Director of People and Talent, Tulip Interfaces
+ equity
2-5 days a week in office (Somerville, MA)
Global operations management platform
Open for applications
Global operations management platform
201-500 employees
Open for applications
+ equity
2-5 days a week in office (Somerville, MA)
201-500 employees
Company mission
To democratize technology and empower those closest to operations to solve problems.
Role
Who you are
- You have an entrepreneurial spirit (you're self-driven and you don’t need direction), an affinity for the fast-paced environment of a start-up, a sense of humor, and get-it-done personality
- You can easily switch between thinking creatively and analytically across multiple projects
- You have deep empathy, low ego, high self awareness, and the ability to build strong and productive relationships with people of all backgrounds
- You are mission-first and understand that your success is measured by Tulip and your team’s success
- You are an experienced people leader, and can grow and manage a high performing team
- 4+ years of experience working as a People Leader, with 8+ years of experience across varying roles in People Operations. Talent Strategy or HRBP experience is a plus
- Can hire, coach, motivate, and develop team members in people operations and recruiting
- Excellent written and verbal communicator and collaborator
- Strong technical background and excel at analytical thinking
- Ability to set and drive people vision, execute people strategies, and guide best practices
What the job involves
- The Director of People will be ultimately accountable for all activities related to People (Organizational Design, Talent Acquisition, Employee Engagement/Retention, Employee Relations, Development, Compensation, Benefits, and more)
- This role will be a primary advisor and partner to the executive team and senior leadership team on people related strategy and issues, establishing and building People Operations and Talent Acquisition teams to scale with the needs of the business
- A core responsibility of this role will be the strategy around team design and scaling out the full People Operations org and functions
- Direct leadership of two functions (People and Recruiting) of ~8-10 Tulipians globally and growing
- Effectively mentor and grow team members of varying levels, from senior ICs to other people leads to mid career
- Scale the organizational design of the people organization to meet the needs of the business
- Develop talent strategies to support business deliverables and objectives
- Forecast and outline future hiring needs by identifying critical gaps
- Support and develop medium to long term organizational strategy
- Maintain, improve, and drive adoption for job frameworks/architectural structure
- Drive clarity into nuanced performance expectations, career pathways, etc
- Drive recruiting activities
- Build strong Talent Acquisition capabilities (attraction, interviewing, positive candidate experience, decision-making influence, etc.)
- Own critical recruiting metrics and develop strategies to make progress
- Evolve and mature the recruiting process to handle high volume, high quality recruiting
- Collaborate with the People team on the feedback loop of people metrics (attrition, performance) into recruiting strategy
- Establish long term performance and engagement strategy, including performance culture, process, systems, training and infrastructure, with a focus on the intersection of merit/compensation adjustment cycles
- Work in close partnership with leadership and finance to ensure cost-viability and timelines
- Build and operationalize talent systems and a people focused technology strategy, in partnership with IT
- People and Talent stack is well defined and aligned with core KPIs and business objectives
- Ongoing continuous improvement on technical roadmap, integration and automation within the various technologies to achieve people outcomes
- Build a culture around data
- Continue to invest in the infrastructure for achieving automated reporting and ongoing actionable insights that impact the business
- Establish the operating rhythms to partner effectively with the business and all key stakeholders
- Build a culture that is a learning organization, not an organization that does learning
- Own the Learning & Development vision, mission, strategy, business plan, goals and resulting execution
- Collaborate with Tulip leaders globally to achieve desired business results and to target and implement program improvements
- Set the long-term vision and short/medium term strategic DEI objectives for Tulip in partnership with the executive leadership team
- Oversee the development and implementation of programs that promote DEI within Tulip
- Focus on deep integration
- Own DEI data reporting and accountability to our goals
- Drive total rewards strategy to address having compensation and benefits that enables the attraction of key talent
- Establish competitive and sustainable compensation structure using market data paired with internal benchmarks to ensure equitable and fair approach to hiring, promotions, internal mobility, and more
- Oversee and scale day-to-day HR operations
- From establishing scalable infrastructure to executing directly on activities such as onboarding and more (including HRIS, compliance, employee communications)
- Heavy emphasis on process building and automation, utilization of technology and systems to build a core infrastructure platform and minimize manual work
- Own employee lifecycle experience and processes, from onboarding, assimilating into the team and culture; and lastly, employee exits
Our take
Tulip’s frontline operations platform is a connected data and process management tool that lets manufacturers create their own visual and interactive apps that connect with machines, tools, sensors, people and the systems used in a production or logistics process in a physical location.
Tulip gives frontline engineers the ability to address their own shop floor needs, guiding workflows and adapting the apps as things change or improvements are made. Customers only pay for the stations they need, driving better cost efficiencies and the ability to start small and scale up. Its no-code platform and powerful integrations allow connection to new and legacy machinery as well as leveraging the Internet of Things. This has attracted partnerships with the likes of Microsoft and AWS.
Tulip wants to be a next generation leader in frontline operations that currently represents a $150B market opportunity. The company's next steps include further expansion into small and medium enterprise businesses in Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia as well as significantly increasing its head count to support growth as the low/no code platform marketplace is tipped to hit $45 billion by 2025.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
May 2024
$100m
LATE VC
Aug 2021
$100m
SERIES C
Total funding: $270.9m
Company benefits
- Have a direct impact on product and culture
- Flexible work and unlimited vacation policy, virtual company events and happy hours
- Commuter benefits, a work-from-home stipend, fitness subsidies
- Healthcare, Dental, Vision, Short-term Disability, Long-term Disability, Health Reimbursement Account (HRA)
- Parental Leave, 401K & Life Insurance
- Parents@Tulip, Hey Lady, Allies@Tulip and more
Company values
- Behind every product is a person - At Tulip, we’re using technology to empower the people who build our world. We created the first Frontline Operations Platform to empower those closest to their operations to bring digital transformation to their facilities
- Always be growing - We strive to foster an environment that celebrates growth mindset and where everyone can teach and learn from each other. We believe building a great team means supporting our employees in their professional and personal growth
- Get it done - Tulipians are highly motivated, passionate, and hard-working. To build extraordinary products as a team, we must deliver extraordinary results as individuals. This requires the courage to iterate openly, make mistakes, overcome challenges and drive towards solutions
Company HQ
Assembly Square, Somerville, MA
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Leadership
Natan Linder
(CEO)They served in the IDF as a System Engineer for 3 years before working as a Software Engineer for 4 years. They worked at Samsung, Formlabs, MIT Media Lab, and RightHand Robotics before co-founding Tulip in September 2014.
Rony Kubat
(CTO)Having taken a Ph.D. in Computer Science at MIT, they started working at MIT Media Lab in 2012. They have served as CTO of Tulip since 2014, alongside being a Media Lab Research Affiliate.
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