Chief People Officer, Figure
$250-300k
+ RSUs + 25% annual bonus target, paid quarterly
Blockchain-powered digital lender
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Blockchain-powered digital lender
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
$250-300k
+ RSUs + 25% annual bonus target, paid quarterly
201-500 employees
Company mission
Figure's mission is to transform financial services through blockchain, bringing speed, efficiency and savings to both consumers and institutions.
Role
Who you are
- 15+ years of progressive HR and People leadership experience, with significant time leading at the executive level
- Experience operating as a CPO, Head of People, or equivalent leader within a high-growth, fast-paced organization
- HR leadership experience at a publicly traded company, with clear understanding of public company governance and regulatory expectations
- Prior experience integrating people operations with business growth strategies and curiosity to understand company’s innovative products
- Proven ability to develop and execute people strategies that support scale, transformation, and long-term company health
- Prior experience supporting and scaling a large hourly employee population
- Deep expertise across organizational design, talent strategy, leadership development, compensation (including equity-based compensation) and employee experience
- Exceptional executive communication skills with the ability to influence, align, and drive outcomes across diverse stakeholders
- High emotional intelligence, sound judgment, and a people-first mindset grounded in strategic thinking
- Demonstrated experience leading through change and building resilient, healthy organizations
- Strong analytical background with the ability to use data to guide decisions, forecast needs, and measure success
- A track record of building cultures rooted in trust, accountability, performance, and empathy
What the job involves
- As the Chief People Officer, you will serve as a strategic leader and the steward of our people, culture, and organizational health, and will report to the Chief Financial Officer as part of the executive leadership team
- You will define and lead the entire people strategy, ensuring we build a high-performance, mission-aligned organization where employees feel supported, empowered, and inspired to do their best work
- This role spans talent strategy, organizational design, leadership development, compensation and rewards, employee experience, workforce planning, operations, and culture while championing a people-first approach that enables us to scale with clarity, cohesion, and excellence
- The CPO will play a pivotal role in shaping the company’s long-term direction by ensuring our people practices, structures, and philosophy reinforce who we are and who we aspire to become
- Develop a comprehensive, long-term people strategy aligned with company mission, goals, and growth
- Serve as the principal advisor to the executive team on all organizational and people-related matters
- Lead and elevate the People team, providing mentorship, strategic guidance, and clear operational direction
- Build and reinforce a diverse, inclusive, equitable culture where employees feel valued and are able to contribute meaningfully
- Oversee talent acquisition and leadership hiring, ensuring a strong pipeline and succession strategy for mission-critical roles
- Drive organizational design initiatives that support scale, efficiency, clarity, and cross-functional effectiveness
- Strengthen leadership capabilities across the organization through coaching, development programs, and performance enablement
- Establish and refine compensation, equity, and rewards frameworks that are competitive, fair, and aligned with business strategy
- Oversee benefits and wellness programs that support the full spectrum of employee well-being
- Lead change management initiatives that help teams navigate transformation with clarity and confidence
- Ensure compliance with local, state, and federal employment laws while anticipating regulatory shifts and evolving workforce needs
- Create a data-driven culture within People Operations, leveraging analytics to measure engagement, inform decisions, and drive continuous improvement
- Implement systems, tools, and technologies that streamline operations and enhance the employee experience end-to-end
- Champion employee engagement and retention strategies that reinforce a high-trust, high-performance organization
Our take
Figure handles loans and mortgaging. They are disrupting manual compensation surveys and traditional industry software with their blockchain platform, Provenance, which works as a registry, ledger, and exchange.
The company has branched from offering student loans into many products such as mortgages, personal loans, blockchain-based private credit and private investment opportunities. In 2020, they started seeking a national bank charter to simplify their business and offer better security.
The company is focusing on building blockchain-backed solutions and now offers its customers the option to leverage their cryptocurrency assets to get loans or mortgages and is one of the only companies to do so. Figure is betting heavily on the success of the $1 trillion cryptocurrency market and blockchain industry, and laid off 20% of its staff in July 2023 in preparation for an IPO bid. This IPO is targeted specifically at Figure's lending division, which saw massive growth over 2022 and 2023.
Freddie
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
-15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
May 2021
$200m
SERIES D
Dec 2019
$103m
SERIES C
Total funding: $418m
Company benefits
- Continuing education stipend
- Paid parental leave
- Flexible paid time off
- Stock options
- Work from home opportunities
- Health insurance
Company HQ
Chinatown, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mike Cagney
(Executive Chair)After Master's at Stanford, Mike spent almost 6 years as Chairman of ReFlow Services and co-founding Social Finance in 2011. He used this experience to co-found Figure in January 2018, serving since as CEO.
June Ou
(President)Having studied at Stanford and founded CCO Solutions, June spent 5 years at Social Finance with Mike, rising to VP of Product Management. She left this position in October 2017 to co-found Figure the following January.
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