About Sprout
Roots Technology is disrupting traditional equity management tools and solving universal pain points with Sprout, a comprehensive suite of stakeholder management software-as-a-service (SaaS). Sprout enables companies to efficiently manage cap tables, employee stock options and shareholders as a single source of truth, saving time and money.
Roots was founded by an ex-Uber Asia business executive and a China product and engineering leader with a combined 35-years of global startup experience launching companies at scale and cultivating large teams. We were founded in 2019 in Hong Kong and co-located in Beijing. We recently raised our first external round of financing from a group of influential, early-stage investors, including a tier 1 venture capital firm.
For What We Are Hiring
Sprout is looking for a Head of People and Administration to help us build out our company operations and People Team. This leadership role will drive strategy, advocacy, recruitment and employee partnerships and, ultimately, growth. You will start from the ground up to build and launch the very rocket ship in which you will ride. Join us in our mission to help teams better manage their stakeholders.
Team You Are Joining
This is a pure startup environment and you will be joining our founding team in Hong Kong and be part of the management of this startup. You will work with our co-founders and will be shaping the many early team culture and structure the business. This role will also closely work with our stakeholders such as product and engineering teammates.
Problem You Will Solve
As the founding member of Sprout, you will play a key role in building and nurturing our people experience, operational foundations and all related relationships. You will be helping the company quickly ramp up in terms of many organizational issues such as building headcount and hypothesizing, testing and solving some early development related issues that will shape the future of the organization.
As Head of People, you will begin by wear many hats and champion many initiatives, including leading all recruitment efforts across departments including managing external recruiters, candidate sourcing, interview loops and onboarding teammates in Hong Kong and Beijing. You will also manage our early administrative, business operations, and where ever help is needed.
You will act as a business partner to the co-founders and management team to build and maintain a transparent, world class, empathetic and high performing company culture. You will lead in the creation and socialization our core values. Your role is to ensure teammates are coming up with solutions while “doing the right thing.”
As Head of Administration, you will immediately roll up your sleeves and dive deep into the water and support all administrative tasks and challenges in a fast-paced environment. You will be known as a logistical “fixer” and an experienced “air traffic controller”.
As part of a new startup, there are a lot of tasks and problems that require a detailed oriented, thoughtful and proactive person. There will also be many times where you will be needed to strategically “block and tackle” for your executives.
About the Role
As the founding member of the People Team, you will play a key role in building and nurturing our people experience, operational foundations and all related relationships. You will be an experienced problem solver, diagnosing problems and testing solutions, and delivering value expeditiously and at high levels of excellence. We want you to be a driving force behind creating a stellar employee experience at Sprout.
In this role, you will design, build and champion our People strategy, framework and most importantly, our company values. You will map, categorize and track the key People performance metrics. You will partner with internal and external partners to build workflows and process improvements that result in more reliable, effective People data. You will set the standard of rigor for how Sprout’s teams interact with and use our systems.
At Sprout, and particularly within this role, a successful Head of People will have the ability to operate and manage comfortably and effectively in a fast-paced, startup environment. You have authentic relationship building skills and are self-driven. You are detailed, organized, strategic and even creative with solutions that align interests and motivate all parties to work together. Preferred, though not required, experience as an early stage founder, head of HR, and/or venture stage senior recruitment professional.
Your friends describe you as highly organized, meticulous and extremely helpful. You the kind of person that takes initiative and seeks to create order out of things that are left unorganized. Because of this, you will be called upon for your ninja skills to organize and execute a range of projects and activities.
You are a strong communicator (fluency in Mandarin with simplified Chinese reading and writing is a plus) with deep experience connecting with C-level executives and decision makers. You understand what it takes to work in a pure startup environment, and may even have experience working in and/or are passionate about the venture capital and start-up ecosystem.
We are building stakeholder management tools for teams so we will lead by example with a world class culture that promotes transparency, empathy, diversity and inclusion -- to enable our people to reach their maximum potential. Finally, but not least, you are a team player and grounded in strong ethical and moral beliefs.
Benefits and Perks
You will have a unique opportunity to join a startup and learn the best practices from Silicon Valley and China against the backdrop of a global financial hub as Hong Kong. This is a startup in which you will learn and be compensated with a competitive combination of cash and a generous equity stake that will also grow as we hit operational and strategic milestones. We will be expanding our perks to include a full range of benefits, including full health insurance and other reimbursement programs. Other perks will be related to created a fun, comfortable working environment that seeks to balance and award outright sprinting, pure hustle and a sustainable work-life balance.