Vice President, Human Resources

Description
Position at RetailMeNot
About Ziff Shopping
A division of Ziff Davis LLC, Ziff Shopping helps millions of shoppers discover and save, delivering exceptional consumer and merchant-advertiser experiences across a portfolio of leading mobile and ecommerce brands. Our domestic brands include RetailMeNot, Offers.com,Blackfriday.com, TechBargains and more. We also run the leading Cash Back, Reward and Coupon codes brands in France (Ma-Reduc and Poulpeo) and the UK (Voucher Codes).
THE ROLE
Reporting to the GM of Ziff Shopping, the VP of HR will lead the development and execution of Ziff Shopping’s employee lifecycle. We are looking for an effective hands-on leader with a proven track record who can support the scaling of a nine-figure revenue operation, with over 400 employees across the world, through organic and M&A activities. This strategic partner will drive business partnerships through cross functional alignment with various operating departments and key stakeholders. This leader will manage a team of approximately 8 HR professionals across the US, UK, and France. Specific responsibilities will include:

• Management and Leadership Training: Drive scalable solutions around making our leaders better managers; provide coaching and feedback to our existing leadership team and develop programs that prepare high-potential employees
• Vision and Strategy: Partner with the executive team and strategic stakeholders to help establish and execute on the long-term vision for key people operation functions, drive future organizational design and change management initiatives to maintain a high-performing, motivated, and impactful team. Foster an environment which stimulates open communication, collaboration, imagination and engenders a team spirit in solving problems and achieving growth expectations
• Values and Culture: Promote our core values, DE&I goals, while making Ziff Shopping an employer of choice in eCommerce. Reflect and enact the values of diversity, equity and inclusion by promoting representational diversity in our audiences and workforce, and fostering an equitable and welcoming environment where people from diverse backgrounds can participate and thrive. Act as a steward to ensure that all decisions, programs, and processes are aligned with those values and goals. Help us to scale the organization quickly (organically and through M&A) while maintaining our performance-oriented culture
• Talent Management: Attract, development, motivate and retain top talent throughout the employee lifecycle
• People Operations: Proactively identify areas where our people processes, tools, and technology can evolve
• Professional Development: Build scalable professional development programs that aid in growing our team’s capabilities and drive employee retention
• Performance Management and Recognition: Enhance our company-wide performance management program to help us identify high and low performers, promote and reward excellence, and drive continuous, transparent feedback across all disciplines
• Data and Compliance: Improve the collection and use of people-related data to aid in better decision making; develop key metrics to measure employee happiness, performance, engagement, and retention; ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local requirements across each of our offices

THE CANDIDATE
The Ziff Shopping VP of Human Resources will be an independent, intelligent, data-driven, and dynamic executive who is highly results-oriented. They will bring the right combination of skills and experience to develop a high functioning people team. This leader will have a non-political, collaborative, fair, hands-on management style that emphasizes clear, direct, communication and transparency at all levels. The ideal candidate has demonstrable success in leading by example with a commitment to setting and achieving ambitious, but realistic, employee experience goals. They should have a good balance between IQ and EQ, while relying on data for thoughtful and fast-paced decision making to drive velocity across the team. They have a proven track-record of developing talent at all levels that add to the culture and results of an organization. This leader will translate business goals into people-based initiatives, balancing short term priorities with long term goals. They are willing to challenge the status quo with a laser focus on outcomes, influencing upward through Ziff Davis. This leader should have a passion for problem solving, bring an innovative spirit and continually drive equity and inclusion, striving to make Ziff Shopping a top employer in eCommerce.
Requirements

• Expertise in coaching across the full spectrum of seniority
• Comfortable with data, KPIs, and OKRs that measure the effectiveness of programs and strategies
• 10+ years direct Human Resources experience, with 5+ years leading HR teams in growth-oriented and multi-national companies
• Ability to build and communicate business rationale and financial impacts of programs
• The proven ability to influence and drive change with executive and operating teams through active communication of the people strategy
• Proven success in delivering high-impact people operations programs around performance management, culture, employee engagement, and retention
• The ability to think strategically but also focus on tactical and operational issues
• A track record of being a business partner to executives across a variety of functional areas and a demonstrated capability to interface and maintain effective relationships with all departments and staff

We Offer Great Benefits:

• Family Planning Programs like MAVEN Fertility Concierge
• Pregnancy and Paid Parental Leave (up to 16 weeks)
• Wellness Programs: Gym reimbursement, Lose It! and Calm subscriptions
• Hybrid, Remote and Flexible work arrangements
• Employee stock purchase program (ESPP)
• Charitable Giving Programs that include Paid Time off to volunteer and donation match
• 401K savings plan with employer match
• Diverse and inclusive employee resource groups where you can collaborate with teams across the company while making an impact in the areas that most excite you!
• Flexible Vacation / Paid Time Off
• Company-sponsored medical, dental, and vision insurance (including domestic partner coverage) + pet insurance

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Information
Individuals seeking employment at Ziff Davis are considered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, or sexual orientation. You are being given the opportunity to provide the following information in order to help us align with federal and state Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action record keeping, reporting, and other legal requirements.
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