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About the Role

We are seeking a strategic Head of People to build and lead our People function, focusing on performance, talent development, and organizational effectiveness to support business growth and strengthen our culture.

Responsibilities

• Develop and own the strategic people roadmap.
• Design scalable, role-specific onboarding programs.
• Design performance processes that foster accountability, continuous feedback, and professional growth.
• Create meaningful career development programs and personally coach employees and leaders.
• Build the firm’s coaching capability, equipping managers to develop their own people.
• Design structured, merit-based compensation frameworks.
• Shape a high-performing, values-driven culture and design the organization to sustain it.
• Evaluate, implement, and optimize HR systems and People Operations processes.
• Champion an AI-forward approach and build automations.
• Partner with management to close productivity gaps.
• Strengthen communication and address organizational challenges.

Requirements

• At least five years of people leadership experience in a high-growth, entrepreneurial environment.
• Proven ability to build scalable programs and lead through change.
• Proven ability to develop, implement, and continuously refine people strategies.
• Comes to the table with ideas and launches initiatives proactively.
• Strong leadership, executive presence, and excellent judgment.
• Ability to influence department leaders.
• Communicates effectively in both written and verbal settings.
• Demonstrated success in coaching leaders, navigating difficult conversations, and fostering trust.
• Operates at a true senior-executive level - low-ego and easy to work with.
• Strong understanding of New York and federal employment practices.
• Deeply versed in current best practices, SHRM standards, and leading literature on teams, culture, and organizational health.
• Demonstrated ability to leverage, evaluate, and implement HRIS, employee engagement, and People Operations technology.
• Thinks like a project manager and a coach.
• Designs and implements systems that track performance.
• Coaches people and their managers to improve.
• Uses AI to make the team more efficient.
• Gives leadership a clear, honest picture of productivity.
• Treats getting the best out of people as the central measure of success.

Skills

• Strategic thinking
• Performance management
• Coaching
• Talent development
• Organizational development
• Compensation strategy
• Culture shaping
• HR systems implementation
• Automation
• Project management
• Communication
• Leadership
• Executive presence
• Judgment
• Influence
• HR and compliance knowledge
• Technological literacy
• AI utilization

Location

• National

Work Type

• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior-level
• Five years of people leadership experience

Benefits

• Eligibility for discretionary bonuses based on individual and firm performance.

About the Company

• A sophisticated, nationally recognized plaintiffs’ law firm that has been around for decades.
• Grown to a team of two hundred people fighting for the rights of our clients.
• Powerhouse team of attorneys combines deep expertise with innovative litigation strategies.
• Relentless in pursuing excellence, taking on high-impact litigation that holds corporations accountable.
• Ambitious about our people as we are about our cases.
• Firm genuinely embraces AI and automation.
• Tech-forward environment.