VP, Talent

At Early Warning, we’ve powered and protected the U.S. financial system for over thirty years with cutting-edge solutions like Zelle®, Paze℠, and so much more. As a trusted name in payments, we partner with thousands of institutions to increase access to financial services and protect transactions for hundreds of millions of consumers and small businesses.

Positions located in Scottsdale, San Francisco, Chicago, or New York follow a hybrid work model to allow for a more collaborative working environment.

Candidates responding to this posting must independently possess the eligibility to work in the United States, for any employer, at the date of hire. This position is ineligible for employment Visa sponsorship.

Overall Purpose

This position is accountable for developing strategies, creating, and managing talent and organization effectiveness programs including talent acquisition, management/leadership development, success planning, employee training, diversity and inclusion, and organizational design. 
 

Essential Functions

Talent: Develop and implement talent management strategy and solutions, career paths, university hiring programs, talent reviews, succession planning, executive assessment, coaching and individual development planning. Manage inventories of critical roles and skill sets with a focus on strengthening long term succession for these roles, and in the short term, help to ensure that they are filled with high potentials. Support the development and mobility of high potential employees at senior and mid-career levels, ensuring an enhanced pipeline of high performing professional talent. Proactively keep abreast of training & development and talent management innovations and trends. Incorporate best practices and learning theory into overall learning strategies and program offerings.

Staffing: Cultivate programs designed to attract and retain the talent and skills necessary to grow the company. Develop and implement the talent acquisition strategy to drive innovative hiring processes, including an overall assessment methodology that is aligned with the company’s core leadership values and competency model.

Learning & Development: Develop strategies and programs to prepare current staff so that they have the skills and knowledge needed to support/ enhance performance. Manage multiple vendor relationships in support of training initiatives, assessment tools, and designated system needs. Assist in conducting RFP processes, contract negotiations, and oversee vendor engagements. Manage and determine training needs for programs that may vary in scale. Analyze the impact of training programs, and make recommendations for changes, as needed. And, provide executive level reporting on training initiatives.

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion:  Develop and implement Diversity and Inclusion programs.  Own the company’s affirmative action planning process.

Leadership:  Provide exceptional leadership in developing highly engaged, high performance teams.

Minimum Qualifications

• Education and experience typically obtained through completion of a bachelor’s degree in Human Resources or a related field.

• 15 or more years of broad HR or Business management experience, including Talent Acquisition, Talent Management, Training & Development, and Performance Management or senior-level business operations/consultation experience

• Demonstrated success developing and retaining highly engaged, high performing teams and aligning talent to meet business objectives.

• Strong communication, coaching, and organizational design skills

• Pragmatic and analytical

• Experience designing, developing, and supporting organization-wide talent management, talent acquisition, training & development.

• A solid understanding and/or experience in project management

• Experience managing staff and multiple large-scale projects to ensure on-time delivery and quality using both internal and external resources.

• Effective and adaptable communication to successfully work collaboratively with trainers, project management, and formal and ad-hoc teams.

• Demonstrated strong problem-solving skills; must be able to work under pressure to resolve problems quickly and professionally.

• Background and drug screen.

Physical Requirements

Working conditions consist of a normal office environment. Work is primarily sedentary and requires extensive use of a computer and involves sitting for periods of approximately four hours. Work may require occasional standing,