Chief People Officer

**About Platform.sh**

As a collective of 400+ individuals with diverse backgrounds, we work together to test, innovate, and challenge one another, finding new ways to reimagine digital experiences. We're here to help our customers thrive.

Bring your experience to our team, and help us build a better way.

**Position summary**

As a mission driven and inspirational Chief People Officer, you are reporting to the CEO and co-founder, taking the lead role in defining and building the end-to-end people capability at Platform.sh for a scaling globally remote workforce. This role is for a European based seasoned professional.

You operate as an executive coach for the founders and leadership team, with the deep abilities to fine-tune management skills and capabilities through analysis and inspirational leadership.

Combining your extensive experience in people operations and strategic leadership, you carry out strategic People responsibility for the entire company, translating the business strategy into a people strategy.

You have full accountability for and develop comprehensive approaches to all HR matters: employee relations, employer branding, talent acquisition, employee culture, benefits and compensation, organizational change and design, performance management, learning and development.

You communicate the company's values, ethics and mission internally and externally, and measure how this creates an environment in which engaged employees thrive in the context of an ultra-distributed setting.

You constantly measure employee experience to provide the most comprehensive offering of reward, benefits and work environment.

You lead a team of 9 with a range of differing expertise focused on transformation, new capabilities and value creation across talent acquisition, operations, mobility, compensation, communications and systems.

You extend the influence of the people function to every aspect of Platform.sh through challenging, aligning and evolving the organizational capabilities to achieve growth goals.

**What you bring**
- Proven HR lead experience with broad responsibilities of operating human resources on a company with 500+ employees with an emphasis on organizational design, learning and development, process automation, performance improvement and data/people analytics
- Proven track record in the tech industry with international teams
- Affinity with remote working practices and concepts and the emergent trends around employee empowerment, distributed organizations and multicultural teams
- Expert strategic and operational skills with the track record of taking concepts and creating high performance capabilities accurately tailored to unique and evolving scenarios for businesses, functions and individuals in remote working
- Extensive and clearly evident emotional intelligence with expertise in synthesizing common understandings, driving collaboration, removing ambiguity and raising direct challenges
- Fundamentally influential and able to impact and empower all parts of an organization with the refined communication skills to drive for higher levels of achievement and exceptional behaviors at all levels
- High conviction style, trusting, hard working and detail oriented with an ability and appetite to lead and grow organizations and capabilities
- Selfless and valuing collective success and continuous improvement in daily activities

**Personal Profile**
- Strategic - A strategic leader, pragmatic, insightful and accountable
- Autonomous - Works independently, making executive decisions without too much support
- Inspiring - A fantastic recruiter, engaging and a trusted source of information for all
- People - Excellent interpersonal skills both internally and externally
- Innovative - Creative, continuously seeking areas for improvement
- Leader - Ability to project oneself, must have credibility appropriate to the environment
- Bilingual - French and English (third language a plus)

**This is a remote job.**

We're a worldwide, distributed team looking for the best talent. Our remote model has been in practice and thriving since 2014. To us, remote work means flexibility and having truly diverse, global teams.

To maximize team collaboration this role is for a European based seasoned professional, preferably based in Paris, France.

**Company perks and benefits**
- Leadership that cares
- A global team rich with culture and diversity
- An open work environment where your voice is encouraged. We can always find ways to do better and look forward to hearing your ideas.
- Wellness stipend of $300 a year
- Professional development budget of $800
- Tandem - a pool of linguists from around the world willing to help each other work on learning new languages
- $3,000 office budget at hire (computer is mandatory but spend the rest on things that help you work, from headphones to a wifi extender) and a welcome kit of branded swag
- A yearly global gift exchange - get paired up with someone 3,000 miles or