Director of Human Resources

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About Opcity:

Opcity helps real estate brokers, lenders and settlement service providers serve online customers. The number of home buyers/sellers who start their process online is growing much faster than the industry as a whole. Opcity makes the real estate experience better by instantly and seamlessly matching consumers to the best agent for them, and facilitates the buying and selling process by connecting and coordinating the vital services within the home buying/selling ecosystem. Through its proprietary matching algorithm and SMS/Mobile live-transfer distribution platform, Opcity is able to instantly connect the best agent with the highest probability of conversion to the right consumer at the right time. Opcity’s matching model is based on eighteen (18) years of agent historical performance, predictive analytics, and a learning model of iterative improvement. Opcity’s network of providers, technology platform, and toolkit allow Opcity to be the primary concierge for the consumer during the home buying/selling experience.

Reporting to the Head of People & Culture, the Director of Human Resources is both a strategic and hands-on role that provides comprehensive HR leadership to the organization. This role will provide strategic guidance and coaching to key executive business leaders to help build Opcity’s people and leadership capabilities and achieve our growth plans and business objectives. The Director will also lead a small team of HR Generalists and administrative staff in our mission to provide best in class HR programs.

Duties & Responsibilities:

 

Provide superior strategic, tactical, and operational HR solutions focused on achieving business objectives.

Build and nurture solid relationships with organization’s leaders by demonstrating an understanding of business strategies and challenges. Identify where human resources strategies can be leveraged.

Ensure alignment between individual, department and corporate practices.

Review current HR practices/procedures and implement new processes and best practices where appropriate.

Identify and monitor the organization's culture so that it supports the attainment of the company's goals and promotes employee satisfaction.

Partner with Director of Recruiting to ensure an effective strategy and programs are in place to meet the talent needs of the organization.

Direct the day to day implementation of the company's benefit plans, included but not limited to health and welfare benefits, retirement benefits, wellness programs, and time off plans.

Make recommendations, implement and administer competitive pay and incentive compensation programs; including the counseling of management on pay decisions, compensation practices, and policy and guideline interpretation.

Develop performance review strategy and training to ensure that constructive and actionable feedback is delivered to all levels of employees to improve overall performance and encourage a growth mindset.

Provide internal expertise and guidance concerning employee relations issues and matters, ensuring that human resources policies and best practices of human resources management are adhered to.

Oversee the design, development and administration of the HRIS system. Ensure data accuracy is maintained.

Successfully prepare for and navigate change within the organization in order to drive organizational success and outcomes.

Partner with Head of Culture to create programs, tools, and experiences that engage our team and encourage a positive culture.

Collaborate with the Learning and Development department to build and enhance learning programs to ensure that employees are continually developing and growing.

Assure that managers are trained in and kept informed of human resources policies and procedures and pertinent labor laws and practices and primary responsibility for HR Compliance program.

Track business unit performance strategies and metrics to maximize employees potential and continual understanding of goals and objectives. Analyze and provide summaries on trends to leadership.

Maintain a high level of morale and productivity within the HR team. Ensure all HR team members lead by example in accordance with the Company’s vision, mission, values, and competencies.

Provide direction, mentoring, coaching, and counselling to direct reports.

Provide expertise and assistance to employee coaching, counseling and disciplinary processes as needed.

Work on special projects and change efforts assigned by the Head of People Operations and Culture.

What We Like To See / Measures of Success:

Bachelor’s degree in a Business, Human Resources, or related field. Master’s degree preferred.

Minimum of 8 years of progressively responsible HR experience with at least 5 in a management or leadership role of HR Business Partners.

SPHR Certification or SHRM-SCP highly valued.

Excellent communication skills, a strong work ethic, self-confidence, and a high sense of urgency.

The highest degree of discretion and integrity.

Ability to drive and support organizational change.

Demonstrated ability to develop effective plans for execution of overall strategy in a rapidly changing environment.

Proven ability to build strong and lasting working relationships and partnerships.

Strong proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, HR platforms and tools, and a high technical aptitude.

Thorough understanding of recruitment, talent management and succession processes and tools.

Strong business acumen.

Working Conditions

Hours may vary as many shifts begin at 7am and end at 11pm. Weekends are also possible as we are operate seven days a week.

Position requires prolonged standing or sitting and repetitive hand and wrist motion.

Operates phones, computers, fax machines, copiers, and other office equipment.

 

 

NO RELOCATION IS AUTHORIZED FOR THIS POSITION. PREFERENCE FOR LOCAL CANDIDATES. The position requires prolonged standing or sitting and repetitive hand and wrist motion. Operates phones, computers, fax machines, copiers, and other office equipment. Diversity is important to us, therefore, Opcity is an Equal Opportunity Employer regardless of age, color, national origin, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital status, status as a disabled veteran and/or veteran of the Vietnam Era or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, Opcity will provide reasonable accommodations for otherwise qualified disabled individuals.

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Technology we use

  • Engineering
  • People Operations
    • JavascriptLanguages
    • PythonLanguages
    • ReactLibraries
    • FlaskFrameworks
    • MySQLDatabases
    • PostgreSQLDatabases
    • GITDatabases
    • AWSDatabases
    • Google HangoutsCollaboration
    • SlackCollaboration
    • ZoomCollaboration

Location

Cool downtown office nestled in the bars and restaurants of East 6th Street

An Insider's view of Realtor.com

How does your team reward individual success?

