The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) is a $1.5 billion philanthropy working at the intersection of artificial intelligence, data science, and the public interest. This role exists to make sure the team advancing our mission is supported, developed, and set up to do the best work of their careers.
\nThe Head of People Operations reports to the VP, People and Culture, and leads several critical pillars of the P&C function: manager capability, performance culture, organizational and manager learning, technical and non-technical recruiting, employee relations, HR compliance, and benefits.
\nThis is a role for someone who excels at both strategic people conversations and being in the weeds of an employee relations matter. You bring sound judgment to hard situations. You build teams and systems that hold up over time. You care about the mission, and that care shows up in how you treat your colleagues every day.
","id":"60225ec8-6f0d-4d34-83bf-24c5bfb89f73","lists":[{"text":"How You’ll Make An Impact ","content":"Employee Relations: Lead employee relations responsibilities and serve as a primary point of contact for employee questions, concerns, and policy interpretation. Independently handle employee relations matters, including advising managers on performance and conduct issues and resolving workplace concerns with limited oversight. Document issues and processes with precision. Exercise judgment in identifying and escalating highly complex or high-risk matters to the VP and outside counsel with a clear written record.
\nManager Coaching and Development: Design and run a manager coaching curriculum for people managers across all functions. Coach managers through employee relations situations: performance concerns, difficult conversations, team dynamics, and conflict resolution. Maintain and refine a manager toolkit to reduce reliance on P&C for routine people-related decisions. Identify capability gaps across the management layer and build targeted development responses.
\nTalent Acquisition: Lead full-cycle recruiting for technical and non-leadership roles, including sourcing, screening, interview design, and offer coordination. Manage the ATS and ensure a consistent, well-documented candidate experience. Develop interview frameworks tied to PJMF's competency model. Support the VP on senior searches.
\nPerformance Management: Own the annual and mid-year review cycle end-to-end: system launch, communication, calibration preparation, timeline management, and quality review. Maintain and improve our performance management infrastructure on our 3rd party platform. Support managers in writing evidence-based assessments. Flag patterns across team ratings and bring a calibration perspective to the VP.
\nLearning and Development: Build an annual L&D calendar aligned to organizational competency needs. Design onboarding that accelerates time-to-contribution for new hires. Source and manage external facilitators and vendors for specific programs or organizational needs.
\nHR Operations and Compliance: Own day-to-day HR operations: new hire setup, offboarding, employment verifications, and status changes. Administer benefits in partnership with our PEO. Maintain compliance with federal and multi-state employment law requirements for a remote workforce. Manage record retention and I-9 compliance. Maintain HRIS accuracy and serve as the primary system administrator for all people systems.
\n10 or more years in HR, with at least 7 years in roles focused on employee relations, manager development and coaching, or talent management. Technical recruiting experience required. Experience managing a team is preferred.
\nDemonstrated experience coaching managers through performance and conduct situations effectively.
\nDeep working knowledge across core HR disciplines: employee relations, talent development, performance management, full-cycle recruitment, compensation and benefits, and multi-state employment law.
\nExperience designing and delivering effective learning programs that drive behavior change. Demonstrated ability to deliver coaching conversations and group facilitation sessions for managers at all levels. You can build a persuasive argument verbally and in writing. Stakeholders leave your sessions clear on what matters and what to do next.
\nHands-on experience with Google Workspace, Asana, Culture Amp, or a comparable performance platform, an ATS, and LinkedIn Recruiter. Demonstrated use of AI tools in an HR context, with enough working knowledge to evaluate new tools, spot limitations, and advise the team on practical applications.
\nHands-on experience with HRIS platforms, benefits administration, and multi-state compliance in a remote workforce.
\nBachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field, or equivalent experience. HR certification is strongly preferred.
\nCommunication and influence. You read the room and adjust. With a skeptical manager, you are direct and concrete. With senior leadership, you lead with the implication. Your documentation stands on its own. Managers come to you before situations escalate because your advice works.
\nSound judgment. You know when a decision is not yours to make alone, and you say so clearly. You are analytical when data is available and decisive when it is not. You see trends in people data and name them to leadership without being asked.
