Director of People Operations

About ReKlame Health Sixty million adults experience mental health challenges in the United States, yet one-third lack access to proper care. Opioid overdose is the number one cause of death for people under 50 in the United States. We are a clinician-led, tech-enabled provider group that exists to provide culturally competent behavioral health care addiction care, medication management, crisis intervention, and care coordination for people working towards taking back control of their lives, while expanding access to care. Our vision at ReKlame Health is to create a future where individuals who have historically been unable to access the care they deserve can readily obtain high-quality behavioral health and addiction care. At ReKlame Health, it goes beyond mere employment; it's about becoming a part of a formidable movement transcending individuality. Let's unite and forge a world where health equity and effortless access to exceptional mental healthcare can co-exist. Director of People Operations REPORTS TO CEO / Founder DIRECT REPORTS People Operations Manager ALSO PARTNERS WITH Clinical Recruiter, PEO, Director of Clinical Operations, Business Operations SCOPE Member of the ReKlame leadership team · owns the people budget LOCATION Grand Central, NYC 5 days in office for the first six months, 4 days thereafter COMPENSATION $145-165K base + performance bonus + equity ABOUT REKLAME HEALTH Sixty million adults experience mental health challenges in the United States, yet one-third lack access to proper care. Opioid overdose is the number one cause of death for people under 50 in the United States. We are a clinician-led, fast-growing, tech-enabled provider group delivering culturally competent behavioral health and addiction care, medication management, crisis intervention, and care coordination across New York, New Jersey, and Florida. Our vision is a future where people who have historically been unable to access the care they deserve can readily obtain it. We are scaling fast, which is exactly why this role exists. ABOUT THE ROLE ReKlame Health is seeking a Director of People Operations to own the employee lifecycle for a workforce spanning clinical providers (psychiatric NPs, therapists) and corporate teams across three states. Today this work is distributed across leadership; this role consolidates it into a single accountable function. The job is four buckets, deliberately weighted toward the first three: talent, performance, and culture. The fourth, the operational engine, is real but supported: a PEO handles payroll, benefits, and multi-state compliance mechanics, and a People Operations Manager reports to you to run day-to-day administration. Much of the foundation already exists: a PEO, a title-and-leveling framework, an onboarding buildout, and a first performance review cycle behind us, but it needs an owner who can systematize, scale, and run it. THIS IS A LEADERSHIP ROLE We mean that structurally, not as a compliment. Four things come with the seat: A seat at the leadership table. You participate in quarterly and annual planning, own the people section of company planning, and report people metrics to the CEO and, when relevant, the board. A budget you own. Compensation planning, recruiting and agency spend, the PEO contract, HR tooling, and learning and development. You build the case, make the trade-offs, and answer for the spend. Org design and workforce planning. You own the workforce plan and partner with the CEO, Clinical Operations, and Finance on org structure, spans of control, and the sequencing of hiring against the growth model — including the case for growing your own function. Trusted advisor to leadership. You will coach and challenge your peers at the leadership level, delivering honest and sometimes difficult feedback. We are looking for someone with the judgment to know when to push back, not someone who simply agrees. OUR CULTURE We are a mission-driven team of builders who take radical ownership, hold each other accountable, and collaborate without ego. What that looks like day to day: Mission first. Everything we build serves our purpose of expanding access to high-quality, culturally competent care for people who have historically been left out. Builders, not maintainers. We see the gap, build the thing, and own the outcome. People energized by ambiguity thrive here; those who need a fully-defined lane do not. Move fast, bring order. We scale fast, but we convert speed into systems. We value people who can do both, not one or the other. Collaborate without ego. We figure it out together across Clinical Ops, Finance, and Business Operations. We prize partnership over turf. Accountable to outcomes. Scorecards, owners, and deadlines over activity or polish. WHAT YOU’LL OWN 1. Talent — bring in top-tier people, everywhere we hire The bar is the point. We are not looking for someone who fills seats; we are looking for someone who consistently lands excellent, mission-aligned candidates who are better than our current average. You own recruiting strategy and pipeline across all three channels — clinical hires (psychiatric NPs, therapists), non-clinical and corporate hires , and our special programs : internships and early-career pipelines that let us build talent rather than merely source/acquire it. A clinical recruiter drives sourcing and screening on provider roles; you set the strategy, own the bar, and answer for the outcome across all three. Define the hiring bar and hold it — scorecards, structured interviews, and calibrated hiring managers, so “great” means the same thing across every team. Drive role definition, comp benchmarking, and offer construction, and close the candidates we most want, including the discretion and compliance considerations unique to clinical offers, where licensure and credentialing timelines shape what we can offer and when. Build and run our internship and early-career programs as a genuine pipeline — sourcing, structure, mentorship, and conversion into full-time roles. Make hiring predictable, measurable, and fast without trading down on quality: pipeline health, time-to-fill, and offer acceptance, as well as quality of hire, 90-day retention, and hiring manager confidence in the slate. Maintain the pay band and leveling architecture offers are built from, so parallel clinical and non-clinical careers are compensated coherently by state — and so we can pay for excellence without breaking internal equity. 2. Performance — develop our talent and build an exceptional culture Performance management here is not a paperwork exercise. It is how we grow people and how our culture gets reinforced or eroded. Build review cadence, templates, and calibration so ratings and promotions are consistent across teams. Set goal-setting frameworks that connect individual goals to company priorities. Development and career pathing: growth plans and clear paths for both clinical and non-clinical tracks, so strong people can see a reason to stay. Talent review identifies our high performers and future leaders, deliberately invests in them, and knows where our succession risk lies. Manager enablement: coaching a leadership layer to set expectations, give feedback, develop their people, and address underperformance early. 