Head of People

Position Summary

As Head of People you’ll help us discover, develop, motivate, and retain the team at Antora Energy. You will act as a champion for the company culture and will support the company executives and team leaders, allowing the company to develop and grow quickly while maintaining that culture. In this role you will be responsible for all human resources related activities. We want to make Antora Energy a great place to work, where we put team and mission first, connect with joy and laughter, and build with humility and openness. As head of the People Operations team, you  will partner with all areas of the company to help them build and support their organizations. This will involve, driving recruitment of the best talent, coaching on team leadership, helping to resolve employee relations issues and managing programs that help develop our team. This position is a key strategic role in the company helping to grow the business and allowing us to build a unique and strong people-oriented culture at Antora Energy.

What you will be responsible for:

• Develop and implement learning & development programs for employees across the company with a particular focus on employees that contribute to our core operations that serve customers.
• Develop analytics and feedback mechanisms to track the status and progress of our people operations processes, including equity, diversity, and inclusion, onboarding, training, satisfaction at work, and internal communications.
• Collaborate with the founders to run bottoms-up processes to craft our values, mission, and, critically, processes that reinforce them.
• Manage our talent acquisition function through multiple phases of doubling our number of employees.
• Own all the core HR needs & operations at the business: HR policies, benefits, compensation, career ladders, payroll, and performance reviews.
• Provide situational coaching and assistance in response to real-time HR needs for the business.
• Inspire and manage a small HR team and grow that team over time.
• Develop & implement training programs for managers and leaders.

We will support you by:

• Placing a high degree of trust in your ideas and execution.
• Bringing you up to speed in the domain of thermal energy storage.
• Providing a low-stress work environment.
• Making ourselves available for collaboration.
• Caring about you as a whole person.
• Supporting your personal and professional growth.

About you:

• You're excited to lead the people functions at a fast-moving start-up and growing a diverse network of talent.
• You're passionate about working at a company that’s mission is to stop climate change for the future of humanity.
• You're an empathetic, self-reflective leader, able to communicate and understand a diverse group of employees.
• You should feel comfortable owning the full set of people operations and talent acquisition responsibilities for our business.
• You think holistically about our company values and are able  to create versions of processes and materials that reflect those values.
• You enjoy sculpting our employer value proposition into outward facing content and events.
• You’ve previously scaled an early-stage startup organization with a small team and implemented company-wide changes to HR infrastructure.
• You have a  breadth of understanding of appropriate professional development practices that can achieve desired outcomes.
• You either have depth of knowledge of HR regulations or are able to work closely with external consultants on compliance.
• You have at least eight years of experience working in HR and have experience managing direct reports for at least three of those years.

We encourage you to apply even if your experiences and qualifications deviate somewhat from this list.

Location and hours: Antora Energy’s operations are currently highly distributed, especially so given the current situation with COVID-19. While our core team is concentrated in the San Francisco Bay Area, many team members are currently working from home depending on their job functions, and we partner with contractors and suppliers across the US. Our headquarters is located in Sunnyvale, CA. The Head of People needs to be able to come into the office as needed, not fully remote. Likely 1-2 days per week in the office would be useful for this role.