Head of Operations, People

Loyal is developing drugs to extend dog lifespan; we aim to build the defining aging company. Loyal was founded in early 2020 and has raised over $50M from Khosla, First Round Capital, Collaborative Fund, Longevity Fund, Quiet Capital, BoxGroup, and more. Loyal is working on bringing to market the first drugs intended to extend lifespan (years of life) and healthspan (quality of life). We aspire to build a pharma brand people love around deeply technical products.  While we are currently focusing on dog drugs, our ultimate aim is to take what we learn in dogs to leapfrog into human aging drugs, and build the company that catalyzes and captures the public’s excitement around aging therapeutics.

We are hiring a Head of Operations with a focus on people. You will be managing the People Operations team and serve as a thought partner for the Director of People Operations.

Your day to day may include:

• • Work with the Director of People Operations to build out Loyal’s people and operations strategy utilizing data and analytical insights
  • Build out reports and dashboards to support the leadership team to make better informed decisions
  • Lead, coach and oversee a team
  • Manage third party relationships around compliance, benefits, payroll, accounting
  • Optimize systems and automate processes to support the people, and operations teams (HRIS- Rippling, ATS - Lever, LinkedIn Recruiter, Ramp, Lattice, Carta, ElectricAI)
  • Develop and build first in class onboarding program to support our expansion
  • Revamp and manage recruiting operations
  • Build out employee development framework (performance management, compensation to ensure fair pay across bands / organization, career trajectories)
  • Surface data /insights to help with strategic employee engagement and wellness initiatives

Who you are

• • You are a strategic thinker, but also can roll up your sleeves and execute
  • A solid operator
  • Would prefer a data / analytical / systems background
  • Proactively identifies areas of opportunity and proposes and implements solutions
  • Ambitious - you want to build something big
  • Fast learner, high output, hustle, impatient
  • Comfortable managing across and up
  • Super high quality bar - you will push us to build better teams than we thought possible
  • Incredibly reliable and organized​​
  • You are empathetic - you care about people’s problems and are motivated to resolve them quickly!

Reasons you may not like this role

• • We are ~65 people - a startup experiencing the requisite growing pains
  • We are a lean team

Health | Good health is critical to every other human (and animal!) experience. We believe health is a fundamental right and are dedicating our lives to maximizing health and developing better medicines for the worst diseases.

Seeking & Feedback Loops | Uniquely in biology, there is a predetermined truth of whether a specific drug will work or not — we just have to catch up with biology! We seek out this truth and do not shy away from inconvenient truths. This holds for personal development too: we are always searching for feedback loops and embody a perpetual growth mindset.

Transparency | We believe full transparency in thoughts, opinions, intentions, and actions (both good ones and mistakes) is a better way to build a business and work together.

Morality & Empathy | We are developing medicines that may one day be given to a living animal, medicines that if designed badly could hurt that animal instead of help. This is a huge responsibility and should be respected as such. Our work needs to adhere to the strictest moral code and always integrate empathy for the patient.

Kindness | Great business(wo)men do not need to be ruthless — you can execute excellently with kindness.

Dog gifs | We love them.