3. Culture — steward culture and employee relations As a growing team finds its rhythm, you will be a stabilizing force. Handle the sequencing of sensitive internal communications so change lands well. Manage employee relations issues with discretion and fairness. Serve as a trusted point of contact for employees, separate from the direct reporting line. Protect retention where it costs us most — provider attrition directly affects patient continuity and revenue. 4. People Operations — own the people engine, with leverage This function should run quietly. With a People Operations Manager reporting to you and a PEO carrying the mechanics, the standard is not that you handled it — it is that it stopped needing to be handled. Onboarding and offboarding. Standardized flows on our multi-platform infrastructure, the credentialing handoff with Clinical Operations so onboarding and billing-readiness move in lockstep, and clean, compliant offboarding across all three states. PEO and compliance administration. Multi-state payroll and benefits, I-9 / E-Verify, and state-specific employment law across NY, NJ, and FL. You are the point person when PEO issues surface — and the reason they stop surfacing. Policy and people data. The handbook is maintained across all three states with no policy creating exposure in any one of them, plus the reporting layer beneath your workforce plan — attrition, headcount against plan, and workforce data feeding financial forecasting. YOUR FIRST YEAR Days 1–30 — Diagnose. Map open roles and pipeline health, where our hiring bar is inconsistent, performance review learnings to date, the leveling framework and pay data, culture and retention signals, and the operational baseline. Set the division of labor with your Manager and the working model with our clinical recruiter. Deliver a People Operations diagnostic and 90-day plan. Days 31–60 — Build. Stand up the recruiting pipeline tracker and hiring cadence; the review cadence and templates; and the pay band framework by state. Through your Manager and the PEO, stand up the onboarding and offboarding playbooks and the multi-state compliance calendar. Days 61–90 — Show movement. Active pipelines for every open role with a defined bar in use by every hiring manager; a plan for the next internship cohort; the next review cycle scheduled and templated with managers trained to run it; zero open compliance gaps; and a first attrition and headcount dashboard feeding forecasting. After that, you are measured on company outcomes rather than activity: provider capacity staffed to support our patient growth targets, key clinicians and leaders retained with provider attrition trending down, an engagement baseline established and improving, a leadership layer that manages better because of you, and a people function that runs without needing the CEO in it. WHO YOU ARE You have 7+ years of progressive people operations experience and have built people functions, not just administered them, including hands‑on ownership of a PEO or HRIS without a big team behind you. You have likely done this at a scaling healthcare company where the workforce is mixed licensed clinicians and corporate staff. Required A track record of raising the talent bar: you can point to specific hires you landed, how you found them, and how you closed them. Full-cycle recruiting experience for both licensed clinical roles and corporate roles, including comp benchmarking and offer construction. Experience designing performance review processes, development or career frameworks, leveling, or pay bands from scratch, not inheriting and maintaining them. Experience owning a budget and operating at the leadership-team level, advising a founder or CEO directly. Demonstrated discretion handling sensitive employee relations matters, and experience managing at least one direct report. 4 days a week in person at our beautiful New York City Grand Central Office Preferred Digital health, Behavioral health, substance use/addiction care, or a similar care-delivery model. Clinical hiring compliance: licensure verification, credentialing timelines, and provider onboarding. Building internship, residency, or other early-career pipeline programs, including university or training-program partnerships. SHRM-CP/SCP or PHR/SPHR certification; onboarding infrastructure in tools like Notion and Trainual. Must-have traits Discreet and trusted. People bring you hard things because you handle them with judgment, confidentiality, and fairness. A closer on talent. You hold a high bar under pressure to just fill the seat, and you treat an unfilled clinical role as a revenue problem. Willing to be the counterweight. You can disagree with a peer and hold your position with evidence, and stay in the room afterward. Commercially fluent. You can hold a budget, defend a headcount request in financial terms, and connect people decisions to revenue and patient access. BENEFITS & PERKS Salary: 145,000 to 165,000 Annual bonus based on performance milestones Equity, e.g., stock options Medical, dental, and vision coverage. 401(k) with company matching, Short-Term Disability, FSA, HSA, and an Employee Assistance Program through Spring Health. Pre-tax commuter benefits for our Grand Central office. 21 days of PTO plus 8 company holidays. EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY STATEMENT ReKlame Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state, or local law. ReKlame Health considers several factors to ensure a fair and competitive offer when evaluating compensation packages. These include the role’s scope and responsibilities, the candidate’s work experience, education, and training, and their essential skills. Internal peer equity is also examined to maintain balance within the organization. Additionally, current market conditions and overall organizational needs are crucial in shaping the final offer. Each aspect is thoughtfully reviewed before an offer is extended, ensuring a comprehensive and equitable approach. Learn more about us at *We never ask for money or sensitive personal information during the job application process. If you receive an email or message claiming to be from us that requests such information, please do not respond and report it as a scam. AI USE IN HIRING DISCLOSURE ReKlame Health uses an automated tool to help screen and score applications for this role. The tool evaluates skills, experience, and qualifications described in your application against the requirements for this position. 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