Head of People, Very Good Security
$200-230k
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
Job no longer available
Security and compliance infrastructure platform
201-500 employees
Job no longer available
$200-230k
201-500 employees
Company mission
To protect the world’s sensitive data, enabling innovation while ensuring security and privacy.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a Head of People/HR or other HR Leadership role, working closely with leadership teams to build and scale a values-driven, high-performance team
- Experience helping a high-growth, tech-forward, fast-paced environment evolve People practices for scale and maturity
- Experience quickly and proactively diagnosing challenges and opportunities, strategizing solutions and implementing change
- Track record of mentoring, growing and developing talent into leadership
- Strong leadership skills with a high sense of urgency and proactive decision-making capabilities
- Experience developing People strategy and initiatives for a complex, global workforce
- Meaningful experience across all areas of HR, including total rewards, talent acquisition, manager enablement, compliance and employee relations, L&D, performance management, culture-building, and organizational design
- Proven success supporting an organization through evaluation and implementation of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging initiatives within a tech-forward organization
- Superb communication skills, business acumen, and coaching, and the ability to thrive in a fast-paced and constantly evolving environment
- A habit of thinking strategically and collaboratively so that People Operations appropriately scales to meet the growing business needs
What the job involves
- As the Head of People at Very Good Security, you will act as a strategic partner to our leadership team by owning the People functions (People Operations and Talent Acquisition) that support our fast-paced, evolving environment and our employee population
- Reporting to the CEO, and as a member of the leadership team, you will build and evolve people programs that align with business objectives and play a pivotal role in our growth
- You will have the opportunity to autonomously build and evolve alongside an enthusiastically supportive leadership team, with the support of world class investors and advisors
- We are looking for someone with a strong strategic business outlook who thrives in an ever-changing ecosystem and is willing to contribute wherever necessary
- Partner with the senior leadership team to collaboratively set and execute on the long-term vision and strategy for key People initiatives
- Build, evolve and champion core HR functions for scale in a remote-first environment, including talent management, learning and development, talent acquisition, diversity & inclusion, total rewards, culture-building, employee communications, manager enablement, organizational design and compliance, and performance management
- Lead a talented group of People Operations and Talent Acquisition team members
- Serve as a champion for company culture and core values across the organization to ensure our culture thrives during growth
- Develop strong partnership with CEO and leadership team, and collaborate on leadership of people-first and cutting edge People Operations initiatives
Our take
As scaling businesses grow, data security can take a back seat. Very Good Security takes the pressure off by assuming liability for sensitive data and ensuring compliance with one simple integration. It's an enticing proposition that enables its customers to get to market faster while offloading the risks of data custodianship.
VGS’s secured vaults and zero-data approach means clients don’t have to become security geniuses themselves and instead can focus on what’s unique to their business. Competing against TokenEx, HP’s Voltage, Thales’ Vormetric, and more VGS is trying to disrupt the do-it-yourself status quo of the data security industry. VGS also expedites certifications against PCI DSS, SOC2, and GDPR requirements, and reduces the total cost of compliance by up to 70 percent.
VGS has already attracted significant investment as well as an impressive set of customers (including Brex and Deliveroo). With more companies looking for tailored solutions as they transition to the cloud, VGS is developing several new capabilities to further automate compliance controls for customers on its platform.
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Insights
-1% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2020
$60m
SERIES C
Oct 2019
$35m
SERIES B
Total funding: $103.5m
Company benefits
- Competitive health benefits including medical, dental, & vision insurance
- VGS stock options
- 401k plan, with employer matching 4% and immediate vesting of employer match
- Life & disability insurance
- Pre-tax flexible spending accounts (dependent and healthcare FSA)
- Flexible work hours and flexible PTO
- 11 US company holidays
- Eligibility for health benefits starts on Day 1!
- New hire home office set up allowance
- Professional learning reimbursement
Company HQ
Tenderloin, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Mahmoud Abdelkader
(Co-Founder)They started their career as a CSC Consulting Software Engineer before 2 years as the ModelsHotel.com CIO and working at Wachovia and eBay. They co-founded Balanced in 2011, leaving their CTO position in 2015 to co-found Very Good Security in April 2016.
Marshall Jones
(Co-Founder)They are a seasoned engineer who has built countless products in the fintech industry. Formerly VP of Engineering at Balanced, a payment system for marketplaces.
Chuck Yu
(CEO)Previously CRO at DriveWealth, Vice President of Digital Partnerships at Visa and Head of Finance and Operations at Point.
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