\nExecution. You bring structure to ambiguous work. You take a program from concept to rollout and track what is working without being prompted. When you own something, it gets done.
\nProcess and people in balance. You hold the line on process without losing sight of the person in front of you. You are consistent without being rigid.
\nEquity in practice. You have changed a hiring, performance, or development outcome through this lens. You can point to the specific decision you made differently and what happened as a result.
\nAI fluency. You have used AI tools in HR work, whether in recruiting, performance, or people analytics. You understand where these tools add value and where human judgment cannot be replaced. You can help the team think through adoption decisions with that context in hand.
\nComfort with start-up-like environments. You have worked in a place where strategic and administrative work land in the same space. You treat operational tasks with equal urgency as larger initiatives. You understand that credibility at this scale is built through consistent execution.
\nRemote-first effectiveness. You thrive in a 100% remote environment and can build connections to work and people without having to share physical space. You communicate proactively in writing. You build relationships without relying on proximity. You stay visible without being performative.
\nThe salary range for this is $130,000-$150,000. Starting salaries are typically placed in the lower half of the range, with flexibility based on the experience you bring. Beyond career-defining work, we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support you along the way:
\n\nHealth Coverage – Foundation-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees, spouses/domestic partners, and dependents. Coverage includes family planning support, a One Medical subscription, and begins on the date of hire.
\nLong-term Rewards – 401(k) retirement plan with generous matching up to 6% of annual pay, plus an additional discretionary match at the end of the year.
\nPTO & Leave Options – Paid time off, which allows team members to take the time they need for vacation, illness, volunteer time, bereavement, medical leave, so they can return to work able to contribute fully to our mission. The foundation recognizes 11 paid national holidays per year and also hosts a winter break at the end of the year.
\nRemote Work Environment - Ability to work 100% remotely within the USA, but not alone, with mature, socially minded professionals. Annual all staff summit in the Summer. Remote work stipend to support remote working needs.
\nWellness Support – Employee Assistance Programs, access to Ginger, Headspace, and SmartSpend Plus, along with financial well-being providers
\nLearning Reimbursements – Foundation policy encouraging employees to explore development opportunities such as peer learning, internal training, and external activities; savings on student loans (available via insurance provider)
\nPhilanthropic Gift Matching – opportunity for team members to support nonprofits in their community, reflecting PJMF’s commitment to social impact
\nPJMF is committed to fair and transparent compensation practices. Our salary ranges are informed by market data from peer organizations in our sector. Our salaries are competitive and equitable, and they align with peers in the same job group. Because salary ranges are small and the internal parity review is thorough, offers are firm.
\nIt is important to us that our hiring process is accessible to everyone. If you require accommodations to participate in the interview process, please let us know at people@mcgovern.org.
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\nThe Head of People Operations reports to the VP, People and Culture, and leads several critical pillars of the P&C function: manager capability, performance culture, organizational and manager learning, technical and non-technical recruiting, employee relations, HR compliance, and benefits.
\nThis is a role for someone who excels at both strategic people conversations and being in the weeds of an employee relations matter. You bring sound judgment to hard situations. You build teams and systems that hold up over time. You care about the mission, and that care shows up in how you treat your colleagues every day.
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\nStarting salaries are typically placed in the lower half of the range. Final offers are determined by the scope of the position, the candidate's relevant experience, and internal equity.
\nThe attributes listed above represent our current thinking for the role. You can be a great candidate even if you don't fit everything we've described below. You can also have important skills we haven't thought of. If that's you - even if you’re on the fence - we encourage you to apply and tell us about yourself!
\nIt is important to us that our hiring process is accessible to everyone. If you require accommodations to participate in the interview process, please let us know when you apply.
