Head of People

Loyal is hiring a Head of People. We are looking for the right leader to build our people team, philosophy, and practices from the foundation up. You will work closely with our CEO and leadership team to build a consistent experience for all candidates and team members. You’ll join our Operations team, responsible for leading recruiting, onboarding, team member engagement, and HR compliance operations. You will be a key leader in maintaining the strong Loyal culture as we scale. You will initially report to our CEO and will work with team members across the company.

While you will be ultimately responsible for building and leading people operations, you will have ample opportunity to work with, learn from, and influence other functions in the company.

Your work may include:

• • Being someone for our team learns to trust and come to with their issues and learnings
  • Helping new managers scale their skills
  • Maintaining strong team engagement (e.g. surveys, continuous feedback loops, etc.)
  • Ensuring we are up to date with all required HR compliance. potentially by leading yourself or by managing a contractor
  • Helping design and run our recruiting, onboarding, people engagement, HR compliance, and off-boarding processes
  • Managing and building out our company benefits program

Your background:

• • Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent combination of education and experience
  • Excellent communication, presentation, and interpersonal skills
  • It would be great if you had previous experience building people-related processes and best practices from the ground up

How you think

• • You are flexible, open-minded, and have a positive mindset toward working in the fast-paced and rapidly evolving start-up environment.
  • You are empathetic and design user-centric processes
  • You are able to give and receive feedback constructively, you encourage your team during challenges, and celebrate wins whenever possible.
  • You meet or beat rapid deadlines and you work well under pressure.
  • You have exceptional integrity as well as excellent attention to detail and personal organization.
  • You are detail oriented, responsive, and enjoy high-responsibility environments.
  • You have a high degree of compassion, curiosity, and personal drive.

Logistics

• • Loyal is hybrid - approximately 50/50 remote and SF-based. We have a soft preference for a Bay Area-based hire
  • You’ll have full coverage health/dental/vision.
  • There’s also a monthly education allowance for books and self-improvement.
  • We’d love for you to start as soon as possible.

The Fundamentality of 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.

Truth 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.

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.

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.

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

Dog gifs | We love them.