Head of People (Portugal remote)

Sherpany is the Swiss market leader for meeting management software. Since its founding in 2011, it has pursued the goal of creating a world in which every meeting counts. Over 300 European companies and 12,000 decision-makers are already using Sherpany with the aim of making their business relevant meetings more productive and thereby increasing corporate success. According to a jury of international investors, Sherpany is one of the best scale-ups in Switzerland with the potential to become a unicorn. Sherpany employs over 150 people in six locations in Europe and remotely in 19 countries around the world.

Tasks

What you will be doing:

• Lead a team of 6 Sherpanees to successfully achieve the defined objectives.
• Define and implement processes and tools to ensure high productivity within your area of responsibility.
• Ensuring substantial talent acquisition operations that fuels growth strategy and anticipates the companies development.
• Responsibility for people operations (contracting, payroll, onboardings, offboardings).
• Responsibility for employee lifecycle incl. employee retention and employee/leadership development.
• Drive change cross-functionally to achieve company goals and visions.
• Actively share and maintain the company culture in a remote-first context.
• Provide the organisation with the right workplace solution to ensure high productivity and satisfaction.
• Define and own the people strategy to support the company s vision

Requirements

What we will love about you:

• Proven experience in an HR-leadership position
• Knowhow about the strategic and operational people aspects of an internationally distributed organisation
• The ability to build and nurture relationships across departments
• The ability to align diverse stakeholder and drive change across the organisation
• The confidence to act as an advisor on all leadership levels and influence outcomes across the organisation
• Fluent in English (spoken, written)

Your mindset:

• you are a self-starter with a high level of attention to detail
• you have a get-it-done attitude and always aim for the best possible solutions
• you appreciate working in a team with highly motivated and driven people
• comfortable with regular context switches to unblock your team and communicate with internal and external stakeholders
• able to stake out short, mid and long-term tasks based on a (multi-) yearly roadmap and assign appropriate priorities

Benefits

How you can imagine us:

You are part of a company with people working from everywhere in the world, in which you can take lot of responsibility and your ideas are always welcome

• In order to maintain your work-life balance we offer flexible working hours, home office and/or remote-working
• Your personal and professional development is important to us which is why we offer financial support for further education, trainings etc.
• We work with modern Apple products; every employee receives an own MacBook
• Last but not least: Our corporate culture means a lot to us, which is why we organize regular team events and cultivate a value-centric cooperation

Our recruiting process:

1. Interview with our Talent Acquisition Specialist
2. Interview with the VP of Operations and Team Lead People
3. Final interview to meet the team, key stakeholders and solve a job related challenge
4. Offer
5. Join us and become a Sherpanee!