VP, People

Join the Swing Education Team as a VP People and make a difference in K-12 education. We are a remote team and prefer this role be California based. You will report to the CEO and support our rapid acceleration and growth. The ideal candidate is comfortable at a high level and in the weeds. This is an ever-changing role as we grow so you must thrive and enjoy rapid change and be highly adept at adapting. Bonus points if you have a passion for improving K-12 education. If you are ready to jump in and join us, let’s go!!!

Your Impact:

• Create, implement, and improve best-in-class employee engagement, performance management, career development, succession planning, retention, and recruiting and onboarding processes that have operational stability. We are building!

• Build trust as a thought leader and influencer of impactful HR practices that support business objectives

• Collaborate with functional leaders to identify future skill/talent needs

• Be a thought partner with our CEO/COO on how to take our mission, vision, and strategy and operationalize it

• Identify and implement solutions to organizational opportunities and challenges as we scale. Lots of opportunities to make an impact as we grow!

• Ensure we continue establishing an engaged and productive employee culture that is fully remote

• Proactively implement interventions with teams that may be struggling. Sometimes teams and leaders need a little help from us…

• Help build an employer brand and culture that attracts top talent and retains employees

• Ensure compliance with all Federal and State employment laws, especially California

What You’ll Bring:

• 10+ years of related experience, including leading a dynamic HR team in a fast-growing startup organization, bonus points for experience growing a team in the 100 to 500 employee stage

• Experience working in a high-tech rapidly scaling company; comfortable with chaos and lots of change. Did you count how many times we mentioned “change”?

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent combination of education and/or professional experience

• Proven ability to be strategic and in the weeds simultaneously; an ability to communicate and collaborate with leadership and employees

• Business mindset – a laser focus on business ROI and positive impact with everything HR. Identify and implement HR programs, initiatives, and interventions to accelerate the business and ensure that objectives are exceeded. Change management skills are critical. People Ops helps the business scale successfully.

• Experience establishing and maintaining a strong 100%-remote culture

• Proven success as a manager and builder of team/company culture

• Talent acquisition and employee retention mindset; an ability to help position Swing Education as a company known for a positive culture and a best place to work. We have our sights on winning a “Best Places to Work” award because we are!

• Sense of urgency and roll-up-your sleeves philosophy. Identify key areas that will have a significant positive impact – get it done quickly, accurately, and efficiently

• Coaching ability to help develop leaders throughout the company

• An ability to see around the corner. As we scale, we need to be constantly building the HR foundation to support our next tier of growth

• Represent and drive our D&I initiatives internally and externally; measure and track the effectiveness of our inclusion initiatives

• Knowledge of innovative and proven HR technologies

• A focus on employee and candidate experience in all HR systems, programs, and methodologies

• Experience in employment laws and regulations, especially California

• Our preference is for candidates who live within a 90-minute drive of San Francisco to enable occasional in-person get-togethers as an HR Team to discuss HR goals and challenges. We enjoy working remote but we also like in-person get-togethers to be able to see each other in 3D.

Who We Are:

On average, U.S. students are with substitute teachers for 5% of the typical school year. That means our students have substitute teachers for more than six months of their K-12 school career. The problem? We're suffering from a national shortage of substitute teachers.

Swing Education is focused on tackling the substitute teacher shortage. Our online platform makes it easy for great schools and quality subs to find each other. We help schools access more subs and offload tedious work associated with managing a pool of substitute teachers (recruiting, screening, payroll, etc.). Our network provides subs with a wider range of work opportunities to gain experience and build their professional network.

After more than 6 years in operation we are working with over 4000 schools in 7 states and have filled over 300k teacher absence days. We're a post-series B company with about 50 employees currently and our lead investors include GV (aka Google Ventures), Owl Ventures, and Social Capital. We also have a strong commitment to diversity and our employees are 60% people of color (30% underrepresented minorities) and over 50% female. Our board of directors is also 75% female and 75% people of color.

We’re a diverse and inclusive team. We find it easy to get up in the morning and work for teachers, schools, and students.

How to apply.

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