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Senior Manager / Director, People Partner, Product & Technology (HR)
Ancestry
San Francisco, CA, United States
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Job Description
Ancestry is currently seeking a Senior Manager / Director, People to participate in the development of the organization’s plans, programs and strategies of the business, particularly from the perspectives of organizational development, performance, and leadership development. This position requires versatility and demonstrated agility to pivot between being a strategic business partner and executing outcomes in service of our objectives in Product and Technology (P+T) and across the Ancestry enterprise.
This is an integral part of the People and Places team and will play an active role with the overall goal of retaining, engaging and developing the best talent for the organization. The role will focus on change management, as the Company scales significantly over the next 12 – 24 months. This individual must possess the ability to quickly grasp business objectives and strategies of multiple teams in multiple sites and leverage human resources team members and capabilities to support the achievement of those objectives.
What You Will Do:
• Work with the P+T People Partners to help drive strategic / creative / disruptive solutions that enables our leaders and employees to do fun and interesting work
• Act as effective, trusted and credible advisor on people, organizational and business initiatives driving outcomes that support business and employee success.
• Support key clients and functions with the aim of improving organizational and talent capability through cultural change.
• Counsel and coach managers for their respective organizations, including advising talent acquisition, development and management strategies.
• Partner with People and Places centers of excellence driving transparency and line of sight of people and business based priorities.
• Implement policies and processes that are flexible, consistent and balanced between the efficiencies of standardization and focus on meeting unique business or geographic needs and reflective of Ancestry’s values.
• Provide coaching to managers and employees in a high growth environment to support leadership development, business decision-making, and problem solving
• Continuously look for opportunities to streamline, collect and utilize HR data to improve delivery and understanding of core HR processes and influence business outcomes using data, trends and benchmarks.
• In partnership with Talent Development, implement performance management and leadership development initiatives with the goal of creating value that is demonstrated in reducing regretted attrition, building and sustaining high performing teams, and enabling a highly engaged environment.
• In partnership with the business leaders, participate in the development of yearly objectives and development of action plans to achieve objectives including defining inspection metrics.
• Influence and coach the client groups in continually raising the hiring and developing top talent bar as we scale our business.
• Use the business strategy and outcomes to create purpose driven talent based solutions that aid the organization in attracting and developing our current and future employees.
• In partnership with the People function and the business leaders, craft and execute a change plan that supports the transformation and scaling of our business.
Qualifications
Who You Are:
• 7-10+ years proven strategic HR experience (preferably in software development environment)
• Bachelors degree, advanced degree a plus.
• Strong business acumen, consulting, critical thinking and influencing skills.
• Organizationally savvy in leading and sustaining change, and using tools and metrics to measure success.
Additional Information
Working for Ancestry
We’re a cutting-edge tech company with a very human mission—to help every person discover, preserve, and share the story of what led to them. Combining the rich information in family trees and historical records with the genetic details revealed in DNA, we create unique experiences that give people a new understanding of their lives, because connecting all the pieces of our family story can give us the deepest sense of who we are. For more information on what we do and why you would want to work at Ancestry, visit our careers
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