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About the Role
Method is hiring its first Director of People to build the people strategy for its next stage of growth. This role is responsible for building and managing all aspects of the HR function, including performance management, compensation and benefits, employee development, compliance, and culture. The ideal candidate has a builder mindset and extensive experience in scaling HR teams and programs in dynamic environments.
Responsibilities
- Design and lead all facets of the People function at Method
- Partner with leadership on org design and role clarity as teams grow
- Coach managers and build leadership development grounded in Method's values
- Serve as the trusted partner to founders and managers on employee relations and sensitive people matters, handled with discretion and in compliance
- Refine and run Method's performance management cycle
- Build a leveling framework and career ladders that work across functions and reflect how a lean, AI-native team actually operates
- Design Method’s total rewards strategy
- Own compensation philosophy, benchmarking, and comp and merit review cycles
- Lead benefits and leave policy design, bringing market context to every decision
- Build dashboards, conduct analysis, and run reports using HRIS/AI to guide programs
- Oversee the onboarding process from offer signature onward, including global mobility and immigration
- Own HRIS optimization, benefits administration, and onboarding/offboarding
- Reinforce Method's values and culture as we grow
Requirements
- 8+ years of progressive HR experience
- At least 5 years of experience as the primary HR point-of-contact within a high-growth company, preferably in the tech industry
- Led or been an early member of the people function at a venture-backed startup, ideally through the Series B to C or D stretch
- Came up through people operations, moved into HR business partnership, or vice-versa
- Real employee relations experience and the judgment that comes with it
- Comfortable in a spreadsheet; can build a compensation or leveling analysis
- Designed performance, compensation, and leveling programs from scratch and adapted them through headcount growth
- Build trust quickly and coach leaders with confidence
- Bring conviction, and adjust quickly when something is not working
- Prefer building to administering, and right-size process to the stage of the company
- Use AI tools to move faster and think better
Skills
- Performance management
- Compensation and benefits
- Employee development
- Compliance
- Culture building
- HRIS optimization
- Benefits administration
- Onboarding/offboarding
- Employee relations
- Organizational design
- Leadership coaching
- Total rewards strategy
- Compensation philosophy
- Benchmarking
- Comp and merit review cycles
- Leave policy design
- HR analytics
- Global mobility
- Immigration
- AI tools
Location
- Austin
- San Francisco
- New York City
- Washington D.C.
Work Type
- Hybrid
Experience Level
- 8+ years of progressive HR experience
- 5+ years as primary HR point-of-contact in a high-growth tech company
- Experience as the first people hire at a company that scaled past 150 (Extra Awesome)
- Background in fintech, B2B SaaS, or another high-growth technical environment (Extra Awesome)
Salary/Compensations
- $180,000 - $215,000
Benefits
- Equity package
- Medical, Dental, Vision; basic medical plans 100% covered
- Flexible PTO
- $30/day Lunch allowance when working from the office
- 12 weeks parental leave
- Commuter benefits; employer-sponsored
- Phone/internet stipend
- WFH stipend
- Student loan repayment contribution
- Lifestyle Spending stipend
- Learning & Development stipend
- Hybrid-office stocked with snacks
- Quarterly team off-sites
About the Company
- Method has built the most modern way to connect to consumer financial accounts, combining real-time liability connectivity with instant payment execution.
- Method’s API is designed to make it easy for people to connect their financial accounts to the apps and services they want to use.
- Helped 45+ million users connect 350+ million liability accounts credential-less and processed over $2.5B in payments, helping users save millions in interest.
- One in every three credit cards in the United States is in the Method ecosystem.
- Leading financial institutions like SoFi, Bilt, Cleo, Sezzle, Figure & Aven rely on our APIs to build magical experiences for millions of consumers.
- A team of 50+ people spread across offices in Austin, SF, New York City, and Washington D.C.
- Continuing momentum working alongside investors and advisors from Andreessen Horowitz, Emergence Capital, Y Combinator, Avra, and Ardent.
Equal Opportunity
- Method provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need assistance with your application due to a disability, please contact us at talent@methodfi.com to request an accommodation.