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Salary: USD 250,000 - 295,000 / annual
Substack is seeking a Head of People to build and scale the People function at a pivotal stage of growth. This is a strategic and hands-on role where you will own the strategy, systems, and programs that shape how Substack hires, develops, rewards, and supports its team.
Key responsibilities include:
- Partnering with leadership to develop and execute a people strategy aligned with Substack's mission, values, and business goals
- Leading and scaling the People function across recruiting, onboarding, compensation, benefits, employee experience, performance management, and talent development
- Owning compensation, benefits, and leveling frameworks, and running feedback, review, and promotion cycles
- Building and running training, learning and development, and leadership coaching programs
- Shaping employee experience, including office culture, people surveys, orientation, and onboarding
- Leading recruiting strategy to hire exceptional talent
- Advising leadership on organizational design, workforce planning, and succession planning
- Building and continuously improving people systems, policies, and programs
- Coaching managers and leaders on performance, team effectiveness, and organizational challenges
- Overseeing employee relations and ensuring consistent, thoughtful issue resolution
- Using people analytics and workforce insights to guide decisions
- Ensuring compliance with applicable employment laws and regulations
- Building, mentoring, and developing a high-performing People team
About Substack: Substack is building a new economic engine for culture, empowering independent writers, artists, videographers, podcasters, and creators to create, share, and make a living off their work through subscriptions. The company offers creators creative freedom, ownership, and direct audience connections.
Requirements:
- 8+ years of progressive experience in People or HR with multi-functional expertise across benefits, compensation, leveling, feedback/promotion/review cycles, training/L&D, leadership coaching, employee experience, and recruiting
- Startup or growth-stage experience (required)
- Track record of excellence and best practices from strong, well-regarded companies
- Self-starter who sets the pace and pushes the team
- Resourceful: comfortable being hands-on and delegating
- Demonstrated understanding, empathy, and familiarity with multiple company-building disciplines (engineering, product, business, etc.) is a plus
- Proven ability to influence and advise executive leadership with excellent communication and coaching skills
- Strong analytical skills and comfort using data to inform People decisions
- Nice to have: experience building a People team from scratch; knowledge of employment law and compliance across regions where the company hires
