We’re Hiring a Humbly Confident HR and People Operations Specialist

About Us and Why We’re Hiring

We construct “You Want a Funds” the very best budgeting software program round. (However folks within the know name us YNAB, which is pronounced “why-nab”). For greater than a decade, folks have been shopping for YNAB after which telling their mates what a distinction it has made of their lives. Google us, or learn a few of our evaluations on the app store, and also you’ll see what we imply. We love constructing one thing that has an enormous optimistic affect on folks’s lives.

YNAB is rising, and so is our HR group (identified internally as Individuals Operations). Our construction presently has three Individuals Operations Specialists assigned to particular departments to function the primary HR factors of contact for these groups. They facilitate the hiring and onboarding processes, assist with HR questions and desires, and customarily obsess over their group’s total work expertise, engagement, and connectedness. 

Necessities (these are actual, precise necessities): 

• Minimal of 3-5 years {of professional} work expertise, with no less than 2 years of that being in Human Assets
• A part of that have consists of involvement with some facet of the hiring course of

Earlier than we go any additional, it’s worthwhile to know should you’ll even like working with us. Let’s speak about life at YNAB, after which we’ll go into extra element about what we’re in search of.

We’re worthwhile, bootstrapped, and rising. YNAB began in 2004 and we haven’t taken any outdoors funding—we’re in it for the lengthy haul. We’ve got one overarching requirement in terms of becoming a member of our group: our authentic Core Values Manifesto has to essentially click on with you. For those who’re nodding emphatically whereas studying it, you’ll in all probability actually prefer it right here, and we will’t wait to listen to from you!

We stay our Core Values every single day at YNAB, and we imply it once we say we’re an equal alternative employer. We imagine {that a} variety of backgrounds, skills, beliefs, and experiences are essential to our success, and we’re enthusiastic about making a welcoming, supportive, and collaborative atmosphere for all workers. All are inspired to use as we proceed to develop a sensible, hard-working, and various group who loves working collectively to construct one thing that issues.

We additionally work actually arduous, collectively, to make working at YNAB an incredible expertise, and we had been (humbly) proud to be named Fortune’s #1 Best Small Company to Work For for the final two years. We’ve got a group filled with really distinctive folks—the sort you’ll be excited to work with. We’d like to introduce you to some of them!

Who you’d be working with:

Probability is our Head of Operations. He will get to obsess about constructing an ideal firm and ensuring that folks actually love their work at YNAB. He cares deeply about YNAB and the individuals who make it a hit. He additionally oversees the corporate finances and financials. When he’s not championing the YNAB group expertise, you’ll discover him along with his household outdoors in Southern Utah, normally on a mountain bike, a tennis court docket, or out on the lake. 

Caitlin is our Individuals Ops Generalist. She presently runs level on most issues associated to HR— comp, advantages, and state legal guidelines to call a number of. She loves YNAB and the way it permits her to work and be a mother to a few ridiculously cute boys. Her glad place is on the seaside (ideally Maui) with a Eating regimen Coke in hand. When she’s caught within the snow in Utah, you’ll find her studying a e book, watching actuality TV, and planning her subsequent trip. 

Amber, Emma, and Charlene are our three present Individuals Operations Specialists, who every act as the primary level of HR for the groups they serve. They do all the pieces from coordinating hiring and onboarding processes, to answering advantages questions and maintaining our YNAB intranet updated. Outdoors of labor, Amber enjoys exploring the mountains of the Pacific Northwest, Emma is within the thick of new-home initiatives, and Charlene might be on an 11-mile run as you learn this.

Lauren is our Accounting and Payroll Specialist. Because of this she handles all monetary reporting, annual budgets, and payroll. One in every of her favourite elements of working right here is getting to assist You Want A Funds…finances. YNAB additionally lets her be a working mother and spend loads of time together with her household! She likes to attempt new eating places, particularly when exploring new cities on trip. However most days, you’ll find her cooking at residence and listening to audio books.

Emily is our present Operations Assistant. She is leaving YNAB in April 2022, so there’ll truly be two new Operations Assistants once you come on board! Emily will discuss your ear off about how a lot she loves the YNAB group, her job, after which the group once more. She handles journey, items, numerous packaging and transport, swag, and serving to out the place wanted. She works with the remainder of the Ops Staff to tug off the annual YNAB Retreats. She additionally likes to run, hike, and spend time with household.

After which after all you’ll cross paths with–properly–in all probability everybody else at YNAB. Individuals like Buffy and Sebastian (a few our builders), Cindy or Alan (each designers), Angela (our Head of Buyer Assist), or Reema (our Advertising Operations Lead). 

