People Manager/Head/Director, Parkade
$165-190k
Plus 0.05% – 0.07% equity
More information about location
4 days a week in office
Parking management solution
Open for applications
Parking management solution
21-100 employees
Open for applications
$165-190k
Plus 0.05% – 0.07% equity
More information about location
4 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To create a more liveable, more affordable, more mobile world - with far fewer parking spots.
Role
Who you are
- We want someone who can thoughtfully adapt enterprise-level policies to our agile, entrepreneurial environment while preserving what makes our culture special
- 6+ years of experience in a people role at technology companies
- At least 3-4 years in a generalist and manager role, and at least one year spent as the sole people hire at a technology startup
- Experience with:
- A PEO (Professional Employer Organization) like Justworks
- A mixed hourly-and-salaried workforce
- A significant California-based employee base, plus some remote
- Successful rollout of many different people changes across a wide range of areas
- Bachelor's degree
- Preferred Qualifications
- 10+ years of people experience
- Experience personally doing recruiting and sourcing
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification
What the job involves
- We are looking for a Manager/Director/Head of People (title varies by experience) to help us scale our 40+ person team to 100 employees and beyond. We imagine this role will likely be 70% HR and 30% recruiting. You’ll get a budget for recruiting/sourcing help or hires as needed
- In this role, you will own our entire people function, including HR, recruiting and onboarding. You will be the architect of our team, owning five key areas:
- People operations
- Policies & compliance
- Feedback
- Hiring process
- Culture
- Own HRIS administration, payroll coordination, and benefits offering and enrollment
- Generate workforce analytics and insights to inform business decisions
- Manage the employee lifecycle from offer letter to offboarding
- Quarterback all new employee onboardings — ensuring a basic level of consistency for everyone on things like onboarding checklists, 30-60-90 plans, etc while weaving in contextual steps that will vary by role
- Investigate and resolve employee relations issues with fairness, confidentiality, and sound judgment
- Manage accommodation requests, any and all leaves, workplace investigations, and disciplinary processes
- Be the internal owner of our benefits package, advocating and implementing for the changes you want to see, while balancing costs
- Ensure compliance with employment law, all workforce classifications, and ethical standards
- Own and sort out any compliance, insurance and benefits issues we run into with our employee base, which is half in California and half spread throughout the country
- Create a culture of accountability where performance standards are clear and the bar is held high
- Ensure that feedback is regularly flowing in all directions — downwards, upwards and peer to peer
- Develop and train our people managers through programming and direct feedback, including guiding them through any performance plans their direct reports may need
- Navigate the delicate balance between startup autonomy and corporate requirements
- Own configuring our ATS (Ashby) for our recruiting and hiring process, from the job post, to the interview steps, to permissions
- Partner with leadership on workforce planning, organizational design, and succession planning
- Plug in with all hiring managers to ensure they know how to open reqs, post roles and run a Parkade hiring process
- As you and our leadership team determine recruiting needs, bring in help — full time, part time, consultant, etc — to source candidates, coordinate the process and recruit great talent. We expect you need to help if we have anything more than 1-2 junior roles open
- Work closely with the founders, our leaders and individual hires to keep Parkade a wonderfully weird, wacky and fun place to work, even as we grow
- Help maintain, and add, traditions — including finding more ways to celebrate wins as a company or within teams
- Build trust across the organization as the face of HR, people, talent, and culture
Application process
- 30 mins with CEO (.5 hrs)
- Deeper dive (1.75hrs)
- 45 mins with Head of Finance
- 60 mins with Director of Special Projects
- Panel (4.5 hrs)
- 15 min exercise prep
- 45 mins of recruiting live exercise
- 60 mins of walkthrough/working session of first 90 days
- 30 min culture interview
- 30 mins VP of Operations or CRO
- 30 min CTO interview
- 1 hour final CEO interview
Our take
Inefficiencies in the way parking is handled, especially in the US, have led to an overabundance of parking lots taking up land that could be better used by communities. Parkade aims to revolutionize parking at offices and apartment buildings with its parking spot reservation and management app.
With the Parkade app for tenant buildings, users can reserve, change, pay for, share and report problems with their parking spots. Its automated parking spot leasing covers any duration of lease, and expands parking capacity by making it simple to share unused spaces. The company's offering for offices enables businesses to switch their parking facilities to a lease model, giving them better control over how parking space is utilized in their lots.
With the ultimate aim to enable future structures to be built with less parking, Parkade has set its sight on real impact for city planning and optimized spaces. Funds raised by the company are cited to help broaden and accelerate product development, as well as fuel a period of aggressive expansion.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2025
$10m
SERIES A
Jun 2022
$6.7m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $16.7m
Company benefits
- Competitive compensation: Along with a market-aligned salary, early employees will get a significant ownership stake in Parkade to share in our success.
- Impactful, mission-driven work: As an early employee, you’ll help shape our mission and get to live it every day through work that makes an impact.
- Benefits: Full-time employees get medical, dental, and vision insurance along with other benefits to support your health and wellbeing.
- Flexible vacation: Time off of work is imperative; we trust you to take what you need to strike your balance.
- Hybrid workplace: We're excited to grow our vibrant, hybrid San Francisco HQ team, as well as our awesome remote team.
Company HQ
Mission District, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Evan Goldin
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously served as the Senior Director of Product Management and Design at Chariot and as a Product Manager at Lyft.
Ben Plowman
(Co-Founder & CTO)Previously an Engineering Manager at Getaround and a Mobile Engineer at Ning.
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