Director of People Operations, Kargo
$150-200k
4-5 days a week in office
Mobile advertisement platform
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Mobile advertisement platform
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
$150-200k
4-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Kargo's mission is to empower advertisers to break convention and build connections with consumers on the most important screen today—the phone.
Role
Who you are
- 7 + years of progressive HR experience
- Proven experience leading HRBPs and people operations in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
- Deep expertise in organizational design, change management, and talent strategy
- Strong knowledge of employment laws and HR compliance frameworks (global experience a plus)
- Exceptional leadership, communication, and stakeholder management skills
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or related field; Master's or MBA preferred
- HR certifications (e.g., SHRM-SCP, SPHR) are a plus
What the job involves
- We are seeking a strategic and experienced Director of People to lead our HR business partner function, elevate people operations, and drive enterprise-wide organizational design initiatives
- In this critical leadership role, you will be a key architect of scalable people strategies that enable growth, foster culture, and enhance business performance
- Strategic Business Partnership:
- Serve as a senior advisor to department leaders, providing insights on workforce planning, talent strategy, and organizational effectiveness
- Collaborate with leadership to align HR initiatives with business objectives across multiple departments and global locations
- Lead a team of HR Business Partners (HRBPs) to deliver high-impact support to business units
- People Operations Leadership:
- Oversee the design and execution of core people processes, including onboarding, HRIS management, compliance, and employee lifecycle operations
- Implement data-driven solutions to optimize operational efficiency and enhance employee experience
- Ensure all people operations are compliant with federal, state, and international employment laws
- Organizational Design & Development:
- Lead the strategy, design, and implementation of scalable organizational structures that align with business objectives, enable cross-functional collaboration, and support Kargo’s ongoing growth and transformation
- Serve as a trusted partner to senior and cross-functional leadership in assessing organizational effectiveness, identifying capability gaps, and designing future-ready operating models
- Develop and execute enterprise-wide change management strategies to support structural shifts, business transformations, and cultural evolution
- Drive end-to-end talent planning initiatives, including company-wide talent reviews, succession planning, workforce planning, and leadership development programs to build a strong internal pipeline and ensure long-term organizational resilience
- Champion a data-driven approach to organizational development, leveraging insights to inform strategic workforce decisions and foster a high-performance culture
- Leadership & Culture:
- Champion a diverse, inclusive, and equitable workplace culture through values-based leadership and policy development
- Collaborate with Learning & Development and DEIB leaders to foster employee engagement and continuous development
- Lead strategic HR projects including M&A integration, internal mobility frameworks, and performance management redesigns
Our take
The way in which advertisers reach out to their audiences has changed dramatically over the last decade, primarily due to the invention of the smartphone. Whilst mobile ads have existed since the beginning of smartphones, most rely on technology that was built for desktops, resulting in bad advertising and missed opportunities.
Kargo provides a mobile advertising platform for marketers and publishers, helping them to deliver better business outcomes by leveraging advertising technology designed specifically for mobile. The company achieves this by directly integrating optimized impressions from the best-performing publishers within its specialized supply, using tangible identity metrics to analyze and improve advertiser KPIs, and overall facilitating personalized and mobile-optimized advertising.
The company acquired Videobyte (a video advertising platform for Connected TV) in early 2023 to expand operations into the relatively young digital TV industry and its lucrative TV formats. Bringing video, publisher tools, and unique formats to Kargo's omnichannel, this acquisition indicates a diversification of mediums for the advertising provider, who already has a firm grip on both mobile and desktop advertising platforms.
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Insights
20% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Company HQ
Lower Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Karry Kargman
(CEO)Experience as Corporate Business Developer for Intel Venture and Corporate Strategist for Intertainer.
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