[Hiring] Senior Director, Talent Management @Tides Network

Role Description

The Senior Director, Talent Management is a senior leader responsible for shaping and operationalizing the organization’s people strategy, driving labor and employee relations, and leading talent processes including performance, talent acquisition, and organizational development. This role ensures that Tides Network is structured to enable operational requirements, led by capable leaders, and staffed with high-performing talent aligned to advance both short and long-term business and impact strategies.

This leader serves as a strategic partner to functional leaders, translating business objectives into workforce strategy and building systems that foster growth, agility, and sustained performance while ensuring values aligned consistency and compliance. This role will also lead the development of the Talent Center of Excellence (COE), serving Tides Center’s 100+ partners and 800+ staff.

The Senior Director leads a dedicated team of four direct reports and three indirect reports across Talent Acquisition, Organizational Development, JEDI, Employee Relations, and Labor Relations professionals.

The Senior Director, Talent Management works in close partnership with the Director, Total Rewards & People Operations and the Senior Manager, Internal Communications, to ensure cohesive employee-facing functions, messaging, and programming and with the Vice President, Strategy & Impact to ensure alignment between workforce strategy and Tides’ strategic and operating plans.

As a leader, the Senior Director, Talent Management is responsible for modeling and demonstrating Tides’ core competencies of leading self, leading people, and leading results.

Qualifications

• Deep commitment to Tides’ mission of shifting and strengthening power for communities facing systemic barriers and demonstrated dedication to advancing justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI).
• Proven strategic leadership experience aligning People strategies with organizational goals, including the ability to influence enterprise-level priorities.
• Strong business and financial acumen with a track record of connecting talent strategies to organizational, operational, and fiscal outcomes.
• Experience driving transformational change, establishing KPIs, measuring outcomes, and implementing scalable People systems and strategies.
• Demonstrated success leading core HR domains: talent acquisition, talent development, employee relations, and labor relations.
• Experience leading collective bargaining agreement negotiations, impact bargaining, and formal grievance processes.
• Ability to partner with senior leaders to evaluate and resolve complex employee matters, fostering trust and strong cross-functional relationships.
• Commitment to engaging, developing, and retaining a diverse team through a culture of accountability, feedback, and recognition.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize and present complex concepts and recommendations for executive audiences.
• Exceptional interpersonal, diplomatic, and conflict resolution skills with the ability to manage difficult conversations while maintaining professionalism and strong relationships.
• Strong customer-service orientation and a servant leadership approach to supporting internal and external stakeholders.
• Highly detail-oriented with rigorous project management skills to build, operationalize, and improve systems, policies, and processes.
• Ability to thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced environment with shifting priorities, demonstrating adaptability and resilience.
• Skilled collaborator and influencer capable of engaging at all levels of the organization to drive People-centric outcomes.
• A strategic mindset and the ability to develop scalable solutions to support organizational goals.

Requirements

• 8 years of direct applicable business and HR experience and relevant bachelor’s degree; or 10 years of relevant experience. 4 years of experience must be in a supervisory capacity.
• 6+ years’ partnering with executives is preferred.
• Proven track record of building, leading, and innovating the People function to deliver exceptional results.
• Experience leading and engaging teams in a remote-first environment.
• Demonstrated track record of building and cultivating culture and measuring outcomes through a justice, equity, diversity and inclusion lens.
• Leadership experience within the People function of an organization undergoing transformational change, establishing core KPIs and effectively measuring performance across key goals and outcomes.

Benefits

• Equal Employment Opportunity: We look forward to reviewing applications from all qualified job seekers. We strongly encourage applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the LGBTQIA+ communities.
• No applicant will be discriminated against because of their race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions.
• Pursuant to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, we encourage and will consider qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
• Where required by state law, we utilize E-Verify as a part of our employment authorization process.

Applicants with Disabilities

Reasonable accommodation will be made so that all who are interested may participate in our interview process. If you are in need of an accommodation, please advise in writing at the time you apply.