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Head of HR

Launch Potato

Location: USA Advertised pay: USD 170,000–190,000 / yearly Work arrangement: Region-restricted remote Employment: Full Time Posted: October 25, 2026 Freshness: Very fresh Source check: Observed in the past 3 days
Disclosure4 of 5 core facts statedReview uncertainties
Last source observationObserved in the past 3 daysObservation is not employer confirmation.
Application destinationjobicy.comReview the application route and source evidence in the full report below.

Before relying on the listing: Confirm Application closing time with the employer or source. See verification questions

Executive opportunity brief

The decision in one screen

A compact evidence-first read of compensation, flexibility, mobility and what still needs verification. No universal quality score is used.

Compensation positionAbove the current median378 current same-currency observations
Work flexibilityRegion-restricted remoteBased only on stated location/work-arrangement evidence.
Decision evidence4 of 5 core facts knownThis listing states more core decision facts than the median role in the current sample.
Mobility evidenceSponsorship not establishedUnknown evidence is not treated as unavailable.
Current alternatives1624 current same-family rolesCurrent HPJ inventory, not the whole labor market.
Negotiation readinessNegotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, current same-currency market context, strong decision evidence.Use the private Offer & Negotiation Lab below if an offer arrives.

Fast read

Opportunity DNA

The available details do not point to a single standout advantage yet. The clearest issue to weigh is location rules could change the fit.

PayRange available

Current comparable position is around the 60th percentile.

FlexibilityLocation limits visible

Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.

Entry pathRequirements unclear

The listing does not make the minimum education or experience threshold clear enough yet.

MobilityNot established

Sponsorship and relocation support are not clear from the current listing.

ApplicationSome process detail

Part of the application route can be assessed, but the full external process may contain additional steps.

TraceabilityCurrent source traceable

At least one recent enabled source can still renew this vacancy.

This fingerprint summarizes what is clear, constrained or still unanswered in the current listing. It is a reading aid, not an overall job score.

Decision evidence check

4 of 5 core facts stated

This checks whether the listing states the facts that commonly change an employment decision. It measures disclosure completeness, not whether the opportunity is good or bad.

Facts already stated

  • Compensation
  • Work arrangement
  • Location eligibility
  • Employment type

What to verify next

  • Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?

Unknown information is never converted into a negative score. The questions above exist to prevent missing evidence from being mistaken for a favorable term.

Decision levers

What could make or break the fit?

Reasons to look closer

Nothing stands out strongly enough yet to call a clear advantage. The role may still be attractive for reasons the listing does not spell out.

Trade-offs to weigh

  • Location rules could change the fit: Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.

Questions worth asking before you invest more time

  • Confirm whether a degree is actually required, preferred, or replaceable with equivalent experience.
  • Confirm the actual minimum experience requirement rather than assuming preferred background is mandatory.
  • Ask whether visa sponsorship is available before investing significant time in the application.

These questions come from details the listing leaves open. An unanswered point is not treated as a disadvantage.

Opportunity neighborhood

Keep your options open

These live roles sit close enough to this opportunity to make useful comparison points. Look across several employers before deciding what pay, flexibility or access trade-offs you are willing to accept.

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Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type

About 10% higher advertised midpoint

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USD 115,000–120,000 / year Worldwide remote 5/5 core facts

Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type

About 35% lower advertised midpoint

Vice President, Investor Transformation Group

Frost & Sullivan · Remote — Worldwide

Salary not disclosed Worldwide remote 4/5 core facts

Why it is nearby: Same seniority band · Similar work arrangement · Same employment type

This neighborhood is drawn from current inventory in the same broad occupation. Similarity is based on explicit listing facts; missing details do not count against a job.

Role market context

How much current choice is visible around this kind of work?

This compares the vacancy with current High Paid Job inventory in the broad Executive leadership roles family. It describes visible choice and disclosure, not future demand or career quality.

Current visible roles1,624

200 most recent current roles sampled for the disclosure measures below.

Employers represented150

Distinct employers in the bounded current sample, not an estimate of all employers hiring in the market.

Decision-ready disclosure33%

Current sampled roles stating at least four of the five Core Decision Facts.

Compensation stated40%

Requires a numeric amount, explicit ISO currency and supported pay period.

Work arrangement stated82%

Listings with explicit enough remote, hybrid or on-site evidence to classify.

Stated closing time36%

Missing deadline evidence remains unknown and is not interpreted as an open-ended application window.

Disclosure comparison: This listing states more core decision facts than the median role in the current sample. This listing: 4/5 · sample median: 3.0/5.

