Director - Product People Science

Join us on our mission to make a better world of work. 

Culture Amp is the world’s most trusted Employee Experience platform. Our mission is to create a better world of work for 100 million people by helping companies put their people and culture first. 

We do this by bringing together pioneering people science and powerful technology. Over 3500 companies like Airbnb, Slack, and the BBC trust Culture Amp to collect, understand and connect data throughout the employee experience. The insights help them truly understand their people and guide them on the best actions to drive positive behaviour change and lasting impact. We live in a world where the ability to understand and influence culture at scale is no longer a ‘nice-to-have’ but a ‘necessary-to-survive’.

Join us in making the world better, by making a better world of work.

How you can help make a better world of work

People are at the heart of any business and our mission is to positively change the experience and the impact of over 100 million people at work. To achieve this, our product vision is to be the trusted source on what works to deliver a better employee experience based on insights from our unique and unparalleled data set, research and people science. With these insights, we partner with our customers to build a better world of work. We further believe that to really help workplaces be better, change must come from every person within, like a grassroots movement of better culture and people practices. 

The People Science Experience (PSX) Director is key to bringing this vision to life. With our existing PSX Director stepping out on parental leave, a unique opportunity exists to lead the talented Product People Science (PSX) practice for 12 months. While this is a temporary cover, it is by no means just a ‘keep the lights on’ role. You’ll bring your unique strengths, leadership and perspective to build on the existing foundation and vision - further strengthening our scientific competitive advantage. As a change-maker, you’ll help drive a strategy for how our products and research come together to lead the employee experience category.

In this role, you’ll drive ensuring that our products and solutions are science backed, industry leading and have the optimal impact for our customers and their employees - some example problems you and PSX might take on are: What does progressive career pathing and true talent potential look like? How might we unlock manager behaviour change? And what is the best way to take action following employee feedback? You’ll have the chance to apply your strong people leadership experience coupled with practical expertise and scientific knowledge of people at work to lead a relatively small but high impact practice spanning people science, data analytics and research.

Ultimately, in this role you will have the ability to impact the overall experience of millions of employees at thousands of companies around the world!  

What you’ll spend your time doing

• You’ll collaborate with top notch Product leaders from Product Management, Design, UX, Data science and Analytics as well as the broader People Science leaders to create compelling experiences to change behaviour, provide meaningful insights and create better workplaces
• You’ll be a change maker who contributes to the vision and strategy for how our products and research come together to lead the employee experience category 
• As a people mentor and coach, you’ll guide a team of People Scientists and researchers - supporting their decisions, honing their craft, and guiding their own development and progression.
• Working across multiple Product Camps, you’ll ensure smooth cross-collaboration with PSX and that the most critical products have the required people science coverage and domain expertise.
• You’ll advise on and drive a ‘practical science’ position - meaning that the people science approaches we recommend to product:
• are sound (i.e grounded in research and psychological theory)
• meet customers needs and expectations and,
• lead the way in employee experience/people and culture approaches
• Working with the practice on key employee experience problems. Examples in the first 6 months might be defining a progressive way for career pathing, reliable understanding of talent and, with our focus on managers, defining the ideal manager behaviours in performance development and the product moments where we can enable meaningful change (i.e. 1-on-1 conversations, giving feedback)
•  You’ll also help define improvements in how we go to market with a people science based positioning 
• And you’ll ensure that our product’s position on employee experience in the market stands up to scrutiny by customers, community and industry experts - including the occasional representation of our perspective in the media 

About you

You're a people geek! You’ve spent a large part of your career learning about how humans operate, behave and change at work. You've done a decent stint consulting or as a practitioner in the organisational development, engagement or people and culture related space - either way you’ve done things differently in the world of HR and people practices in order to make them more relevant for the new world of work. Leading people is now second nature to you and you’re driven to make change via impacting strategy and coaching highly capable others. 

What you (ideally) bring 

• About 10 years on the clock in people and culture/OD/I/O psych practitioner or consulting roles, and 4 or more as a people leader.
• Graduate/Masters degree in I/O psychology, HR, Business psychology, or related domain (or alternative degree with extensive practitioner experience) 
• Proven ability to build, coach and motivate high performing teams and individuals (beyond theoretical)
• Innovative and change-oriented mindset, where you have demonstrated challenging the status quo via creative and practical problem solving 
• Strong communication skills and experience engaging and collaborating with diverse stakeholders, including strategic customers and executive teams
• An ability to break down complex information and concepts into engaging and actionable insights for a variety of audiences
• Comfortable/experience working with social research methods and understanding data insights 
• As a bonus, you may have worked in tech or have experience in a product organisation

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Research shows that while men apply to jobs when they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other marginalised folks tend to only apply when they check every box. So if you think you have what it takes, but don't necessarily meet every single point on the job description, please still get in touch. We'd love to have a chat and see if you could be a great fit. 

Non average workplaces attract above average people.

We consider ourselves anything but average and strive to make a home for different types of people from around the world to do their best work and have fun doing it. So we have created 4 “not your average” values that we live by, take a read, and if this sounds like the environment for you, please apply! 

We are committed to not only making a better world of work, but also a better world. So we are proud to be recognised as a certified B-Corp.

We believe that inclusive businesses are better, not just for “company results”, but for the world. We have a strong commitment to Anti-Racism, and endeavour to lead by example. Every step we make as a business towards anti-racism is another step we can support our customers in making a better world (of work). You can see our current commitments to Anti-Racism here.

We ensure you have the tools you need to thrive both in and out of work.

• MacBooks for you to do your best work 
• Share Options - it’s important to us that everyone is an owner and can share in our success
• (Remove for Australia) Medical insurance - for you and your family so you can feel safe in these uncertain times
• Excellent parental leave and in work support programme, - for those families to be
• Flexible working schedule - where we can, let’s make work, work for you
• Fun and inclusive digital, and (in the future) in-person events

Most importantly. An opportunity to really make a difference in people’s lives.

Here are a few highlights from Culture Amp

• What is a People Geek?
• Learn how Culture Amp has impacted businesses around the world
• What does Culture First mean?