Head of People

**About Fable**

Fable is a Toronto-based accessibility company that is helping businesses make their digital products and services accessible to a billion people with disabilities worldwide. We've built a platform that connects digital teams to people with disabilities for user research and testing. Our customers include Microsoft, Slack, Shopify, and many more.

Fable is a unique company, especially when it comes to disability inclusion. We don't use a single way to assess an individual's value and it's a key component of our talent engine.

**About the role**

The mission of the Head of People is to enable Fable's successful growth. We are looking for an exceptional people leader to join our senior leadership team and take on all strategic and tactical aspects of people and HR as we scale. The Head of People is joining a team of three full time employees, a small team of contractors, and external vendors.

The Head of People is a thought leader in establishing programs and practices that build culture, develop employees, and attract and retain the best talent. This role partners with the leaders across the company to help them build and develop their teams, make effective people-related decisions based on data, and establish strong communication channels across our remote-first team.

**Responsibilities**:

- **People operations**: Drive operational efficiencies across document management, HRIS/ATS; performance review cycles; talent planning; compensation reviews and planning; benefits administration; legal and regulatory compliance across Canada and the US, workplace safety, etc.
- **Talent acquisition**: Lead our talent acquisition practice, continuing to build on our foundational processes and implementing strategies to attract, hire, and retain top talent across the company with a focus on building a diverse and inclusive team.
- **Talent planning**:Be a strategic partner to all teams in talent planning, identifying resource needs, and understanding and addressing knowledge and skills gaps required to execute on company goals.
- **Employee enablement**: Oversee Fable's learning and development programs and help drive a high-performance, high-growth mindset that focuses on career development and growth. Build, develop and inspire a team of thoughtful, driven and curious individuals. Invest in and support their overall career success.
- **Culture-obsessed**:Be a champion of Fable culture, helping the team understand** and **live our core values through programs that engage the team while achieving company goals.
- **Trusted advisor**: Act as a trusted advisor to our leadership team on all things people and culture, holding our leaders to a high standard and building an inclusive, supportive workplace.

**Requirements**:
**Key qualifications and assets**:

- In people leadership role for 5+ years
- Solid HR Generalist background
- Ability to influence, negotiate, and push back to secure decisions positively impacting Fable and its team
- Experience with the scale of a rapidly growing company from start-up to scale-up

**You must be**:

- A natural coach and mentor with an ability to foster relationships with all levels of the team, to relate well with others, to listen effectively, and to help employees at all levels achieve their development goals
- Focused on details, with a tendency to err on the side of caution
- A self-directed leader with a growth mindset
- An excellent project and people manager with experience forecasting and driving key business results
- Awareness of accessibility, disability, inclusion and experience building diverse teams
- Open to working in a fast-moving team
- Able to work within bounds of North American time zones, Eastern Time preferred
- Experience working with remote-first teams
- Experience considering and designing workplace accommodations

**Benefits**

**What's in it for you?**

At Fable, you'll join a vibrant and rapid growth environment where you'll work with individuals who share the same values of being passionate, socially driven, inclusive, collaborative, and respectful. We offer great benefits such as stock options, career progression, professional development, health/dental benefits, and more.

**Accessibility accommodations