by coaching senior leaders, strengthening decision-making, and ensuring clear expectations and performance standards.
• Act as a visible culture leader and ambassador for KIPP, modeling organizational values and reinforcing a high bar for performance, equity, and impact across the Foundation.
  
  

Organizational Talent Planning & Culture

• Partner with leadership to drive annual workforce planning, talent strategy, and culture priorities aligned to organizational goals.
• Ensure alignment between talent strategy, employee experience, and organizational culture, reinforcing a high bar for performance and development.
• Support the organization in building a strong, inclusive, and high-performing workforce, aligned to KIPP’s mission and values.
  
  

Qualifications

Skills And Mindsets

• Mission and Student Focus: Demonstrates passion and commitment to KIPP's mission and possesses the desire and ability to uphold KIPP's Core Values (Focus on Excellent Results, Collective Impact, and Courageous Action).
  
  

Self-Management: Demonstrated record of setting and achieving ambitious goals for their departments in complex or ambiguous environment; uses data, research, and analysis to set a high bar of excellence for goal setting; effectively distributes and redistributes work among direct reports, teammates, and teams to optimizes goal attainments; effectively sets and fosters a culture that enables and celebrates teammates' achievements and goals attainment.

Work Management: Sets a clear vision that ensures alignment of the teams work to organizational goals. Effectively prioritize and deliver work products that ensure sustainability and scalability of work. Develops and implements agile project plans that ensure cross functional collaboration and resource sharing to ensure achieving organizational goals; create and ensure systems are in place for knowledge management.

Data-Driven Actions and Decisions: Effectively uses data to shape teamwide decisions and the learning agenda or evaluation of a function or significant initiative. Able to generate, implement, and evaluate solutions with a focus on scalability and sustainability.

Problem Solving: Takes calculated risks to test and implements correct, scalable solutions. Addresses the root of problems and removes obstacles from work. Understands how solutions may unearth other obstacles further downstream.

Communication and Change Management: Effectively articulates case for change to multiple functions, teams, and/or offices through clear and compelling presentations, tailoring communications and engagement approach for different audiences. Effectively translates vision into actionable plans among across team stakeholders; Champions KF and networkwide change with all stakeholders.

People Management and Development: Effectively ensures strong professional development and coaching for teammates directly and through layers. Proficient in the mechanics of succession management and performance management for teammates. Able to coach manager of managers and skilled at fostering a positive team culture in which teammates feel ownership and accountability for their own and the broader team's work and results.

Experience And Qualifications

• 8+ years of senior HR and talent management leadership experience in nonprofit or education contexts at progressive levels of responsibility with evidence of successful development and organizational outcomes
• Understanding of current education climate and corresponding response strategies for the communities we serve
• Strong background in leading with equity at the center, especially through organizational change and growth
• Experience cultivating a work culture in a virtual environment that is value-driven, equitable, and inclusive
  
  

Additional Information

Work Conditions

• Travel: Moderate Travel: Up to 10% (up to 20 days per year)
• Full, exempt role
  
  

Location

It is preferred, but not mandatory for this role to be based out of a KIPP Foundation office. This role also has the option of working from a remote office full-time. KIPP Foundation offices are in NYC and Chicago.

Compensation And Benefits

In compliance with local law, we are disclosing the compensation, or a range thereof, for roles in locations where legally required. Actual salaries will vary based on several factors, including but not limited to external market data, internal equity, and relevant experience. The salary range for this position is $197,600-$236,500. In addition, KIPP Foundation provides a variety of benefits to employees, including: 

• 25 holidays for + 18 days additional flexible PTO days (flexible PTO increases to 23 days for years 3 and 4 and to 28 days for years 5+).
• 100% paid parental leave
• 100% coverage of the premium for employee and 75% for employee + family’s medical/dental/vision plans.
• Wellness benefits such as fitness reimbursements, discounted tickets to theme parks/attractions, backup care support for children and adults/elders, and our employee assistance program
• Finance Security benefits include such as a 401K retirement plan with 4% match, employer-sponsored legal plans, life/disability insurance, and flexible spending accounts
  
  

KIPP Foundation embraces the opportunity to build a workforce that reflects the diversity of the students and communities with whom we work and the world that’s around them. Being an equal opportunity employer means that we take seriously our responsibility to consider qualified candidates on the basis of merit, without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, mental or physical disability, and genetic information, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or any other category protected by law.