VP of People FOSSA San Francisco, CA Remote

Job Description

About FOSSA:

Developing software has become the most valuable capability in the world. Today, enterprises must excel at leveraging as much open source and 3rd party code as possible or fall behind.

FOSSA’s mission is to help businesses accelerate their use of open source, by providing companies with the tools to discover and drive standards around open source usage.

Today, using open source creates huge operational challenges at scale. Companies consume and deploy hundreds of thousands of open source components daily, each with licensing, security and quality implications that can impact production environments supporting billions of dollars of revenue and thousands of downstream partners. Over the past few years, every organization from 57% of the Global 2000 to the Biden administration have enforced standards around open source management — making this one of the most urgent problems in technology.

FOSSA is building the only platform specialized for open source management at scale. By identifying 3rd party code across thousands of development pipelines, reliably enforcing compliance / security policies within development workflows, and automating end to end reporting — global enterprises like Uber, Snap, and Confluent depend on FOSSA to build world class products that are compliant, secure and use high-quality 3rd-party code.

We are a rapidly growing series-B company with a truly distributed team. While our roots are in San Francisco, our growing team has members in several countries across many time zones. We’re always working to find the perfect balance of effective approaches to distributed work, while maintaining the direct personal connections that help us work better together and love our jobs.

About The Role

This is a critical role on the executive team of a fast-growing distributed company. You will be the leader of FOSSA’s People function and HR strategy as we grow past 100 in headcount — cultivating the systems, culture, talent, community and employer identity of FOSSA. On the executive team, you will serve as an advisor, strategic partner and coach to the CEO, peer executives and other leaders on the growth of their organizations as well as produce a primary input to planning, strategy and execution of the overall business.

FOSSA has an early-stage People function ready to grow, and is in an ideal position as a:
60-person team growing past 100 in 2022 across the world
Real business with a massive addressable market and healthy, repeatable revenue build at growth-stage scale metrics
Well-funded ($35M raised) with a pragmatic operating mindset, setting the company / staff up for success year over year
Seasoned leadership team that intuitively cares about staff and is both experienced-in and enthusiastic about a strategic partnership with People
Modern, forward-leaning culture with strong existing values across all levels around transparency, collaboration, employee development, personal / professional alignment, and low-ego leadership
Coachable, collaborative and empathetic leaders across the company
Strong existing pedigree of excellent talent across bay area and remote (vancouver, BA, etc) locations

About you:
Director/VP-level people leader; min. 10+ years in the people function, 5+ years in leadership role
Has run a strategic people function (i.e. ops, hr, etc…) supporting at minimum 60 people and an executive team
Has owned talent strategy and executed on a 20-40 person annual hiring plan
Exceptional / outlier EQ — will be the strongest aligner and bridge builder on the exec team
From a forward-leaning technology-centric background where employee engagement, relations, coaching, experience and talent acquisition / management were emphasized
Has small-company experience; owned / supported a staff of similar (<350 FTEs) size
First-team mindset; has managed through complex organizational change before and understands how to set the business and leadership team for success
Strong empathy for the employee lifecycle and experience

Bonus Points!
Held an executive role previously and managed an all-in budget and functional roadmap
Ran, orchestrated and materially contributed to executive searches in the past
Supported 100+ person organization with a scrappy (<10 person) team

FOSSA Comp Package Includes:
Competitive compensation + equity in a fast growing tech company
World class benefits including 100% company paid health insurance and unlimited PTO
Generous Maternal and Paternal Policy (3 months fully paid!)
Company events to ensure communication and collaboration (virtual and in-person)
Globally distributed team, however we do have a beautiful office in the financial district of SF!
Dog Friendly!