Director of People Operations
Job Summary
Job Description
Sonar is seeking a Director of People Operations to lead HR operations globally, focusing on scaling Talent Acquisition and HR Operations. This role involves driving strategy, ensuring operational excellence, and optimizing HR services with an emphasis on business insights and talent experiences. The director will be responsible for promoting collaboration, championing team priorities, and building strong internal partnerships. They will also provide data-driven analysis to support leadership decisions and ensure strong financial and operational governance, including compliance with global employment regulations. The ideal candidate will have a player/coach mentality, a track record of building high-performing teams, and excellent people leadership and problem-solving skills.
Must have:
- 10+ years experience as Director in HR
- Proven experience in scaling organizations
- Global and distributed team leadership
- Experience in global HR operations strategy
- Player/coach mentality
- Building high-performing teams
- Influential relationships with senior leaders
- Data-driven storytelling
- Global HR programs understanding
- Excellent people leadership
- Excellent problem-solving
Good to have:
- Organizational agility
- Collaborative across multiple partners
Perks:
- 100% coverage of employee premiums (medical, dental, EAP)
- Vision benefit (annual exam, hardware benefits)
- 28 days annual leave
- Employer matching pension scheme (up to 5%)
- Gymflex discounts
- Discretionary Company Growth Bonus
- Public transport reimbursement
- Annual global kick-off event
2 skills required
Job Details
Who is Sonar?
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed to and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.
We are deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym – it's a mindset that defines daily operations.
Why You Should Apply:
At Sonar, we’re a group of brilliant, motivated, and driven professionals working hard to help supercharge developers to build better, faster. Sonar helps to continuously improve code quality and code security while reducing developer toil. This means that developers can focus on doing more of what they love and less of what they don’t. Our solutions don’t just solve symptoms of problems – we help fix issues at the source – for all code, whether it's developer-written, AI-generated, or from third parties.
We have a dynamic culture with employees worldwide and hub offices in the USA, Switzerland, the UK, Singapore, and Germany. Team members should be able to come to work every day, work on a product they are proud of, love what they do, and feel energized by their peers. With our roots deep in the open source community, we’re all about the mission: supercharge developers to build better, faster.
The Impact You Will Have:
The Director of People Operations will be key to Sonar's success. Reporting to the CPO (Chief People Officer), the Director of People Operations will be responsible for driving strategy and scaling the operations and services that drive the efficiency and effectiveness of Sonar's Talent Acquisition and HR Operations functions. You will serve as a critical point of integration, strategic influence and collaboration with multiple cross-functional partners to deliver world-class talent strategies and operational experiences at global scale and expertise.
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.
We Value Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:
At Sonar, we believe that our diversity is our strength. We are a global company that values and respects different backgrounds, perspectives, and cultures.
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive work environment where everyone feels valued and empowered to contribute their best. We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer and welcome all qualified applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
All offers of employment at Sonar are contingent upon the precise results of a comprehensive background check and reference verification conducted before the start date.
Applications that are submitted through agencies or third party recruiters will not be considered.
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