VP People

Amun is a leading cryptocurrency issuer which aims to make purchasing crypto more accessible, and efficient.

Under its 21Shares brand, Amun is the world’s largest issuer of crypto exchange-traded products (ETPs). The 21Shares suite of ETPs has simplified access to crypto for both institutional and retail investors in the traditional finance community. In a similar fashion, Amun aims to provide tokens that will make it easy for the crypto community to access sophisticated strategies that are not otherwise readily available in this space.

Amun 21Shares is a team of entrepreneurs, engineers, and financial product developers who are uniquely placed to revolutionize cryptocurrency investing through the issuance of our broad range of tokens. Our goal is to make these tokens present a new paradigm in cryptocurrency investing and to facilitate their use.

Our investment in superior technology and automation has enabled us to both release products, as well as work directly with top organizations including the Bitcoin Cash Foundation, Bitcoin Suisse, Binance, Bitwise, Coinbase, FlowTraders, Sygnum, and the Tezos Foundation as launch partners or customers of Onyx, our full stack issuance platform.

Job Summary:

To fuel Amun’s growth, we are seeking a VP People and Culture to join the company’s Leadership Team.

Given the current and anticipated growth, the VP People and Culture is a high stakes, high visibility position both internally and externally. The company needs an innovative and forward-thinking leader who can blend sound business judgment with People function expertise while using innate resourcefulness and creativity. The mandate calls for a company builder, a strategist and a highly engaged, and empathetic individual to lead an essential business capability and to foster a world class company culture.

Specifically, the VP People and Culture will be the architect of the strategies and processes that enable the end-to-end Amun employee lifecycle.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute People strategies, programs, processes and policies across the entire employee lifecycle that are aligned with the company’s growth objectives.
• Oversee recruitment, interview, selection, and hiring processes.
• Effectively structure benefits programs to attract and retain top talent.
• Establish operational excellence including leveraging technology and analytics towards creating strong People practices.
• Build Amun’s organization that is highly mission and values-aligned in order to create a sought after employer brand.
• Be a steward of Amun’s culture and values. Exemplifying what it means to be human-centered, a partner, future oriented, an owner and able to celebrate along the way.
• Act as a Trusted Partner who represents and embodies the best interests of the company and its people.
• Serve as an intermediary between the Amun Leadership Team and employees on critical people issues.

Experience and Leadership Capability

The VP People must:

• Thrive in a fast-paced, high growth environment with proven track record in building and running People programs at large and small companies.
• Minimum 7 years of experience across multiple People functions with at least 3 years in a Senior Leadership role at a high growth technology company.Start-up experience is a bonus.
• Direct experience supporting complex workforce footprints - across geographies and worker types.
• Demonstrate ability to manage a direct team as well as indirect stakeholders in support of an organization’s strategy.
• Possess strong business acumen with the ability to create win-win strategies that advance the development of our teams and the strategic and financial trajectory of the company.
• Ability to practice calm and sound judgement under pressure and in support of the organization and our people.
• Experience in Talent Acquisition desired, but not required.