Director of Talent Engagement
Overview
kCura is a global company with team members who are driven by our customers to build exceptional software for them to use every day. Our product, called Relativity, handles large volumes of data and helps corporations, law firms, and government agencies solve their own unique data problems.
The way we work together is centered on our core values of collaborating, communicating, pushing to exceed expectations (even our own), being humble, and having fun while we do it. We enjoy ourselves, give back, and work (and play) hard together. If this sounds like the place for you, check out the details of this position below.
As the Director of Talent Engagement, you will build a high performing, coordinated team across three verticals with a well-designed plan to implement processes, practices and projects pivotal to engaging, developing and retaining our top talent at kCura.
Responsibilities
Drive coordinated talent strategy
• Serve as cross-vertical leader to design and deliver a cohesive and coordinated approach to fulfill kCura’s strategic talent objectives.
• Partner with CPO to align talent strategy with business strategy and key imperatives.
• Ensure metrics and quality analytics are incorporated into all three functions and feed into HR’s people analytics.
• Foster strong relationships with business leaders to enable all talent engagement teams to provide customized solutions for their business and people needs.
• Lead the organization in the development and execution of all the processes (with supportive systems) related to talent planning, engagement and development, based on benchmarking and commitment to evolve best practices.
• Conduct assessment and design best practices for scaling into a global, diverse and increasingly remote workforce.
• Cultivate a culture of development and empowerment through appropriate programming, communication, education and activities both enterprise-wide and department-specific
Build High Performing Team
• Provide excellent coaching and development to the managers and team members in all three functions, with special attention to role modeling the Expectations of a People Leader.
• Exemplify giving and receiving feedback regarding leadership practices and functional areas of expertise.
• Provide leadership across HR where interdependencies exist and collaborate with other HR leadership to ensure problems are solved and collaboration is occurring.
Lead innovation and continuous improvement of talent processes
• Recognize and build upon the positive legacy of what’s worked in the past and encourage innovation and change in the areas that need to be improved or matured.
• Encourage benchmarking, research, information gathering from networks and employer branding events to define next set of opportunities and innovative solutions to kCura’s people needs.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
• Expertise and relevant experience in all aspects of talent management and development and organization-wide change initiatives.
• Proven leadership experience in building best-in-class and cutting edge practices in learning and development, leadership development, HR partners, change management and internal communications.
• A minimum of 10 years’ experience building these functions and leading teams.
• Advanced knowledge and use of data analytic and report writing tools for tracking success in these three areas.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and presentation skills
• Previous project lead/manager experience and ability to lead multiple projects simultaneously
Preferred Qualifications:
• Advanced degree in OD, HR, or related field
• Experience leading HR functions in Tech or rapid-growth companies
About Us
Our software has more than 130,000 active users in more than 40 countries from organizations including the U.S. Department of Justice and more than 190 of the Am Law 200. We have grown significantly over the last several years and continue striving to build software that helps solve our customers’ toughest e-discovery and unstructured data challenges.
If you’re ready to grow with us, we’d love to hear from you.