Director of Employee Experience

The Opportunity:

Performio is looking for a Director of Employee Experience to aid in scaling and managing our People function. The Head of Employee Experience will be responsible for defining and developing employee programs, partnering closely with the Chief People Officer and Head of Talent Acquisition to ensure we attract high quality candidates and uphold an engaged workplace. The candidate will join Performio at a key time in our growth with the opportunity to craft the people operations strategy - while playing a lead role in building the foundation for our next phase of growth.

About Performio:

We are a small, but mighty company offering incentive compensation management software (ICM) that regularly beats the legacy incumbents in our industry. How? Our people and our product.

Our people are highly-motivated and engaged professionals with a clear set of values and behaviors. We prove these values matter to us by living them each day. This makes Performio both a great place to work and a great company to do business with.

But a great team alone is not sufficient to win. We also have a great product that balances the flexibility that large companies need in a sales commission solution with the great user experience buyers have come to expect from modern software. We are the only company in our industry that can make this claim and the market has responded favorably. We have a global customer base across Australia, Asia, Europe, and the US in 25+ industries that includes many well-known companies like News Corp, Johnson & Johnson and Vodafone.

What you’ll be doing:

• Collaborate with senior management to set strategy related to employee engagement and retention. Directly responsible for growing and scaling the employee experience team to align with the needs of our growing company.
• Ensure values are incorporated into retention, performance reviews, meetings, and employee interactions; develop a consistent events schedule aimed at driving team cohesion; further develop the company’s belonging efforts.
• Serve as an independent and trustworthy resource for employees; drive HR initiatives (performance reviews, compliance updates, and mandatory training) and maintain/evolve HR infrastructure (policies, processes, systems); ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local legislation pertaining to personnel matters. Seek to identify new areas for improvement such as incorporating peer reviews within the annual performance evaluation cycle.
• Collaborate internally or with an outside consultant to develop and implement new learning and development programs that provide managers and employees with the necessary tools to maximize effectiveness and professional development.
• Provide counsel and effectively coach the team to ensure that we build and maintain a dynamic and highly engaged team.

Requirements

What we’re looking for:

• High-growth HR experience as a people leader and champion of culture
• Proven experience using data to drive approach/methodology/decision-making
• Creativity and passion around designing a stellar experience for employees
• Innate comfort and talent with having difficult conversations
• Experience leading a large and fast-moving organization
• Experience leading and coaching executives on discussions involving connection and culture
• Experience with onboarding programs that create a positive and smooth integration into the company
• M&A/Integration experience desired
• Tech company experience preferred, experience with a true people-centric culture required

Benefits

Why us?

We’re fast-growing, but still small enough for everyone to make a big impact (and have face time with the CEO). We genuinely care for our customers and we are passionate about solving our customers’ sales compensation challenges. Led by a strong set of company values, we play to win and are incentivized to succeed through our employee equity plan.

We’ve adapted well to the work from home lifestyle, and encourage flexible working arrangements. Some of our staff work full time from home, while others prefer working from one of our offices, or a combination of home and office.

Our values speak strongly to who we really are. They mean a lot to us, and we use them every day to make decisions, and of course to hire great people!

• Play to win - we focus on results, have a bias to action and finish what we start
• Paint a clear picture - we’re clear, concise and communicate appropriately
• Be curious - we surface alternative solutions and consistently expand our knowledge
• Work as one - we all pitch in but also hold each other to account
• Do the right thing - we put what’s right for our customers over our own ego

What You Will Receive:

Performio offers competitive salaries and a generous benefits package. You will receive an annual salary that is between the middle and high end of the market depending on your experience. You will also receive the following company benefits:

• Equity plan – all employees are also owners
  
• Unlimited paid vacation & paid company holidays
• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• Company-sponsored 401(k) program, company contributes 3% of your salary annually regardless of what you put in
• Laptop, mouse, keyboard, and monitor
• WeWork membership
• Free parking (at Irvine headquarters)

Don’t check every box in our job description? That’s ok! As the Harvard Business Review points out, research conducted by Hewlett Packard shows that men typically apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, while women and those from marginalized groups tend to only apply when they feel they meet 100%. If you think you have what it takes, but don’t necessarily meet all of the requirements listed in the job description, please still reach out. We’d love to have a conversation to see if you could be a great fit!