Director of People Operations

What You Will Do Daily:

• Take charge of HR operations globally and promote collaboration across the globe.
• Ensure excellence with prioritization, communication and execution of HR Operations programs and services.
• Continually define, refine and optimize service offerings with an emphasis on operational business insights, talent experiences and impact.
• Role model excellence by teaching, inspiring and operating as a hands-on leader, championing your team priorities and goals.
• Grow internal partnerships through proactive and credible influence and execution of strategies.
• Enable highly confident leadership decision-making through thoughtful, detailed and consultative analysis with clear and balanced business logic.
• Ensure strong financial and operational governance (Ex. Policies, process, procedures). 
• Strong global knowledge of compliance, regulation and laws related to employment.

The Experience You Will Need:

• A minimum of 10+ years at a Director level in an HR role.  
• Proven experience in a growth organization with scaling teams and operations
• Organizational agility including strong interest in working in a global environment and leading a distributed team globally.
• Demonstrated experience and expertise in implementing scaled global talent and HR Operations strategies.
• Ability to engage and develop others with a player/coach mentality; a builder of high-performing teams.
• Track record of building credible and influential relationships with senior leaders.
• Proven ability to collaborate across multiple partners effectively including to solve unexpected or unanticipated challenges.
• A credible and influential, data-driven storyteller
• Excellent understanding of global talent and human resources programs, tools, services and standards of practice.
• Excellent people leadership and influencing skills.
• Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.

Why You Will Love It Here:

• Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!). 
• Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains. 
• We have a flexible work policy that includes 3 days in-office and 2 days work-from-home each week for those located near our office locations; some locations such as Dubai, India, Japan and Australia operate fully remotely.
• We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
• As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
• We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.

Benefits of Working With Sonar:

• 100% coverage of employee premiums through BUPA for medical, dental, and Employee Assistance Programs
• Vision benefit through Sun Life which Includes an annual vision exam and vision hardware benefits 
• We encourage usage of our robust time-off allocations with 28 days of annual leave for our employees based out of our London hub, plus additional days based on seniority and circumstances.
• Employer matching contribution pension scheme for up to 5%. 
• Gymflex: savings of up to 40% on memberships at over 4k gyms, leisure centres, yoga and pilates studios, health clubs and boot camps across the UK.
• Generous discretionary Company Growth Bonus, paid annually.  
• Commuting:Public transport reimbursement of 60% for annual subscription
• Global workforce with employees in 20+ countries representing 35+ unique nationalities.
• We have an annual kick-off somewhere in the world where we meet to build relationships and goals for the company.