Director of People, Mantra Health
$170-175k
OTE
+ Stock Options
Digital mental healthcare clinic for students
Be an early applicant
Digital mental healthcare clinic for students
101-200 employees
Be an early applicant
$170-175k
OTE
+ Stock Options
101-200 employees
Company mission
To improve young peoples' mental healthcare access through clinical services, software, and design.
Role
Who you are
- HR Generalist Expertise: 5+ years of experience across the full spectrum of HR functions, with a mix of operational excellence and strategic contributions. Operating experience in other functions is highly valued
- Builder and Problem Solver: Thrive in a fast-paced, startup environment where you can build processes and systems from scratch while maintaining flexibility and adaptability
- Data-driven and Process Oriented: You look to data to drive decisions and orient to systems and processes to ensure consistency, repeatability, and scalability
- Multi-Entity Knowledge: Familiarity with multi-entity structures in healthcare or similarly regulated industries, with an ability to ensure compliance and smooth operations across jurisdictions
- Collaborative Change Agent: Proven ability to work cross-functionally with diverse teams, fostering trust, alignment, and teamwork. You grasp context and nuance while driving forward change that sticks
- Values-Driven: Deeply aligned with Mantra’s mission, vision, and values, with a strong commitment to improving mental health care access and outcomes
- Eager Learner: Excited to receive mentorship and develop as a strategic leader with support from an experienced Chief People Officer
- The ideal candidate will have the ability to navigate this complexity and support a highly diverse and distributed workforce while leveraging our existing PEO platform (JustWorks)
What the job involves
- We are seeking a Director of People to lead our people operations and strategy as we grow. This role is a unique blend of hands-on operational HR execution and strategic leadership, touching every aspect of the employee lifecycle
- You will be responsible for establishing new systems and refining existing infrastructure to support the scalable growth of our People Operations
- As a technology-powered healthcare delivery company with a multi-entity structure—comprising a corporate entity and a professional corporation (PC)—Mantra’s workforce spans engineers, marketers, clinicians, and clinical operations teams
- This position also offers a unique opportunity to be mentored by a seasoned healthcare startup fractional Chief People Officer, who will provide onboarding support and ongoing development opportunities through 2025
- You will have support of our Operations Coordinator who also supports Marketing and Finance
- People Operations Excellence: Oversee core HR operations, including payroll, benefits, compliance, and employee data management, leveraging Mantra’s PEO (JustWorks)
- Manage the complexities of a multi-entity structure (corporate entity and PC) to ensure compliance across jurisdictions while maintaining smooth operations for a diverse team of clinicians, engineers, marketers, and operations professionals
- Performance and Career Development: Partner with our Leadership Team and our fractional Chief People Officer to build transparent systems for career growth, role expectations, and performance management
- In this partnership, you’ll run performance management and develop structures to support employees’ professional aspirations and provide managers with coaching and tools to guide their teams effectively
- Compliance and Best Practices: Ensure compliance with labor laws, policies, and regulations while maintaining best practices across all HR processes
- Culture and Employee Engagement: Drive initiatives to foster connection and alignment to Mantra’s core values, creating a thriving workplace culture that supports team members from diverse backgrounds
- Talent Acquisition and Onboarding: Partner with our talent acquisition team in recruitment efforts to attract and onboard exceptional talent, ensuring an inclusive and high-quality candidate experience
- Manager Enablement: Provide hands-on training and tools to empower managers to lead effectively, covering areas such as coaching, feedback, and professional development
- Strategic Partnering: Collaborate with leadership to design and implement people strategies that align with organizational goals and priorities
Our take
The United States is in the midst of a pressing mental health crisis, affecting a vast number of college students nationwide. The repercussions of students not receiving the necessary support are dire, often resulting in academic dropouts or even severe crises.
Mantra Health has stepped in to provide a digital mental health counseling platform aimed at college and university students in the US. It operates as a kind of bridge between college counseling services and mental health professionals. Acting as a supplement for counseling offices rather than a replacement, it has helped gain customers from a whole host of reputable universities including Penn State and MIT.
With a fresh injection of substantial funding, Mantra Health is gearing up to expand its workforce and forge partnerships with more insurance providers. These strategic moves aim to alleviate the financial burden currently shouldered by universities and further enhance the accessibility of mental health support for students
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
31% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Mar 2023
$5m
SERIES A
Jan 2022
$22m
SERIES A
Total funding: $35.4m
Company benefits
- Equity
- Medical, vision, and dental coverage for employees, spouses, and dependents
- 401k
- Flexible work location (work from the Bahamas for a few weeks? Cool by us)
- Unlimited PTO
- Inclusive parental leave, equal for all parents
- $1,000 new-parent mental wellness benefit
- Commuter card, if you commute
- Access to One Medical
- Healthcare & Dependent Care FSA
- Free access to remote & in-person wellness classes via our co-working space
Company HQ
Rose Hill, New York, NY
Leadership
Ed Gaussen
(Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Mantra Health, was Chief Growth Officer at Tinder, Board Observer at democratized cryptocurrency brokerage Safello, as well as an Analyst and Associate at VC White Star Capital.
Ravi N. Shah, MD, MBA
(Co-Founder)Chief Innovation Officer, Department of Psychiatry, at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. Clinical Advisor at online alcoholism treatment platform Tempest, and mental healthtech startup Two Chairs.
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