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How You’ll Work at YNAB

Now that you just’ve met a few of your potential future teammates, let’s discuss extra about YNAB as an organization. Right here’s how we function:

Dwell (Nearly) Wherever You Need

We’ve all the time been a completely distant group, and have folks everywhere in the world. For this specific place, nevertheless, we’re in search of somebody based mostly in the US, as a result of elevated complexity of using group members throughout the U.S. Wherever within the U.S. is truthful sport although. Simply be sure you have a dependable web connection.

No Outrageous Hours

We would like everybody to have a full life outdoors of YNAB, and we seldom work greater than 40 hours per week. There have been a number of events the place issues acquired busy and other people needed to put some further time in. However then they took some further time without work, so all of it balances out. We work arduous and good however we’re on this for the lengthy haul.

Take Trip (Significantly)

We would like you to take trip. The truth is, we have now a minimal trip coverage of three weeks per yr. 5 weeks feels about proper (plus two further weeks for our company-wide December break). It’s essential to get loads of downtime and get out and do one thing. We’ll stay up for seeing footage of your adventures in our #office_wall Slack channel!

The YNAB Retreat

When the pandemic isn’t maintaining us from touring, we get the groups collectively annually to atone for spreadsheets and powerpoints in a Greatest Western convention room. Simply kidding. Up to now, we’ve executed Costa Rica, a gigantic cabin within the mountains, a seaside home within the Outer Banks, a ranch in Montana, and most just lately, Laguna Beach. We work collectively, play collectively, and reinforce the bonds we’ve made as a group and firm. Yearly, we depart refreshed, motivated, and excited for the yr forward collectively.

Up Your Sport

We’re severe about serving to you enhance your craft. We finances for it (hey-o!). Suppose conferences, on-line programs and subscriptions, devoted time away from work to be taught one thing new…it’s actually as much as you and your supervisor. However we like to see our folks rising.  

Advantages

For full-time W2 workers within the U.S., we provide unbelievable well being, dental, and imaginative and prescient insurance coverage, the place we cowl 100% of the premium for you and your loved ones. No have to test your imaginative and prescient, you learn that proper—100%. Though should you did have to test your imaginative and prescient, NBD, we’ve acquired you coated!

We even have a Conventional and Roth 401(ok) possibility. YNAB matches your contributions as much as six %, and matches vest instantly. (Are you a private finance junkie like our founder Jesse? He arrange YNAB’s 401k to have the bottom price construction attainable, the place all plan prices are paid by YNAB, not your retirement nest egg. The funding funds obtainable are unbelievable, passively-managed, extremely low-cost index funds. You’re not a PF junkie? Belief us, it’s superior.) 

Aggressive Compensation

Sometimes, the beginning wage vary for this place is $60,000-$73,000 USD yearly. We think about raises yearly, and have a bi-annual profit-share bonus, which you’re in on from day one. YNAB wins, you win—that type of factor.

Different Tidbits

• When you begin, we DEMAND (in a pleasant, ALL CAPS IS YELLING method) that you just fill out your “Bucket Listing” spreadsheet with 50 objects. (That’s more durable than it sounds!) 
• The bucket record actually helps in deciding what we must always provide you with to your birthday and the vacations.
• We’re all adults. There’s no have to punch a clock, or ask for permission to take off early one afternoon to go see the physician. We take a look at what you accomplish, not how lengthy you’re in entrance of a pc.
• We would like you firing on all cylinders so we’ll set you up with a shiny new laptop and substitute it each three years.
• Did we point out that YNAB makes an enormous, optimistic distinction in folks’s lives? Chances are you’ll not assume that issues a lot, however then a number of months down the highway you’ll notice it’s made your job actually, actually pleasurable. Don’t underestimate this one!

If this seems like your ideally suited atmosphere, learn on as a result of now we need to speak about you, and the way you’ll play a giant half in altering folks’s lives.

Now, again to you, our new Individuals Operations Specialist…

What Success Seems Like: 

Our Operations group (what most individuals name HR) obsesses over making YNAB an distinctive place to work, and also you’ll play an important half in making that occur every single day, particularly to your group (or groups!). As a Individuals Operations Specialist serving your groups, you retain a eager eye on the YNAB work expertise, all the time in search of alternatives to make that have slightly higher. Which may seem like dialing in an onboarding course of so issues run extra easily. Or sending out a team-wide communication in a enjoyable and interesting method. Or serving to a group member determine a difficult insurance coverage declare problem. No matter it’s, it’s executed in a spirit of service with a real want to assist your fellow teammates. 