","categories":{"commitment":"Full-time","department":"Strategy and Innovation","location":"Remote","team":"Products & Services","allLocations":["Remote"]},"createdAt":1776728631457,"descriptionPlain":"About Us:\nThe Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) is a philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence and data science solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all. PJMF works in partnership with public, private, and social institutions to drive progress on our most pressing challenges, including digital health, climate change, broad digital access, and data maturity in the social sector.\nWhat We’re Building:\nPJMF is building a suite of AI-enabled tools that will serve as the intelligence layer for modern philanthropy. Every year, foundations and corporate funders deploy hundreds of billions of dollars toward humanity's most pressing challenges—yet they do so using systems designed for compliance, not insight. Program officers spend more time reformatting documents and reconciling spreadsheets than learning from their portfolios or deepening relationships with grant partners.\n \nGrant Guardian, PJMF’s existing product, already helps hundreds of foundations use AI to streamline their financial due diligence workflows. The next step is a product that will place AI at the center of strategic philanthropy by automatically distilling grant applications into actionable insights, identifying patterns across thousands of grants, generating board materials in minutes, and lowering barriers for historically excluded organizations through features like proposal feedback and translation.\nAbout the role:\nWe are seeking a self-driven Junior DevOps Engineer to contribute to the development, deployment, and maintenance of data and AI products that support positive social impact around the world. You will support the maintenance of the cloud infrastructure that powers our AI and data products, while contributing to the full-stack applications built on top of it. You will also work directly with nonprofit partners, helping them understand and adopt the tools we build. \nWe are a small team. We work in short cycles and collaborate across disciplines. In this role, you will contribute directly to cloud-based applications that bring AI outputs into real use. \nThis is an early-career, growth-oriented DevOps role designed for engineers who are building foundational experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems. The role operates under the guidance of senior engineers and progressively assumes greater responsibility as skills and confidence develop. \n","description":"About Us:
The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) is a philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence and data science solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all. PJMF works in partnership with public, private, and social institutions to drive progress on our most pressing challenges, including digital health, climate change, broad digital access, and data maturity in the social sector.
What We’re Building:
PJMF is building a suite of AI-enabled tools that will serve as the intelligence layer for modern philanthropy. Every year, foundations and corporate funders deploy hundreds of billions of dollars toward humanity's most pressing challenges—yet they do so using systems designed for compliance, not insight. Program officers spend more time reformatting documents and reconciling spreadsheets than learning from their portfolios or deepening relationships with grant partners.
Grant Guardian, PJMF’s existing product, already helps hundreds of foundations use AI to streamline their financial due diligence workflows. The next step is a product that will place AI at the center of strategic philanthropy by automatically distilling grant applications into actionable insights, identifying patterns across thousands of grants, generating board materials in minutes, and lowering barriers for historically excluded organizations through features like proposal feedback and translation.
About the role:
We are seeking a self-driven Junior DevOps Engineer to contribute to the development, deployment, and maintenance of data and AI products that support positive social impact around the world. You will support the maintenance of the cloud infrastructure that powers our AI and data products, while contributing to the full-stack applications built on top of it. You will also work directly with nonprofit partners, helping them understand and adopt the tools we build.
We are a small team. We work in short cycles and collaborate across disciplines. In this role, you will contribute directly to cloud-based applications that bring AI outputs into real use.
\nThis is an early-career, growth-oriented DevOps role designed for engineers who are building foundational experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems. The role operates under the guidance of senior engineers and progressively assumes greater responsibility as skills and confidence develop.
\nCloud infrastructure and operations. Maintain and improve our AWS environments using infrastructure-as-code. This includes VPC configuration, IAM policies, secrets management, logging, backups, and cost controls.
\nApplication development. Write frontend and backend production code for shared platform services and internal tooling. Our stack includes primarily Go, Python, JavaScript, and React.
\nCI/CD and automation. Contribute to deployment pipelines using GitHub Actions. Automate testing, container builds, releases, and operational workflows like environment provisioning and dependency updates.
\nContainerization and platform support. Support our Docker-based deployment platform, including build workflows, deployment strategies, and autoscaling.
\nObservability and incident response. Implement and maintain metrics, centralized logging, alerting, and dashboards. Participate in incident response under the direction of senior engineers.
