Fast Facts

MagicSchool is looking for a Vice President of People to lead their HR function, focusing on building a high-performance culture and an exceptional talent acquisition system as the company scales.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include designing hiring plans, establishing recruiting processes, fostering a values-centered culture, and building effective HR systems and a high-performing HR team.

Skills: Candidates should possess exceptional communication skills, strong business acumen, a hands-on leadership style, and a data-driven mindset, alongside proven HR function scaling experience.

Qualifications: Preferred qualifications include experience in scaling HR in high-growth environments, familiarity with performance management and compensation frameworks, and expertise in data analytics related to people operations.

Location: This position is located in the USA.

Compensation: $225000 - $275000 / Annually

WHO WE ARE: MagicSchool is the premier generative AI platform for teachers. We're just over 2 years old, and more than 6 million teachers from all over the world have joined our platform. Join a top team at a fast growing company that is working towards real social impact. Make an account and try us out at our website and connect with our passionate community on our Wall of Love.

Role Description

As Vice President of People you will be the chief architect and strategic partner responsible for the People function, scaling a high-performance, values-centered culture and building a world-class talent acquisition engine to support the company's aggressive growth.

Your mandate is to ensure that as we scale the organization, every system implemented reinforces a high-performance, values-centered culture that champions excellence, speed and our relentless drive to save teachers time and energy.

Responsibilities

In this role, you will be responsible for driving towards the following outcomes:

• Build a World-Class Talent Acquisition Engine:
• Design, implement, and manage a hiring plan aligned with company growth strategy.
• Establish strong recruiting processes, training, metrics, and best practices to ensure hiring quality, speed, and diversity.
• Be responsible for hiring bar-raising employees every month across key functions.
• Foster a High-Performance, Values-Centered Culture:
• Partner with leadership to model and drive culture-behaviors.
• Create, maintain, and embed artifacts, rituals, and narratives that reinforce company values.
• Establish a culture of continuous feedback, growth, and accountability.
• Achieve industry-leading Employee Net Promoter Score (eNPS).
• Establish and Scale Compliant, Values-Aligned Systems & Processes:
• Iterate on leveling, compensation, and performance management frameworks that scale with the business.
• Ensure compliance with all relevant labor laws and regulations across multi-state and global operations.
• Own employee relations, policy, HR operations, and the enablement of effective manager practices.
• Build and maintain people systems/HRIS, data, and analytics to support scale.
• Build and Lead a High-Performing People Operations Team:
• Hire top-tier HR Business Partners and Talent Acquisition professionals.
• Define ambitious goals and metrics for the People team and hold the team accountable.
• Coach, mentor, and develop the team for long-term enterprise impact.
• Foster a team culture of business partnership, high velocity, and ownership.

Experience & Qualifications

To be successful in this role, you’ll bring the following experience and qualifications:

• Ability to Drive to Results: Proven ability to plan backwards from success, obsess over metrics and execution, and execute on the mantra, "that which gets measured gets done."
• Exceptional Communication: Capable of aligning executives, managers, and employees; ability to influence at all levels.
• Strong Business Acumen: Understands the business strategy and directly connects People work to business outcomes.
• Hands-on Leader: Comfortable "doing" as well as leading; thrives in ambiguity and change.
• Data-Driven Mindset: Uses people analytics and insights to guide strategy and decisions.
• High Integrity, Values-Led: Ability to build trust and credibility across the organization.

Required Experience

• Proven experience in scaling People/HR functions in a high-growth, fast-paced environment (Series B or similar).
• Experience scaling from ~150–300 employees.
• Prior experience driving Talent Acquisition at scale, performance management systems, compensation frameworks, compliance, and culture initiatives.
• Experience in the SaaS industry.
• Demonstrated success building a feedback culture and improving eNPS.
• Experience moving a company off a PEO (Professional Employer Organization) onto its own systems.
• Prior experience building advanced people systems (HRIS, ATS, people analytics).

Nice-to-Have Experience

• Experience in EdTech.

Why Join Us?

• Work on cutting-edge AI technology that directly impacts educators and students.
• Join a mission-driven team passionate about making education more efficient and equitable.
• Flexibility of working from home, while fostering a unique culture built on relationships, trust, communication, and collaboration with our team - no matter where they live.
• Unlimited time off to empower our employees to manage their work-life balance. We work hard for our teachers and users, and encourage our employees to rest and take the time they need.
• Choice of employer-paid health insurance plans so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Dental and vision are also offered at very low premiums.
• Every employee is offered generous stock options, vested over 4 years.
• Plus a 401k match & monthly wellness stipend

Our Values:

• Educators are Magic: Educators are the most important ingredient in the educational process - they are the magic, not the AI. Trust them, empower them, and put them at the center of leading change in service of students and families.
• Joy and Magic: Bring joy and magic into every learning experience - push the boundaries of what’s possible with AI.
• Community: Foster community that supports one another during a time of rapid technological change. Listen to them and serve their needs.
• Innovation: The education system is outdated and in need of innovation and change - AI is an opportunity to bring equity, access, and serve the individual needs of students better than we ever have before.
• Responsibility: Put responsibility and safety at the forefront of the technological change that AI is bringing to education.
• Diversity: Diversity of thought, perspectives, and backgrounds helps us serve the wide audience of educators and students around the world.
• Excellence: Educators and students deserve the best - and we strive for the highest quality in everything we do.