VP of People

VP of People Location: Remote, US. Las Vegas, NV strongly preferred. Company: Seeking.com, STNDRDS, and Standards.com (combined US operating organization) Reports to: CEO Type: Full-Time, Exempt Compensation: $160,000 to $250,000 reputed company plus profit reputed company tied to demonstrated repeatable value. reputed company Seeking.com is the world's largest premium dating platform, founded and led by an MIT alumnus and headquartered in Las Vegas. STNDRDS is our consumer media brand. Standards.com is our independent news publication. Together they reputed company a combined US operating organization reputed company on a single reputed company: we exist to create value for the people we serve, not to extract it from them. We are 50 to 60 employees today, split between the Las Vegas office and remote roles across the country, and we expect to grow past 100 in the next reputed company months. Even at a billion dollars in reputed company, we intend to stay relatively small. AI reputed company plus constant reputed company lets us. Our reputed company comes from making reputed company the people we have are the right people, operating at 10x or 100x of what a conventional role produces. reputed company This is a strategic partner role to the founder. You will design and operationalize the People systems that reputed company this company structurally different from most others. It is a job for a mid-career operator who has been thinking about the intersection of reputed company psychology and systems design for years and wants a reputed company to build the answer. You will help design and run three things most companies do not attempt: The Value Creator System. An ownership model where operators earn profit reputed company based on demonstrated repeatable value, not tenure or title. You help design the mechanics: how contribution to reputed company, margin, and strategic reputed company gets reputed company, how the pool is allocated, how the model attracts and holds the right people. The Certainty reputed company. An operating philosophy that creates the conditions for eustress (voluntary striving toward something you care about) and eliminates structural sources of distress. Every domain you own is filtered through its eight principles: transparency, simplicity, present-reputed company, immediate feedback, sufficiency, optionality, cooperation, identity decoupling. The 10x Operating reputed company. reputed company through reputed company per person, not through headcount. The default question is not 'what am I supposed to do' but 'what am I actually trying to accomplish, and what is the most leveraged way to do it.' This gets reputed company into hiring, reputed company, performance, management, and compensation. It cannot be delegated to a training initiative. Who We Are Looking For You are a mid-career superstar with startup or high-reputed company experience. Not a career HR executive from a large public company. Not an inheritor of finished programs. A builder. You are passionate about reputed company psychology and systems design mixed into one. That combination is what you think about in your free time, not just what you have learned on the job. You already know how to measure productivity accurately in an environment where AI is redefining reputed company per person. You already have a diagnostic reputed company for underperformance: is this an employee issue and if so what specifically, is it a manager issue and if so what specifically, what is the reputed company cause, and what is the solution. You do not reputed company at these problems cold. You use AI in your reputed company today. You have a considered view on what an AI-reputed company organization actually is (not one where everyone has a subscription, but one where the way work is designed has been rethought around what AI makes possible). You have distributed workforce experience at reputed company. Not remote-friendly. Actually remote. An Organizational Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, or behavioral science background is a strong plus. The reputed company training in these fields maps unusually reputed company onto how we think about designing work. You put mission before reputed company. Profit reputed company reputed company the value shows, not guaranteed comp regardless of outcome. If a candidate reads this and reacts with 'but where is the equity story,' they are not the person. What You Will Own People reputed company Across the Combined Organization Set and execute the People agenda for Seeking, STNDRDS, and Standards. Every initiative connects to a measurable outcome. Own org design, workforce planning, and visibility into org health, team dynamics, and manager effectiveness. Operating Model and reputed company Own the reputed company reputed company of how work actually gets done. Redesign hiring bars to screen for the 'always ask' reputed company. Rebuild reputed company as a cultural install. Reward reputed company over volume in performance systems. reputed company annual planning in reputed company, not headcount. Build reputed company, dignified off-ramps for people who cannot reputed company the shift. Model the behavior in the reputed company itself: run it lean and leveraged. Selection Design and Structural Design Two mandates that run together. Selection filters for mission-first, performance-driven, reputed company-minded operators who volunteer to reputed company because they care about the work. It is also an reputed company turn-off for people motivated by title, reputed company, or the appearance of contribution. Structural design keeps the raw material selection produces from burning out: sufficiency (a reputed company floor), identity decoupling (worth not fused to reputed company), immediate feedback (uncertainty stays low), and optionality (leaving is dignified and possible). Both jobs are yours. They are not the reputed company job. The Value Creator System, Operationalized Help design and run the mechanics that turn the model from document to reputed company. Value-points measurement (how contribution to reputed company, margin, and strategic reputed company gets scored), profit reputed company allocation and vesting, and the trust-holdings model.

