Director of People Ops
Company: Cambium Carbon
Location: Washington
Posted on: October 4, 2024
Job Description:
Director of People Ops / Full-Time / Baltimore, MR,
WashingtonExciting Opportunity: Join Our Team as Director of People
OpsCambium Carbon, a circular economy innovator, tackles key
environmental challenges in supply chains. Utilizing our Traece
technology, we salvage fallen lumber and transform it into Carbon
Smart Wood, a carbon negative building material. Our partnerships
with cities enable us to salvage fallen trees from landfills,
repurpose them, and reinvest in local tree planting efforts. This
approach not only supports environmental sustainability but also
stimulates job creation and strengthens local economies,
underscoring our commitment to combating climate change.At Cambium,
we say that complex problems require holistic solutions. This role
will be at the heart of enabling our team to do exceptional work.
We're not interested in jumping one level up in terms of execution
and organization. We're interested in jumping several levels. If
you're excited by joining a low-ego, high-performing team committed
to seeking truth and solving real problems that tangibly move the
needle to address Climate Change, then this could be the place for
you.About UsCambium Carbon is at a pivotal growth stage. With $10M
in funding over the past 3 years, we are on the cusp of defining a
new market for truly sustainable materials. The reality is that it
is hard to disrupt one of the oldest active industries (lumber) and
bring it into the 21st century. We do not have time to waste, and
we need someone to come in and level up our team-enabling a 5th
generation impact in all we do.What You'll DoThis role will work
closely with the department leaders to enhance accountability,
efficiency, and prioritization. You will develop performance
management processes to ensure employees at all levels continuously
understand their own performance and career growth opportunities
within Cambium. As the first People Ops hire, there will also be a
prioritization process of what needs attention now vs later.Develop
& Implement the Cambium Operating System Framework (50%)
- Create simple, easy-to-use systems to track team and individual
goals, milestones, and projects over time.
- Ability to update and assess the progress or success of those
goals.
- Easily utilize this data for team retrospectives and individual
performance reviews.
- Have candid conversations with the team to ensure
accountability, alignment, and effectiveness.
- Develop a real-time performance management process that ensures
top-down, peer-to-peer and bottoms-up feedback is incorporated and
continuously reviewed.Distill core objectives and support
operationalization across verticals (30%)
- Work with Executive team to outline 12 month company plan to
execute core goals.
- Outline 6-month and quarterly targets for VP/Vertical leads to
own and solve for.
- Frameworks for judging "Good VS Great" outcomes to get
there.
- Identify cross-functional requirements, including ways to
anticipate coordination between budget(s).
- Steering strategic business initiatives from genesis to
fruition.
- Pinpointing and addressing core issues within business
processes and creating solutions to fix them "once and for
all."Level up the Cambium Team (20%)
- Once the team wide system is set up, work with various
departments to develop team-specific accountability
tools/systems.
- Ensure accountability across verticals and training our team to
focus on the most important things while ignoring "noise."
- Enable the reporting and accountability across verticals.About
You: Required
- You are a phenomenal communicator-you sift through noise, ask
pointed questions and are not afraid to press and hold people
accountable.
- You are unbiased in your pursuit of truth and excellence.
- You can digest large amounts of information. Our work covers
many arenas.
- You know what excellent operations look and feel like (the hard
and soft side of them).
- You are comfortable working behind the scenes and not
necessarily owning the direct completion of projects.
- You see accountability in black and white. Either people are
hitting their metrics or they aren't, and you aren't afraid to call
them out.
- You understand people, how they communicate, how to produce
their best work, and how to enable teams to work effectively
together.Preferred Qualifications
- You have worked at growth- and scale-stage (Series A+)
startups-understanding the balance between process and freedom, the
need to move fast & prioritize, and the importance of letting
certain fires burn.
- You have experience with hard tech companies.
- You have experience working with Executive teams & departments
to align objectives and enable effective communication.The
DetailsThis role will report to: CEOWhen: We're looking to fill
this role immediatelyWhere: Baltimore, Maryland/Washington, DC area
preferred, but open to remote positionsSalary Range: $80-120k or
commensurate with experienceEquity options packageUnlimited
PTORetirement plan and 401k matchingRegular team eventsWork with an
incredibly smart, diverse, climate mission-driven teamAn
opportunity to play a core role in defining our fast-growing
companyDiversity, Equity and InclusivenessCambium Carbon is
committed to building an inclusive organization that reflects the
diverse communities our team works to serve. We believe that
diversity in all its forms (gender, race, ethnicity, age, sexual
orientation, religion, veteran's status, disability and more) is
essential to imagining and actively building a more just and
sustainable future for all.
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