What are the responsibilities and job description for the People Practices Partner, Fintech position at a16z?
People Practices Partner, Fintech
Founded in 2009 by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz, Andreessen Horowitz (known as "a16z") is a venture capital firm in Silicon Valley, California, that backs bold entrepreneurs building the future through technology. We are stage agnostic: We invest in seed to late-stage technology companies, across the consumer, enterprise, bio/healthcare, crypto, and fintech spaces. a16z has $28.2B in assets under management across multiple funds, including the $2.9B Bio funds, the $3.1B Crypto funds, and the Cultural Leadership Fund.
We've established a team that is defined by respect for the entrepreneur and the entrepreneurial company building process. We've invested in companies like Affirm, Coinbase, Current, Deel, Greenlight, Plaid, Robinhood, Stripe, and Titan. Our team is at the forefront of new technology, helping entrepreneurs and their companies impact and change the world.
The Role
As part of the People Practices organization you will be working directly with our portfolio, supporting General Partners' investments focused in the Fintech space. The People Practices team focuses on helping our portfolio companies build out the right HR infrastructure as a company grows, starting from an idea through to hyper growth. The successful candidate will work directly with CEO's and HR leaders within the portfolio in advising and partnering to identify, design and implement the right programs at the right time to attract, onboard and retain employees. As a member of the People Practices team you will help identify trends and solutions to address a very competitive market as it relates to people, and share insights on how to address growing pains across the portfolio. In addition to understanding the challenges across the portfolio you will be responsible for highlighting themes to the Operating Partner and General Partners.
While partnering with the portfolio you will work closely with others on the People Practices and talent team to build content and drive monthly training managers and leaders. The People Practices organization is also responsible for understanding current market trends to all People related programs, ranging from compensation, benefits, employment law, compliance, culture and organizational design. In addition this person should have passion around technology and find excitement around knowing the up and coming technology in the HR/People space.
Minimum Qualifications
- At least 10 years of HR experience within a high-growth company or business unit, preferably in the technology industry
- Strong working knowledge of all HR functional areas including recruiting, training and development, employee relations, performance management, compensation, and benefits
- Experience building out centralized programs and delivering training across the organizations
- Knowledge of HR compliance and regulations and industry standard methodologies
- Detail and action-oriented individual with a passion for implementation. Comfortable working as an individual contributor in a fast-paced, dynamic, high-energy environment
- Previous experience working with executives
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Strong project management skills
- Must have the ability to influence and collaborate
- Global HR knowledge is a must have
a16z culture
- We do only first class business and only in a first class way
- We take a long view of relationships, because we are in the relationship business
- We believe in the future and bet the firm that way
- We are all different, we recognize that, and we win
- We celebrate the good times
- We do it for the team
- We play to win
At a16z we are always looking to hire the absolute best talent and recognize that diversity in our experiences and backgrounds is what makes us stronger. We hire candidates of any race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, marital or family status, disability, Veteran status, and any other status. These differences are what enables us to work towards the future we envision for ourselves, our portfolio companies, and the World.
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