We reward success through recognition and appreciation. We often celebrate wins loudly and with fun events. It's one of the best parts of our culture!

Fluker

Consumer Experience Manager

What projects are you most excited about?

I'm most excited about how we're scaling our outreach to consumers which allows us to help more people every day. Not only that, but I love the pace we have in testing new consumer experiences!

Diane

Senior Product Manager

How has your career grown since starting at the company?

I’ve been with Realtor.com for exactly one year and I’ve grown a great deal. I’ve expanded my literacy from AWS to Python to React Native and been mentored all along the way.

Yufeng

Senior Software Engineer

How do your team's ideas influence the company's direction?

With 100 million unique users to Realtor.com a month, we play a leading role in the world's largest real estate network, sitting uniquely in this position of big data, while still being a mid-sized company that is able to democratize the information throughout the business. It’s an incredible position to be in.

Anne

Vice President, Product Management

What unique initiatives do you have that encourage innovation?

Our consumer success model is best in class, yet we continuously strive to build even better services and products for for the Realtor.com consumer.

James

Senior Training Manager

What are Realtor.com Perks + Benefits

Realtor.com Benefits Overview

At Realtor.com we fully embrace the value of having an inclusive culture where people can be their whole selves and do their best work. Having healthy and happy employees is extremely important, which is why we offer all of our employees more than just great basic health coverage. We strive for a culture where everyone feels fully "at home."

Culture
Volunteer in local community
We love our neighbors and think it important to give back to those in need. Our employees come together to volunteer and donate to local and national causes near and dear to their hearts.
Partners with nonprofits
From our volunteer work with Habitat for Humanity to our employee charitable gift matching per employee, our commitment to our communities is unwavering.
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Flexible work schedule
Austin Tech Center employees have flexible start and end times.
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Mandatory company-wide training on Inclusive leadership and inclusive culture.
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
Our Employee Resource Groups invite our employees as they bring their whole, authentic selves to work and engage with one another in taking action to build a more diverse and inclusive work space.
Hiring practices that promote diversity
Unbiased candidate sourcing, diverse candidate pools and removal of referral source data in support of unbiased candidate selection is our approach.
Health Insurance + Wellness
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Employees can contribute up to $2750 annually to their FSA.
Disability insurance
Realtor.com offers both short term and long term disability programs upon your date of hire at no cost to you.
Dental insurance
Realtor.com® offers two dental plans through Aetna. The Aetna Dental PPO allows flexibility to see in and out-of-network providers, while the Aetna Dental DMO is a low-cost, in-network only plan.
Vision insurance
Vision coverage is available through the Aetna Vision Preferred plan. It offers coverage for a variety of services both in and out-of-network.
Health insurance
For the 2021 plan year, there is a choice of four medical plans offered through Aetna and Kaiser.
Life insurance
Realtor.com® provides life insurance coverage for both Basic Life and Accidental Death and Dismemberment for all eligible employees.
Pet insurance
Coverage is available for accidents, illnesses and preventive care.
Wellness programs
Employees can access unlimited, on-demand, and personalized streaming videos on the topics of exercise, mindfulness, nutrition, sleep, and financial well-being.
Mental health benefits
News Corp and realtor.com provide a variety of choices for serving and supporting your emotional wellbeing needs.
Transgender health care benefits
Abortion travel benefits
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
At realtor.com®, there are two retirement saving accounts available; the Traditional 401(k) and the Roth 401(k). You may choose to contribute to either plan to participate in the employer matching.
401(K) matching
The News Corp 401(k) Savings Plan provides a matching program of 100% of the first 1% and 50% of the next 5% to help you make the most of your money.
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
Realtor.com offers charitable gift matching of up to $500 per employee annually.
Child Care & Parental Leave
Childcare benefits
A dependent care FSA reimburses you for eligible child and adult care expenses such as day care, before/after school care, nursery school, preschool, and summer day camp.
Generous parental leave
Paid Parental Leave to include bonding, adoption, & surrogacy (20 weeks for primary caregivers and 4 weeks for secondary caregivers)
Family medical leave
There may come a time when you need to begin a leave of absence to cover needs such as disability, caregiver leave, Family Member Leave Act (FMLA). MetLife will be your main point of contact.
Adoption Assistance
Company sponsored family events
Annual events including friends and family members are a company highlight.
Fertility benefits
Vacation + Time Off
Unlimited vacation policy
Generous PTO
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Office Perks
Company-sponsored outings
Free daily meals
Free snacks and drinks
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
Onsite office parking
Recreational clubs
Fitness stipend
Onsite gym
Professional Development
Job training & conferences
Tuition reimbursement
Realtor.com reimburses up to $5,000 annually, for graded courses/degree programs from accredited institutes. We also offer 50% reimbursement up to $2500 per year for job skill programs/certifications.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Our HomeGrown Mentoring Program is available for all full time employees.
Continuing education stipend
Continuing education available during work hours
Online course subscriptions available
Customized development tracks
Paid industry certifications
Personal development training

Additional Perks + Benefits

When we show up to work each day, regardless of title or tenure, we all want to be heard, be valued, and know that our contributions matter.

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