About Middesk
Our goal is to make it easier for businesses to work together. Since 2018, we have been a leading disruptor in the business identity market. While consumer identity technology has seen significant modernization and digitization over the past decade, business identity and verification largely continues to be a manual process, specifically in the context of onboarding businesses to receive access to financial products and services. Our best-in-class business identity platform provides access to complete, up-to-date information that financial services institutions and fintechs need to make educated decisions about their customers and facilitate rapid onboarding and transacting. Our vision is that every company can instantly gain access to all the data, products, and services they need to establish and grow their business with ease. Middesk came out of Y Combinator, is backed by Sequoia Capital and Accel Partners, and was recently named to Forbes Fintech 50 List and cited as an industry leader in business verification by digital identity strategy firm, Liminal.
Role Summary
As the first VP People based in San Francisco or New York City, you'll work directly with the co-founders to build out the People function and scale the company from 100 to 400+ employees. The leadership team sees culture as a cornerstone of success, and you'll set the vision on how to shape and operationalize it. You'll serve as a strategic partner to the executive team while building your own high-performing People & Talent organization. This is an incredible opportunity to build a world-class culture and people function from the ground up at a high-growth company.
You will:
Evaluate, revise, and operationalize our values and support a culture of high-performing employees
Partner with the executive team to develop and execute a comprehensive People strategy to support the business needs of and scale the organization (including building your own team)
Build out programs such as Comp/Leveling, Performance Management, and values.
Oversee and build out the People & Recruiting, Workplace, and IT functions.
Serve as a trusted advisor to the executive leadership team as the company prepares for scale
You are:
A strategic business partner with an informed POV who collaborates and influences across all levels to drive results
An Effective communicator across both written and verbal channels
Data driven, you use company and market data to influence business strategy and drive decisions
A trusted thought partner to the leadership team
Someone who drives accountability through personal ownership and team empowerment
You have experience in:
Building and scaling an organization at the early stages of growth 100 → 400 + (Bonus points for experience in regulated industries e.g. insurance, banking, transportation, healthcare)
Building and Executing strategy for people programs & processes (performance management; values; comp philosophy)
Designing programs to promote strong team culture and engagement
Building, developing, and leading high performing People & Talent teams
