Senior Director, People
About CoLab At CoLab, we help engineering teams bring life-changing products to the world years sooner. CoLab is the AI platform for driving stronger engineering decisions. Every design review in CoLab builds a knowledge repository of design feedback, decisions, and lessons learned - which AI agents draw from to flag issues on future designs before they compound. The more your team works in CoLab, the smarter it gets and the faster you arrive at the ideal design. Companies like Ford, Komatsu, and Johnson Controls use CoLab to catch issues earlier, eliminate rework cycles, and bring products to market faster. Founded in St. John’s, Newfoundland, CoLab has grown quickly from our first customer in 2018 to a rapidly scaling company. We’ve recently been recognized on Deloitte’s Fast 50™ and Fast 500™, and named a company to watch by The Globe and Mail and Financial Post. About the Role We're looking for a collaborative and hands-on Senior Director, People & Operations to help build CoLab to become an industry leader. In this role, you'll own the systems, structure, and talent strategy that allow a high-performing company to scale without losing what makes it great. You'll work together with our CEO and CTO to solve some of the most sensitive organizational challenges we'll face over the next several years. As you take ownership of these problems, you'll create the space for them to spend more of their time on customers, product, and company strategy. This role will enable leaders to make difficult organizational decisions with confidence, while raising the standard for how we hire, develop, organize, and operate. This role is for someone who’s energized by complexity. If you're looking for a steady-state People function to maintain, this probably isn't it. If you're excited by building systems that help exceptional people do the best work of their careers, we'd love to talk. Our Ideal Candidate You believe talent density is a competitive advantage and you're willing to make difficult tradeoffs to protect it. You're equally comfortable discussing organizational design with executives and coaching a new manager through a difficult conversation. You don't default to adding more process. You build systems that increase clarity, accountability, and speed. You're highly operational. You know that great culture isn't created through perks or program - it's built through consistently making strategic choices about who joins the company, how teams are structured, how performance is managed, and how people are developed. Responsibilities Design and continuously evolve CoLab's organizational structure to support scale. Serve as the trusted business partner to every functional leader, helping them build high-performing teams, make better organizational decisions, navigate difficult people challenges, and run their functions with greater clarity and effectiveness. Build scalable operating systems and cross-functional processes that improve execu...