The Role

The People Tech Lead will be a passionate advisor and partner within the Glia business, focused on technical solutions that will drive efficiency and prepare the People Team for the scaleup and contribute to the more productive, agile, and profitable business.

You will be a strategic and data-driven partner for Glia’s People teams to implement and drive their people-based tech initiatives to achieve both business and HR strategies. This role will partner primarily with People, Talent, Compliance, IT, Finance and Legal teams and work closely together with the global People team.

Responsibilities 

• Lead new tools and processes implementations and suggest new ways to improve  People and Talent operations function by eliminating manual work and replacing it with automations, integrations and more systematic approach.  
• Build strong, trusted relationships with stakeholders to create and execute on organizational and people strategies.
• Continuously suggest ways to improve employee experience
• Work with People, Talent, Compliance, IT, Finance and Legal teams to build People policies and ensure compliance.
• Act as a partner to investigate and resolve complex issues. 
• Collaborate with the People Team to ensure company wide review cycles and other projects are executed with great data quality and documentation is executed with minimum effort and excellent accuracy. 
• Collaborate with the Talent teams to continually improve the data quality and efficiency of Glia’s hiring process.
• Standardize reporting on employee trends and deliver action plans to the Executive Team that align with the business goals. 
• Continuously build and improve people team processes, creating clear goals and monitoring success. 

Qualifications 

• 4-5 years of HR or people operations experience.
• 4+ years of experience working in high-growth SaaS organizations and are comfortable balancing strategic and tactical responsibilities that come with scaling such companies. 
• You have 2+ years supporting/advising Director and/or SVP level Leaders
• You have experience supporting a remote team. 
• You pride yourself on excellent verbal and written communication. 
• You have a proven track record of building strong relationships across the business; you are a trusted advisor and partner.
• You're driven by creating measurable goals and never stop improving processes. In other words, you are an enthusiastic leader with a strong drive to create a positive work environment. 
• At your core you are a strategic thinker, problem solver and builder. 

Role Competencies

• Communication: Communicates complex issues clearly and credibly with widely varied audiences. Ensures appropriate individuals are informed.
• Influence: Develops consensus and alignment on ideas and recommendations affecting own team or other teams. Facilitates discussions and gives consideration to a range of interests, opinions, possibilities and situational variables.
• Managing Programs and Projects: Initiates and/or manages major or complex projects. Engineers work processes. Gives direction to team members. Redirects the overall strategy, goal, or project as external and internal requirements change.
• Problem Solving: Anticipates problems. Creates innovative working methods to generate new ideas. Serves as a resource for problems affecting large scale projects or systems.
• Process Excellence: Assesses the effectiveness of systems and current processes; streamlines standards and processes and develops innovative approaches to program development and implementation.
• Authentic Listening: Establishes reputation as a credible and trustworthy source for employees to voice concerns, and share anything that might be negatively impacting their competence and commitment on current goals and tasks. Identifies and responds to underlying attitudes or behavior patterns such as cultural norms and personality differences. Reacts purposefully to frustrations of others. Resolves escalated conflicts among stakeholders through effective dialogue.
• Emotional Intelligence: Accepts constructive feedback and adapts leadership style/actions/behaviors. Creates a sense of well -being by taking an active interest in the opinions and ideas of others, and partnering in efforts to align. Plays to the different strengths and development levels within a team to maximize effectiveness. Helps others through emotional or tense situations, tactfully bringing disagreements into the open, engaging in healthy debate.