Who’re we?
UpGuard’s mission is to guard the world’s knowledge. We obsessively hunt down elegant, strong methods to allow our clients to seek out, acknowledge, and remediate cyber danger. With UpGuard, organizations leverage our safety experience and software program to automate what was as soon as laborious, spreadsheet-driven processes–whether or not it is monitoring the assault floor of a whole lot of distributors or assessing the safety of their very own infrastructure. UpGuard is utilized by among the world’s largest, fastest-growing, and most modern corporations.
Our Individuals staff consists of the Expertise Acquisition and Individuals Partnering staff. At UpGuard, all of us should work in an setting the place we’re handled with dignity and respect. Our Individuals staff is dedicated to creating such an setting, the place everybody has the chance to be themselves and attain their full potential. Our Expertise Acquisition staff is dedicated to discovering people who embody our values and are passionate in regards to the work they do to assist UpGuard proceed to develop. Our Individuals Partnering staff gives construction for UpGuard, maximizing worker productiveness and defending the corporate from any points that will come up throughout the workforce. TMX tasks embrace folks administration, worker advantages and wellness, and growing competencies that improve particular person and organizational efficiency
The place does this position slot in?
UpGuard is a category-defining Cybersecurity firm that’s at a pivotal second in our progress journey. With a staff of practically 300 passionate staff members distributed throughout the globe and merchandise liked by 1000’s of shoppers, we’re poised for exponential progress. We’re looking for a visionary Chief Individuals Officer to be the architect of our folks technique as we scale from 300 staff members and past.
As our Chief Individuals Officer and a key member of the chief management staff, you may be the strategic driver behind constructing a world-class, future-focused, and scalable folks perform. You’ll not simply handle HR; you’ll construct the engine that powers our international progress. This position requires a pacesetter who has seen the hyper-growth journey earlier than, thinks from first rules, and is obsessed with leveraging trendy expertise, together with AI, to create an unparalleled staff member expertise.
What is going to you do?
Architect our scaling technique: Develop and execute the worldwide folks roadmap to assist the corporate’s progress from 300 staff members and past, guaranteeing our tradition, expertise, and organisational design evolve successfully.
Be a strategic associate to the COO & Exec staff: Act as a trusted advisor and coach to the chief staff on all people-related issues, from organisational design and management improvement to succession planning and M&A integration.
Champion a worldwide, remote-first tradition: Nurture and evolve our tradition, guaranteeing it stays a aggressive benefit as we scale. Implement applications and rituals that foster connection, inclusivity, and excessive efficiency throughout a globally distributed workforce.
Construct a future-forward Individuals perform: Reimagine and modernise our core folks processes. Pioneer using AI, automation and knowledge analytics to drive effectivity, predictability, and insights throughout all Individuals actions.
Oversee the complete Individuals & Expertise lifecycle: Present management throughout all aspects of the Individuals perform, together with Expertise Acquisition, HR Enterprise Partnering, Studying & Growth, Compensation & Advantages, and Individuals Operations.
Drive Organisational Effectiveness: Implement and refine programs for efficiency administration, profession pathways, and management enablement that empower our staff members to do their greatest work.
Guarantee International Compliance & Governance: Oversee our international employment insurance policies, guaranteeing compliance and mitigating danger throughout all jurisdictions the place we function.
What is going to you carry?
Confirmed hyper-growth expertise: You’ve got been a senior folks chief (e.g., CPO, VP of Individuals) and have efficiently scaled a expertise firm from an analogous stage to 500+ staff members.
International workforce experience: Deep, hands-on expertise constructing and managing a globally distributed, remote-first or hybrid workforce throughout key areas (e.g., APAC, North America, EMEA and India).
Complete HR mastery: You’re a grasp of your craft with a robust basis in core HR disciplines, together with compensation philosophy, advantages design, worker relations, and worldwide employment regulation.
Strategic M&A expertise: You’ve got demonstrably led the Individuals perform by way of at the very least one vital merger or acquisition, from due diligence by way of to post-close integration.
Govt presence & affect: Distinctive communication abilities and the emotional intelligence to function as a reputable, influential chief on the government and board stage.
Knowledge-driven & commercially minded: A business-first mindset, with the power to make use of knowledge to tell choices and join our folks technique on to enterprise outcomes.
A builder’s mentality: You thrive in a fast-paced setting and have a observe file of constructing groups, programs, and processes from the bottom up.
AI & automation imaginative and prescient: You possess a robust, forward-thinking perspective on how AI and automation will remodel the Individuals perform, and you’ve got sensible concepts or expertise implementing these applied sciences.
What provides you with an edge?
Australian Tech scene pedigree: You had been a part of the early journey at one in every of Australia’s iconic, high-growth tech corporations (e.g., Atlassian, Canva, Airwallex, and many others.) and have seen firsthand what a world-class scaling operation appears to be like like from the within.
Deep SaaS business expertise: You perceive the distinctive expertise panorama, metrics, and organisational challenges particular to B2B SaaS corporations.
Expertise in a player-coach capability: You might be comfy rolling up your sleeves and being hands-on whereas concurrently main and growing a high-performing staff.
What’s in it for you?
Inventory choices: Take part in our ESOP plan
Month-to-month Way of life subsidy: use this for monetary, bodily and psychological wellbeing (all areas)
WFH set-up allowance: to make sure you have the correct setting to work in, we are going to provide help to get set-up inside your first 3 months at UpGuard (all areas)
$1500 USD annual Studying & Growth allowance: to assist your profession improvement all staff members will be capable of expense improvement alternatives in opposition to this allowance (all areas)
Beneficiant Annual Go away/PTO allowances: time to recharge your batteries (all areas)
18 weeks paid Parental Go away: no matter parenting position (all areas)
Private Go away allowance: this contains sick & carer’s depart (all areas)
Totally distant working setting: while we’ve got bodily places of work in Sydney & Hobart, we don’t mandate obligatory attendance (all areas)
High spec {hardware}: all staff members will probably be supplied with top-spec laptops for his or her position (all areas)
Generative AI & Automation tooling: UpGuard gives business main generative AI and automation instruments to assist all staff members with their work (all areas)
