Director of People Operations, Apollo

$182.8-215k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level
Remote in Canada, US

Will require some travel

Apollo

GraphQL developer platform

Be an early applicant

Apollo

GraphQL developer platform

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSAPIData IntegrationDevOps

Be an early applicant

$182.8-215k

+ Equity

Senior and Expert level
Remote in Canada, US

Will require some travel

201-500 employees

B2BEnterpriseSaaSAPIData IntegrationDevOps

Company mission

To make application development easier, better, and accessible to more people by building open source tools and commercial services.

Role

Who you are

  • As our new Head of People Operations and Total Rewards, you bring a wealth of experience in a few areas:
  • Building enormously successful, motivated, and engaged teams
  • A creative leader with keen business acumen
  • Passion for technology that enables great work
  • Creating an insanely great workplace culture
  • Leading, shaping, and scaling all total rewards, people operations, systems, and data
  • If you’re a leader who leads without ego, has a growth mindset, and leans into action, you’ll thrive at Apollo
  • 7+ years of progressive experience in people operations, systems, people analytics, and People team technology, with at least 5 years in a leadership role, owning the POps strategy
  • Previous experience as Head of People Operations at a similar global company in size and structure
  • A solid operational background with the ability to leverage technology in building an efficient user experience
  • Demonstrated experience in taking things from "scrappy" to "scaled" in a resource-constrained and dynamic environment
  • Demonstrated expertise in people analytics and the ability to digest data and pull out insights, but also understand where the data comes from and how to optimize systems to support its digestion
  • Strong people analytical skill set with an ability to create metrics and dashboards to interpret data, analyze trends, and make data-driven decisions
  • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, and adept at creating compelling narratives to communicate value and drive growth plans. Ability to collaborate effectively with stakeholders at all levels of the organization
  • An unyielding passion for providing the ultimate employee experience and serving as a model of Apollo’s values in the experience of cross-functional partners working with the team

Desirable

  • Compensation and benefits experience a plus
  • Experience with public company readiness is a plus

What the job involves

  • The leader of our small but mighty POps team has the opportunity to shape the function as a strategic bulwark, enabling scale and growth while focused tightly on making Apollo a place where people can do their best work
  • We’re looking for that special someone who has a passion for simplifying complex processes and building with the end in mind
  • You will report to the Chief People Officer and be a vital member of the People Leadership team, for our fully global distributed workforce
  • Lead, mentor, and develop your team, fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, transparency, and continuous improvement
  • Provide guidance, support, and resources to empower team members to excel in their roles and contribute to overall departmental success
  • Collaborate with senior leadership to align People operations initiatives with organizational objectives and priorities
  • Serve as a subject matter expert and trusted advisor to leaders on matters related to compensation, benefits, and People operations
  • Occasionally step in as interim team leader when the Chief People Officer is unavailable
  • Develop and implement a comprehensive people technology strategy that aligns with the organization's talent and business goals
  • Coordinate our teams to deliver scaled programs and projects and innovate quickly with a smooth, simple, end-to-end user experience
  • Sponsor the development and implementation of a comprehensive people systems infrastructure and roadmap, becoming the central owner across various enterprise and productivity tools across the People team
  • Evaluate and optimize People processes to improve efficiency and scalability
  • Monitor People metrics and implement data-driven strategies for continuous improvement
  • Manage relationships with external vendors, consultants, and brokers to optimize the delivery of compensation and benefits services and control costs
  • Lead immigration and visa strategy, supporting international assignments and global talent acquisition
  • Stay up to date with local, national, and international laws, regulations, and best practices related to people management, compensation, and benefits to ensure compliance and minimize risks
  • Build the toolsets to extract meaningful data from all facets of People team work
  • Utilize data from multiple sources to deeply analyze programs, processes, and people metrics
  • Present findings in simple-to-understand, meaningful ways, along with recommendations gleaned from the results

Our take

Apollo provides technology to help startups and enterprises build apps using GraphQL. It provides the data graph layer connecting modern apps to the cloud, and is the industry standard implementation for GraphQL.

Apollo claims that GraphQL wins out over competing REST APIs by offering a slicker, more bug-resistant service that does not require complex data fetching code. Certainly, the benefits of GraphQL become apparent with more complex web services or mobile applications, and this is the direction in which companies are increasingly headed as business shifts online. As such, it is unsurprising that Apollo count PayPal, New York Times, and Walmart among a roster of high-profile clients.

In recent years, Apollo has shifted online and its products are in high demand. Due to this, the company has both the resources and the strong industry reputation to continue offering it at the highest grade. Its 2022 launch of "Supergraph", a software layer designed to unify disparate data feeds and create one source for front-end developers, is a good demonstration of the company's continued dedication to innovating.

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Top investors

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back within 2 weeks

126% employee growth in 12 months

Company

Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)

Aug 2021

$130m

SERIES D

Jun 2019

$22m

SERIES C

Total funding: $183.2m

Company benefits

  • Flexible working hours
  • Generous time off
  • Parental leave
  • Medical, Dental, Vision, Life, and Disability insurance
  • 401(k)
  • Work from home opportunities
  • Virtual “coffee chats” and team lunches, and an AV setup specifically tailored for remote experience
  • Everyone-in-town weeks, where we fly all of our Apollo employees to San Francisco for an action packed week of work and play

Company values

  • We strive for excellence through candid and constructive feedback.
  • We are constantly teaching and learning from each other, allowing us to grow both professionally and personally.

Company HQ

SoMa, San Francisco, CA

Leadership

Co-founder & CEO of Meteor Development group and former software engineer at Asana.

Founder of ActBlue and Meteor Development group. Former Engineer at NetApp. MSc in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

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