Head of People, Gigs
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Telecom as a Service
Job no longer available
Telecom as a Service
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
Plus stock options
More information about location
21-100 employees
Company mission
To provide voice & data plans for smartphones, wearables and IoT.
Role
Who you are
- You've scaled Culture & People Operations before. You have been in Culture & People Operations at companies that have grown from 50 to hundreds. You understand that each stage of growth requires different strategies and are excited to leverage the right structure and strategy at the right moment
- You love connecting with many different people. You want to find just the right cultural fit for our growing team and are excited to foster a vibrant and happy team. You have an innate ability to build a resilient community and know that this means valuing diversity and equality
- You're a natural coach and mentor. You have the ability to foster relationships among a diverse team, to relate well with others, listen effectively, and help employees at all levels achieve their development goals
- You love structure and processes. You get excited about building resilient structures and know when to leverage the right tools for success. You know that hyper-growth and scale don't come without hiccups, and can quickly trade-off between long-term strategies and efficiency processes
What the job involves
- You'll be a trusted leader, working closely with the co-founders and team leads to design and implement the Gigs' people strategy to optimize growth, productivity, engagement, and happiness across all employees. You'll be the champion of a remote hybrid team.
- You'll own the entire function related to talent, people development, culture, and HR for a hybrid remote team to help us scale from 70 to 150 and beyond
- Head of People is a cross-functional role responsible for ensuring implementation of strategic initiatives across the People & Culture function in our business
- Be a strategic People Partner to senior leaders in our business, helping to develop and execute our People and Talent strategy
- Build, develop, and lead high-performing teams in our 3 tech hubs (Berlin, London, and San-Francisco, and guide/motivate them to supercharge business performance
- Collaborate with management teams and Centres of Excellence to align People initiatives with organizational needs
- Co-create organisational development and management strategies, and roll out initiatives aimed at increasing organisational effectiveness
- Manage organisational changes in an agile fashion, getting buy-in and commitment, understanding the impact on employees and bring them along the change journey through communication and enablement
- Facilitate performance review sessions, provide guidance and coaching to leaders on managing performance and feedback discussions
- Drive talent planning and succession planning exercise
- Obtain insights and new requirements to iterate and evolve Gigs’s performance culture and journey
- Conduct training needs analysis and propose training plans that meet business priorities as well as employees’ professional development needs
- Serve as the cross-functional partner in aligning business needs, and workforce, hiring planning processes
- Guide senior leaders in making rewards decisions using performance and business data and insights, and in alignment with our total rewards philosophy and market competitiveness
- Leverage data and insights, propose and track action plans to address and improve engagement
- Analyse attrition data to identify trends and correlations, and make recommendations to increase talent attraction and retention rates
- Leading and improving the overall management of our employee lifecycle, from onboarding to career transitions, and delivering excellent employee experience through seamless and efficient execution of each step
- Provide insights on requirements for critical HR and technology projects, support business case scenarios to drive the betterment of employee experience and HR service delivery
Our take
Gigs is a telecommunication platform that helps businesses that want to provide connectivity to their customers without becoming fully-fledged connectivity providers.
As a Y Combinator W21 batch, Gigs distinguishes itself by offering phone & data plans through an easy-to-use API. The company provides phone & data plans through BT, Vodafone, T Mobile, Orange, Verizon, and hundreds of other networks. It has additionally launched an eSIM mobile service in partnership with Grover.
The company is backed by Gradient Ventures, Google, and Crane Venture Partners, as well as some of the investors behind Stripe, Airbnb, Facebook, Spotify and Plaid. Gigs' has been increasing its client base internationally and continues to do so through its growing number of partnerships and its planned European expansion.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Company
Funding (last 2 of 3 rounds)
Dec 2024
$73m
SERIES B
Sep 2022
$20m
SERIES A
Total funding: $93.2m
Company benefits
- 28 paid vacation days per year (PTO)
- Generous stock options: We want everybody to be a true owner in Gigs (tax-free until exercised)
- Free phone and data plan
- Flexible working hours: We use meetings when needed and not per default
- Get your perfect setup: Mac, Mechanical Keyboard, Plugins, IDE. We are flexible and cover whatever you need to do the best work of your life
- A workplace built for remote-first work: We are building Gigs as a remote-friendly company. Take, own and implement decisions to build Gigs from scratch. You can join us in Berlin, or work from wherever you like. If you are based in Berlin, you can work from our office, or from the comfort of your home
- Gigs Pads: Our collection of beautiful homes around the world, for when you need a work-cation getaway
- Gigs Republic: Our semi-annual sunny offsite, a time for us to all come together for great food, lots of laughter, and leisurely activities
Company HQ
Mitte, Berlin, Germany
Leadership
Hermann Frank
(Co-Founder)Previously Founder/CEO at Fashionism, Flagship and HyperMesh. Consultant at Forward Consulting for 1 year.
Dennis Bauer
(Co-Founder)Dennis previously co-founded HyperMesh. They were also Head of Business Development at Bonagora and was also Head of conichiwa for over 2 years.
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