Performance Principal, Sigma Labs

• A strong educational background (the institute is less important than the standards you’ve set for yourself, and the challenges you’ve overcome)
• 5 years’ minimum professional experience in a delivery focused organisation (e.g. top tier management consultancy, a top tech company, or other high performance environment)
• Prior experience mentoring or coaching junior talent
• Prior experience conducting interviews
• A strong understanding of business in general, and the roles that juniors play in them
• Impactful communication: experience communicating with a range of audiences and stakeholders, as well as excellent written communication skills, including managing documentation
• Analytical with high EQ: coaching talent from first principles rather than relying on easy heuristics requires understanding and solving complex human problems with data. This is not an L&D function
• Confident in learning and using data platforms and systems
• Alignment with our principles (see website)
• The role requires an over achiever, comfortable working in a high performance, high cadence environment. As such, the role will almost certainly suit an ex-consultant or technology professional who has worked with juniors in a high-performing environment (mentoring), with a real interest in enabling high performance in people (coaching)

Desirable

• The Performance & Talent Principal is responsible for delivering against two main areas: 1) Delivering high-performance coaching for our consultants, while working closely with clients on feedback mechanisms and promotion plans, and developing juniors with great potential (the high performance part of our mission); and 2) Supporting the wider delivery of our programme, including helping the Hire team to source graduates from low-income backgrounds with the potential to become top performing juniors (the social mobility part of our mission).
• The high-performance/non-technical training and coaching our trainees and consultants receive is loosely based on the Bain graduate programme. While our clients come to us for technically skilled consultants, it is the consultants’ professional behaviours that will ultimately determine their long term success. This is where the role focuses to maximise the consultants’ career success, by activating our high performance training during their deployments with clients. You will work closely with our consultants and clients to build long-term working partnerships, delivering new initiatives and processes, developing a deep and practical body of work to understand top tier performance, as well as supporting our Hire function by conducting behavioural interviews. This role has the unique benefit of working with our candidates, our trainees, and our consultants, across the full “lifecycle” of their Sigma Labs journey, supporting our HTD functions as we scale. As such, the ideal candidate will be highly adaptable, with a fungible skillset. Key responsibilities include:
• Develop and deliver against a high performance programme: reporting into the Head of Deploy, build and deliver the Deploy programme that enables consultants to be high performers across their 2-years with clients and throughout their careers, including regular 1-1 coaching for high performance
• Client impact: work with client line managers and senior stakeholders to review consultant performance, understand top performance in the client context, and manage consultant promotion pathways and conversion to permanent roles with our clients
• Insights and thought leadership: over time, further develop the science behind our approach by deeply understanding coaching for high performance in juniors, and become an expert on what excellent junior professional behaviours and how to activate these
• Analytics and data: all Hire, Train and Deploy functions are highly data-driven. You will collect and analyse data week to week to track progress, as well as derive insights over time to improve
• Positive action: determine activities and interventions to support consultants from our target groups
• Candidate selection: conduct behavioural interviews week to week, to select candidates with the potential for high-performance, and provide them with a wonderful experience with Sigma Labs. This includes simple but impactful feedback processes
• Managing any external resources: manage and liaise with a number of external suppliers and partners to deliver outcomes across our hiring and training
• Leaning-in: playing a key role in the team and doing whatever it takes to help us achieve the mission and principles, including contributing to our wider training programmes as needed

• 1. Apply with your profile and a brief cover statement summarising relevant experience and your motivations
• 2. 30 minute online interview with our Chief Product Officer
• 3. 60 to 90 min in-person interview with the Chief Product Officer and Head of Deploy, including a case study/task (information provided in advance)
• 4. Finally a 30 min coffee with the CEO, with the opportunity to meet other members of the team
• Note: first stage interviews will commence during December and run through to early January.