Lead of People & Culture Mergers & Acquisition Integration, Compass
$123.6-141k
5 days a week in office
Real estate technology platform
Be an early applicant
Real estate technology platform
1001+ employees
Be an early applicant
$123.6-141k
5 days a week in office
1001+ employees
Company mission
To help everyone find their place in the world.
Role
Who you are
- We are looking for a high-energy, strategic, and solutions-driven HR leader with strong business acumen, exceptional stakeholder management skills, and deep HR M&A expertise to help build and scale Compass’ growing organization
- Bachelor’s degree and 4+ year of experience in HR M&A; human capital consulting experience a plus
- Self-starters with track records of excellence across strategic, operational, and detail-demanding functional responsibilities
- Ability to operate, exercise judgment and solve difficult problems without direct supervision
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced and dynamic environment
- Articulate in both verbal and written communication
- Ability to effectively lead meetings
- Highly organized; ability to multi-task and handle multiple deadlines simultaneously
- High energy and positive attitude
- Program and project management experience - drives critical projects and initiatives from conception to completion
- Leverages data insights in decision making - shares and uses data effectively to demonstrate risk areas within the organization
- Strong business acumen - Understands organizational dynamics and can communicate with senior leadership effectively. Anticipates business needs to build out proactive strategic solution
- Agile. You’re an expert multi-tasker, independently prioritizing and ensuring all needs are met. You keep calm even when there’s a lot to do
- Conflict resolution - Critical conduit to managing competing personalities in the organization
- Problem solving - Uses critical thinking to evaluate problems, gather information, and seeks to understand root causes
- Uses sound judgment - Grounds all decisions in facts, effectively uses data insights and applies rationale common sense thinking to assess situations
- Empathetic and engaging
- Builds and fosters relationships - Purposefully develops networks to build value through collaboration by fostering trust and building credibility with stakeholders. Demonstrates interest in learning more about key stakeholders, seeks to understand by asking questions, sharing pertinent information
- Integrity. You understand how to handle confidential information and sensitive issues
- Solutions-driven. You believe there’s a way you can solve any challenge. You understand and are energized by the impact of ensuring employee needs are constantly met. You take pride in delivering timely and thorough service and outstanding follow-up
- Change agent. Has the professional maturity and resilience capability to drive and reinforce change and manage stakeholders and advocate where appropriate
- Accountable. Hold yourself accountable for your commitments, actions and decisions, as well as those who report to you. Escalates if something cannot get done in a timely manager, communicate to reset expectations
What the job involves
- As the Lead, People & Culture M&A Integration, you will play a pivotal role in shaping and executing Compass’ People & Culture strategy for mergers and acquisitions (M&A)
- This role is critical in supporting the company’s growth by guiding HR integration efforts, ensuring seamless transitions for employee populations, and aligning acquired teams within Compass’ culture, values, and business objectives
- You will act as a trusted advisor and subject matter expert, providing leadership, project management, and strategic guidance to business leaders throughout the M&A lifecycle
- You will work to support the Director and Senior Manager of P&C M&A to uphold best practice and policy to drive successful integrations while championing Compass’ people-first culture
- As part of the People & Culture M&A Integration team, you will collaborate with Compass leadership and cross-functional partners to participate in HR due diligence and integration execution
- Your responsibilities will include creating and maintaining HR M&A project plans, decision frameworks, and documentation best practices to ensure efficiency and alignment across teams
- You will also collaborate with local P&C Business Partners to ensure a smooth transition of the acquired employees and hand-off post integration
- Be a strategic and trusted advisor to the leadership we support, with client management and relationship building at the forefront of everything you do
- Provide leadership with guidance and best practices to support change management as a part of Mergers & Acquisitions
- You will serve as a bridge between the P&C department and internal stakeholders (M&A central team, Legal, Payroll, FP&A)
- Roll out programs and processes that improve the department’s M&A strategy
- Build compliance into all we do, including maintaining in depth knowledge of company policy and processes and legal requirements
Our take
Compass uses an AI-driven platform to smooth out and speed up the process of buying, selling, or renting property. It functions much like a traditional broker, but employs tech to reduce the time, uncertainty, cost and friction of transactions for buyers, sellers & agents.
It's disrupting a sector so far largely averse to tech innovation, allowing users to close deals in less time than the industry average of 30-45 days. Compass is now the largest independent real estate brokerage in the USA, with over 29,000 agents nationwide.
Despite being a leading residential brokerage and competing well, Compass has remained unprofitable. While the company is replanning its cost structure to be profitable over the next year, it announced its third round of payoffs in early January 2023. Its profit-generating plans include expanding into mortgages, escrow & title services.
Freddie
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Insights
15% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 9 rounds)
Jul 2019
$370m
SERIES G
Sep 2018
$400m
SERIES F
Total funding: $1.5bn
Company benefits
- Flexible Working
- Work From Home Opportunities
- Paid Vacation, Holidays, Sick Time
- Paid Parental, Marriage, and Recharge Leave
- Medical, Tele-Health, Dental and Vision Benefits
- 401(k) Plan
- Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs)
- Commuter Program
- Life and disability insurance
- Maven (a support system for new parents)
- Carrot (fertility benefits)
- UrbanSitter (caregiver referral network)
- Employee Assistance Program
- Pet Insurance
Company HQ
Midtown Manhattan, New York, NY
Leadership
Robert Reffkin
(CEO)After 2 years at McKinsey, Robert worked as a Lazard Associate and White House Fellow. They joined Goldman Sachs in 2006, where they worked as VP of Principal Investment before leaving in 2012 to found Compass. Alongside this, Robert ran 50 marathons in 50 states to raise $1 million dollars for for youth education and enrichment programs.
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