Senior Director of HR & Workplace Experience, Betterment
$210-220k
3 days a week in office
Automated investing & financial planning
Job no longer available
Automated investing & financial planning
501-1000 employees
Job no longer available
$210-220k
3 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
To empower people to build wealth with confidence and ease.
Role
Who you are
- Demonstrated success translating the vision, purpose, and strategy of the business to design and implement a relevant and meaningful employee life cycle
- Experience building employee engagement in a distributed workforce across offices, as well as fully remote employees, having extensive experience in people development, coaching, and mentoring
- Ability to use People reporting & analytics in generating insights and presenting findings back to the business, as well as tracking and disseminating key data
- Demonstrated success in furthering company DEIB strategy and implementing initiatives that have resulted in measurable impact on employee engagement & retention
- Experience building successful people programs and initiatives, consensus, and comfortable having both strategic and tactical responsibilities
- Substantial knowledge of progressive HRBP leadership experience and employment laws and regulations
- Experience building strong, effective and trusted relationships and networks, ability to influence and articulate a variety of issues to different audiences, tailoring messages accordingly, as well as with incident management and emergency/crisis response teams and efforts
- Strong planning & project management skills centralized around employee development, stakeholder management, business acumen, and partnership; experience with forecasting, adhering to budgets and managing costs
- Expertise in anticipating issues across the organization and recognizing opportunities and proactively developing initiatives
What the job involves
- Build highly scalable processes through the employee lifecycle, including overseeing and leading the bi-annual performance review process, the annual engagement survey and action planning process while achieving ambitious engagement goals, and monitor progress and changes to keep senior leadership team informed of organizational health
- Identify key performance indicators for the human resources and workplace experience function and assess organization’s success and market competitiveness based on these metrics
- Enable Betterment’s employer value proposition and create actionable steps to position us as a top employer through people-centric best practices and promote employee engagement
- Provide both strategic and functional expertise, thought leadership and coaching as an active member of the People Leadership Team
- Leverage people data and analytics to ensure data-driven decision-making, incorporating feedback from engagement surveys, 1:1s, exit interviews, etc., creating effective people programs
- Develop an innovative and inclusive employee experience strategy for a scaling organization, enabling a thoughtful practice to meet department needs
- Identify risks and opportunities through the lens of the People community and make appropriate recommendations as to further the growth of the company
Our take
Betterment is an app-based investment platform that provides personal finance data and guidance to retail users through a range of real-world data and AI analytics to deliver investment advice to customers.
The company has become the largest independent digital investment advisor in the U.S. Having expanded its 401k business, Betterment has entered the world of Crypto, partnering with Gemini to offer customized crypto portfolios and its "Crypto Investing by Betterment" platform.
Betterment has a wealth of competition in this increasingly crowded space. Other robo advisors offering similar services include Moneyfarm, Wealth Simple, M1 Finance and Personal Capital. Going forward, Betterment hopes to further distance itself from rivals as it further innovates its platform.
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Insights
-6% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 7 rounds)
Sep 2021
$60m
SERIES F
Jul 2017
$70m
SERIES E
Total funding: $335m
Company benefits
- Get comprehensive medical, dental, and vision, plus a free subscription to One Medical.
- We encourage you to take time off (seriously) and get the rest you need to do your best work.
- Employees welcoming little ones are eligible for our robust parental leave policy after six months of employment.
- We offer a 401(k) match and a match on qualified student loan payments.
- Gain a stake in Betterment’s success with company equity grants.
- Snacks, beverages, and catered lunches at our NYC HQ.
- We provide LGBTQIA+ transition and fertility support.
- Make connections through seven employee affinity groups and a social calendar of hybrid events.
Company HQ
Chelsea, New York, NY
Leadership
Sarah Kirshbaum Levy
(CEO)Prior to joining Betterment in 2020, Sarah served as the COO for Viacom Media Networks.
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