Description

• Vision and Strategy: Partner with the executive leadership team and strategic stakeholders to help establish and execute on the long-term vision for key people operation functions, drive future organizational design and change management initiatives to maintain a high-performing, motivated, and impactful team. Foster an environment which stimulates open communication, collaboration, imagination and engenders a team spirit in solving problems and achieving growth expectations 
• Values and Culture: Promote our core values while making us an employer of choice in the gaming industry. Act as a steward to ensure that all decisions, programs, and processes are aligned with those values and goals. Help us to scale the organization quickly (organically and through M&A) while maintaining our performance-oriented culture 
• Performance Management and Recognition:  Enhance our company-wide performance management program to help us identify high and low performers, promote and reward excellence, and drive continuous, transparent feedback across all disciplines 
• Professional Development:  Build scalable professional development programs that aid in growing our team’s capabilities and drive employee retention 
• Management and Leadership Training: Drive scalable solutions around making our leaders better managers; provide coaching and feedback to our existing leadership team and develop programs that prepare high-potential employees 
• Talent Management: Attract, develop, motivate and retain top talent throughout the employee lifecycle 
• Data and Compliance: Improve the collection and use of people-related data to aid in better decision making; develop key metrics to measure employee happiness, performance, engagement, and retention; ensure compliance with all federal, state, and local requirements across each of our offices

• 10+ years direct Human Resources experience, with 5+ years leading HR teams in growth-oriented and multi-national companies 
• The proven ability to influence and inspire change with executive and operating teams through active communication of the people strategy 
• Proven success in delivering high-impact people operations programs around performance management, culture, employee engagement, and retention 
• A track record of being a business partner to executives across a variety of functional areas and a demonstrated capability to interface and maintain effective relationships with all departments and staff 
• Expertise in coaching across the full spectrum of seniority 
• The ability to think strategically but also focus on tactical and operational issues
• Comfortable with data, KPIs, and OKRs that measure the effectiveness of programs and strategies 
• Ability to build and communicate business rationale and financial impacts of programs 

Work Environment:

• Work Schedule: 40 hours per week, M-F. Due to the nature of this role, there may be an expectation to work late evenings and early mornings to meet employee/ company deliverables and requests.
• Travel Requirements: Travel to events, event locations, as needed.  International travel as needed.  May be required to work weekends due to events and load in/ load out schedules.
• Physical Requirements: This role involves standard office-based activities, including extended periods of sitting, standing, and working at a computer.
• Work Model: This role will be required to go into our Los Angeles office on a hybrid basis, at least 3 days per week.

Our Culture and Values

Here’s the good stuff about us…

• You’ll make an impact. We reach 490MM monthly unique users. We’re big time, but we’re not afraid to give you real opportunities to be epic and make a difference immediately.
• We’ve got a big presence, but a small team.
• We have fun. It’s all about games and games are fun. Anyone can offer a casual work environment, flexible hours, and benefits. We can offer that and a place where you can squad up with your coworkers in the arcade/game room.
• We’re passionate about what we do. IGN employees understand our users, because they are our users. We have a personal interest in providing the best possible product.

Why Join Us:

• Join a forward-thinking, distributed team in one of the most exciting sectors—gaming and entertainment.
• Work with innovative programmatic technologies and tools.
• Enjoy a collaborative and dynamic environment.