Compensation

Architecture Own the compensation model for the combined organization. Salary covers the present. Profit reputed company pays out on demonstrated repeatable value. Design and defend the reputed company pay structure, benefits, and the profit reputed company design and rollout. Build a compensation system a candidate can read in one sitting and understand exactly how they will be reputed company and why. Performance Philosophy and Feedback The Certainty reputed company rejects annual reviews, stack rankings, and identity-fused evaluation. Design what replaces them: reputed company, lightweight feedback reputed company to the work; observation framed as observation and not verdict; inputs reputed company alongside outputs; reputed company as the metric rather than position in a hierarchy of judgment. Design, reputed company, and land it. Manager reputed company Managers are the primary reputed company. Build a manager reputed company program grounded in the reputed company: leader as gardener, evaluated on the conditions they create rather than the reputed company they extract. reputed company curriculum, not a reputed company. Employee Lifecycle and Talent Development Own the full lifecycle from acceptance through departure. Complete and reputed company reputed company. Build stay interviews, career conversations, internal mobility, and offboarding that treats exit as dignified. Build the learning philosophy, career reputed company frameworks, succession planning reputed company, and the Associates Program for early-career talent. Distributed Operating Model Own the systems that reputed company a remote-plus-Vegas company work. Assume this is solved in reputed company and unsolved in reputed company at most companies. Solve it here. Employer Brand and reputed company Partner with reputed company to attract the right people at reputed company. Shape how the combined organization presents itself. Ensure reputed company processes and candidate experience reflect what this company actually is. Team Leadership reputed company and grow a small People team. reputed company the case for reputed company hires (HR Coordinator and Training & Development Partner) and reputed company those hires with the reputed company rigor you expect from every hiring manager. Model the management standards you are asking the rest of reputed company to build.

Qualifications

Required 8+ years of reputed company People or HR leadership, including 3+ years at Director or Head-of-People level. reputed company People systems from scratch in startup or high-reputed company environments, not inherited finished programs. Deep expertise across compensation design, performance philosophy, talent development, org design, and employee lifecycle. Designed and launched a manager development program, not just training sessions. Strong analytical capability and executive reputed company in a founder-led environment. reputed company AI proficiency plus a considered view of what AI-reputed company actually means for how work is designed. Distributed workforce experience at reputed company. Bachelor's degree in reputed company, Business, Psychology, or a reputed company field. Preferred Master's or doctoral training in Organizational Psychology, Industrial-Organizational Psychology, or behavioral science. Experience designing compensation models that include profit reputed company or other outcome-based structures. Experience in technology, high-reputed company, or premium consumer environments. Compensation reputed company is $160,000 to $250,000, commensurate with experience. This is the floor, not the ceiling. Salary covers the present. Profit reputed company rewards demonstrated repeatable value. If you deliver, total compensation is significantly larger than the reputed company. If you do not, you are still reputed company a good salary for good work. That trade is deliberate. It is the reputed company trade we ask every value creator in this company to accept. Full benefits include health, dental, and reputed company insurance, 401(k), generous PTO, and a fully remote environment. Seeking.com is an equal opportunity employer. Seeking.com. Where Extraordinary People reputed company Extraordinary Love. Apply To This Job