You’re our ideally suited candidate if: 

• You perceive that HR is far more than worker contracts, advantages, and compliance. It’s about constructing an ideal office.
• You will have no less than 3-5 years {of professional} expertise, with no less than 2 years of that being in HR.
• You will have a common understanding of HR: medical insurance, HR legal guidelines, 401k, payroll, state employment legal guidelines, and so forth.
• You will have expertise utilizing Paylocity or an analogous HR system.
• You’re process-minded and may make order of chaotic particulars. You possibly can observe a course of like clockwork, innovate when one thing may very well be executed higher, or create a brand new course of from scratch.
• You’re proficient with know-how, snug studying new issues, and accomplish that rapidly.
• You possibly can’t assist however discover that issues may very well be executed higher/quicker utilizing this or that methodology/software. And then you definitely take the initiative to really make it higher.
• You’re a folks particular person and naturally construct real relationships with these round you. 
• You like once you get to make somebody’s day higher. 
• You’re a wonderful communicator each verbally and in writing. 
• You handle your time exceptionally properly and are snug working remotely. 
• You’re extremely organized, versatile, and collaborative. 
• You by no means met a deadline you didn’t love. 
• You’re self-motivated and pushed by nature.
• You keep laser-focused on the large image, with out dropping sight of each. final. element. 
• You’re wildly productive and unbiased, however a team-player at coronary heart. 

Some belongings you’ll be doing at YNAB:

• You’ll be liable for shepherding the hiring course of to your group from starting to finish. Consider this as a Venture Supervisor for hiring. You gained’t do all of the work, however you’ll be sure that it will get executed, and executed within the YNAB method. This includes numerous coordination with everybody concerned and also you’ll be the one folks look to for steerage alongside the way in which. 
• You’ll do a lot of the preliminary screening of candidates for open jobs. And also you’ll regularly display screen candidates once we don’t have an open position and keep involved with those who we’d like to speak to down the highway. Once we’re not in an energetic spherical of hiring, you’ll proactively recruit and construct relationships with passive candidates.
• When a brand new group member joins YNAB, you’ll be sure that their onboarding expertise is as easy as butter. A part of that’s strolling the brand new rent by our insurance policies, advantages and company-wide information your self. And a part of that’s making certain that their group (builders, designers, and so forth.) has a course of in place that will get the brand new group member in control as successfully as attainable. (At first, you’ll in all probability assist create that course of.)
• As the primary HR level of contact to your groups, you’ll be there to help folks with all their questions and desires round advantages, insurance policies, payroll, the record goes on. 
• In the future you may be answering questions on altering direct deposit data, updating addresses, or finishing a verification of employment. One other day you may be answering a tricky query about medical insurance, researching a state legislation (we have now workers in 35 states!), or working with a supervisor to determine a tough scenario with a group member. Every single day is a bit completely different and also you thrive in that atmosphere. 
• You’ll handle the method when a group member leaves, and coach managers on learn how to navigate that. 
• Whenever you aren’t busy coordinating hiring, you’ll help the Operations group with initiatives like serving to preserve an organization intranet, refining and documenting our processes, and making a seamless onboarding expertise, to call a number of. 
• And excellent news! You’ll in all probability assist plan and execute our annual retreat! Whether or not digital or in-person, there are roughly a million particulars to get proper, and also you’ll assist make it really feel flawless for everybody there. 

Methods to Apply

• Apply beneath by 11:59PM PST on Sunday, February 13, 2022. Agency. It’s an actual deadline. The type you like.
• Connect a PDF of your cowl letter. In your cowl letter:
  • Introduce your self and clarify why this place is of curiosity to you, and why you’d be an ideal match. Please restrict this part of the quilt letter to at least one web page. 
  • On a separate web page of your cowl letter, reply the next questions (with every response being no a couple of paragraph in size): 
    • What standards do you search for when trying to find your subsequent firm or place?
    • What are your favourite and least favourite elements of your present (or most up-to-date) job?
    • Inform us a couple of time you created a brand new course of that made one in all your obligations extra environment friendly.
    • Inform us about an HR coverage or change that you just had been concerned in implementing at your organization, what your position was, and the way you went about it.
    • What’s crucial factor you’d search for when hiring somebody for this position?

• Connect a PDF resume.
• Although we all know it’s customary in some areas, we choose that you just don’t share a headshot in your utility supplies. 
• For those who’d prefer to disclose the necessity for an lodging in reference to the hiring course of, e-mail us at [email protected] Point out within the topic line that you just’re making use of for the Individuals Operations Specialist place. (Please notice that we will solely reply to messages associated to lodging.) 

We’re excited to listen to from you!

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