\nDeveloper experience. Build and maintain internal documentation, service templates, and local development tooling that help the team move faster and debug with confidence.
\nPartner collaboration. Work directly with nonprofit partners to support their adoption of our tools. You will translate technical concepts clearly, listen to how partners experience what we build, and bring that feedback into the product cycle. This is recurring, meaningful work, not occasional.
\nParticipate in stretch assignments and special projects in service of our broader strategic priorities.
\nObservability experience: Exposure to monitoring, logging, and alerting systems and participating in incident response or on-call rotations.
\nSystems Fundamentals: Basic understanding of networking, system reliability, and security fundamentals.
\nSecurity Fundamentals: Awareness of basic security best practices and an interest in learning how infrastructure security is maintained.
\nCloud cost & sustainability: Interest in learning how teams monitor infrastructure costs and system efficiency.
\nWe anticipate the starting salary range for this role to be $70,000 - $106,000. Beyond career-defining work, we offer a comprehensive benefits package to support you along the way:
\n\nHealth Coverage – We offer Foundation-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their spouses or domestic partners and dependents. In addition, we provide HSA/FSA plans, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability coverage.
\nLong-term Rewards – Our 401(k) retirement plan includes generous matching of up to 6% of annual pay, plus an additional discretionary match at the end of the year.
\nFlexible PTO – We offer unlimited paid time off, which allows team members to take the time they need for vacation or illness so they can return to work able to contribute fully to our mission. In addition, the Foundation recognizes 11 paid national holidays per year and may also announce closure for local, regional, or state holidays.
\nRemote Work Environment - Employees work 100% remotely–but not alone–alongside a community of mature, socially minded professionals. We provide a monthly work support stipend to offset the costs of phone, internet, or co-working space.
\nWellness Support – In addition to our health coverage, we offer access to Ginger, Gympass, Headspace, and SmartSpend Plus, along with financial well-being service providers.
\nParental Leave – We provide up to 6 months of gender-neutral paid leave for parents and caregivers when they have a new addition to their families.
\nLearning Reimbursements – We encourage team members to explore development opportunities such as peer learning, internal training, and external activities.
\nPhilanthropic Gift Matching – We support our team members' personal investments in social impact by matching eligible charitable donations 1:1 up to $1,000 per calendar year.
\nAbout Us:
The Patrick J. McGovern Foundation (PJMF) is a philanthropic organization dedicated to advancing artificial intelligence and data science solutions to create a thriving, equitable, and sustainable future for all. PJMF works in partnership with public, private, and social institutions to drive progress on our most pressing challenges, including digital health, climate change, broad digital access, and data maturity in the social sector.
What We’re Building:
PJMF is building a suite of AI-enabled tools that will serve as the intelligence layer for modern philanthropy. Every year, foundations and corporate funders deploy hundreds of billions of dollars toward humanity's most pressing challenges—yet they do so using systems designed for compliance, not insight. Program officers spend more time reformatting documents and reconciling spreadsheets than learning from their portfolios or deepening relationships with grant partners.
Grant Guardian, PJMF’s existing product, already helps hundreds of foundations use AI to streamline their financial due diligence workflows. The next step is a product that will place AI at the center of strategic philanthropy by automatically distilling grant applications into actionable insights, identifying patterns across thousands of grants, generating board materials in minutes, and lowering barriers for historically excluded organizations through features like proposal feedback and translation.
About the role:
We are seeking a self-driven Junior DevOps Engineer to contribute to the development, deployment, and maintenance of data and AI products that support positive social impact around the world. You will support the maintenance of the cloud infrastructure that powers our AI and data products, while contributing to the full-stack applications built on top of it. You will also work directly with nonprofit partners, helping them understand and adopt the tools we build.
We are a small team. We work in short cycles and collaborate across disciplines. In this role, you will contribute directly to cloud-based applications that bring AI outputs into real use.
\nThis is an early-career, growth-oriented DevOps role designed for engineers who are building foundational experience in cloud infrastructure, automation, and deployment systems. The role operates under the guidance of senior engineers and progressively assumes greater responsibility as skills and confidence develop.
\n