About Us

NS1 optimizes delivery of the world’s most critical internet and enterprise applications. Only NS1’s platform is built on a modern API-first architecture that acts on real-time data and grows more powerful in complex environments, transforming DNS, DHCP, and IP Address Management (IPAM) into an intelligent, efficient, and automated system. NS1’s technology drives dramatic gains in IT efficiency and application performance, reliability, and security for the largest global enterprises, including Salesforce, LinkedIn, Dropbox, Nielsen, Pitney Bowes, Squarespace, Pandora and The Guardian. We solve incredibly challenging problems on behalf of our customers, in the most mission critical parts of their stack.

The Role

NS1 is changing the way the world’s applications are being built and delivered. Critical to our success is our ability to hire, grow, and retain talent and balancing scale with culture and values. We have ambitious goals, every year and especially in 2020. With plans to double our revenue, in the US and internationally, we need a committed, experienced leader who is high energy and high empathy, ready to build and scale the organization responsible for our most important asset – our people.

NS1 is looking for a People Leader who can balance our singular focus on the mission of optimizing the delivery of the world’s most critical internet and enterprise applications with the criticality of maintaining our culture and values.

Primary responsibilities of the role include:

• Building and scaling a global People operation

• Business partner and employee relations
• Employee experience and engagement
• Diversity, inclusion, and belonging
• Compensation and benefits
• Global HR Operations, compliance, and HRIS
• Culture

• Designing, implementing, and managing the NS1 employee experience

• Onboarding
• Training
• Performance management
• Culture initiatives, including diversity, inclusion, and belonging programming

• Overseeing Talent Acquisition
• Talent strategy creation and execution
• Candidate experience and offer management
• Recruiting and sourcing strategies, worldwide

Your Skills:

• Built, scaled, and led a People function from the ground up – or had a front-row seat to it at in a less senior role. The ability to demonstrate an understanding of the range of priorities and how to approach them in a growth-phase organization.
• Worked in a company of a similar size (about 100-250 employees), with headquarters in the US and significant presence internationally and have experience leading a team where colleagues can be separate in both time zones and physical space.
• 8+ years relevant HR experience including talent acquisition, employee relations, and organizational development, with prior experience managing a human resources team, ideally with a digital workforce in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment and with international responsibilities.
• Proven ability to develop and maintain effective relationships with senior business leaders, managers, and peers.
• High energy, high empathy, and are clearly a cultural champion – both as a role model for our values and by leading cross-functional initiatives to strengthen our culture as we grow. This includes a demonstrated commitment to and track record of leading including Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging programming.

Nice to have:

• A consummate coach who finds nothing more fulfilling than contributing to a group’s success and helping leaders develop.
• A fervent collaborator, an empathetic listener, and a deliberate, data-driven decision-maker.
• An excellent decision-maker with an unparalleled, morally-sound judgement.
• Deeply responsible and accountable, with a precise attention to detail while maintaining context of the big picture.

Working @ NS1

We’re a fast-growing, well-funded startup based in the heart of New York City’s Financial District with offices and team members around the world. Working at NS1, you’ll come to understand our team is unique, both in and out of the workplace. We have PhDs, musicians, artists, and athletes working side by side, dedicated to delivering first class products. We’re hardworking, but we're also a compassionate group. We understand that outside of NS1 is a world that places demands on our time. Our leadership team is dedicated to open and honest communication and we continuously strive to foster a culture of transparency, flexibility, and creativity.

We offer:

• competitive compensation (salary and stock options)
• medical, dental, and vision
• commuter benefits
• 401k
• flexible hours and time off
• choice of workstation

NS1 is an equal opportunity employer.