Currencies with explicit pay evidence in the sample: USD (73) · CAD (3) · GBP (2) · EUR (1). Raw amounts across different currencies are not compared.

This describes current visible High Paid Job inventory in the same broad occupation family. Percentages use a bounded recent sample and are not a forecast, a complete labor-market census or an employer-quality measure.

Constraint opportunity lab

What changes the size of the current opportunity pool?

Each line applies one stricter evidence-based constraint to the same bounded current role-family sample. It helps you see the trade-off in visible choice without deciding which trade-off is right for you.

Require explicit sponsorship or relocation support 0 / 200 0%

Counts only affirmative or possible sponsorship evidence, or relocation explicitly offered. Unknown is not treated as no.

Require worldwide remote evidence 32 / 200 16%

A much stricter subset: only listings with explicit worldwide-remote evidence remain.

Require at least four Core Decision Facts 66 / 200 33%

Shows the subset with enough stated evidence for a more informed first comparison.

Require a remote-listed arrangement 76 / 200 38%

Counts roles explicitly classified as worldwide remote, region-restricted remote or remote with restrictions still unclear.

Require usable compensation disclosure 79 / 200 40%

Requires amount, explicit ISO currency and a supported pay period. Missing pay evidence remains unknown.

Keep this advertised salary floor in the same currency 33 / 73 45%

Only same-currency opportunities with usable annualized pay enter this comparison. Other currencies are not converted or treated as lower.

Stay in the same stated country 64 / 100 64%

Uses only roles where a country is known. Roles without country evidence are excluded from this denominator.

Keep the same employment type 98 / 106 92%

Uses only roles with a stated employment type.

These are counterfactual filters over a bounded sample of current HPJ inventory in the same broad occupation family. They show how visible choice changes when one evidence-based constraint is applied; they do not tell you which constraint you should choose or predict hiring outcomes. The calculation uses the 200 most recent current roles from 1624 visible roles in this broad family.

Salary transparency context

Is pay disclosure typical for this kind of role?

This listing states usable structured compensation. About 40% of the bounded current role sample does the same.

This listingUsable pay stated

Compensation counts only when amount, ISO currency and supported pay period are all known.

Current same-role sample40%

Pay disclosure is limited in the current role sample.

Current employer pattern100%

This employer’s current visible listings disclose pay materially more often than the current same-role sample.

This compares salary-disclosure behavior in current visible listings. It does not compare raw salary amounts across currencies, infer undisclosed pay as zero, or rate employer quality.

Private offer & negotiation lab

Turn an offer into evidence, not guesswork

Enter an annual base offer and, if you want, your own target. HPJ compares only within one explicit currency and never chooses a target for you.

Advertised annualized payUSD 170,000–190,000 / yearListing evidence only.
Current comparable medianUSD 181,25773 current sampled roles
Current upper quartileUSD 202,500Current HPJ inventory context, not a salary recommendation.

Negotiation evidence available: advertised pay range, current same-currency market context, strong decision evidence.

Enter an annual base offer to compare it with explicit same-currency evidence. HPJ will not suggest a target for you.

Review the full package · 10 terms

Mark what is confirmed, what needs clarification and what you want to prioritize. These choices and notes stay in this browser.

Base payKnown

Usable advertised compensation is available.

Bonus / commissionMentioned

Variable compensation is mentioned; verify amount, formula, target and eligibility.

Equity / long-term incentivesMentioned

Equity or long-term incentive language is mentioned; verify grant type, vesting and valuation basis.

Retirement / pensionVerify

Retirement or pension benefits are mentioned; verify employer contribution and vesting.

Health benefitsVerify

Health-benefit language is mentioned; verify coverage, dependants and employee cost.

Paid leaveVerify

Paid-leave language is mentioned; verify the exact entitlement and carry-over rules.

Work arrangementKnown

A work-arrangement signal is available; verify schedule details before relying on it.

RelocationVerify

Relocation support not established

Visa / work authorizationVerify

Sponsorship not established

Review timingVerify

A review cycle is mentioned; verify timing and whether compensation can change at that review.

Questions worth taking into the offer conversation

  • What retirement or pension contribution does the employer provide?
  • What health coverage is included and what costs remain with the employee?
  • How much paid leave is provided and what are the carry-over or blackout rules?
  • If relocation is relevant, what expenses, timing and repayment conditions are covered?
  • What exact sponsorship or work-authorization conditions apply to this role?
  • When is the first performance and compensation review after joining?
  • Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?

Occupation intelligence

What broader career references connect to this role?

HPJ uses broad comparison families for current-market analysis. External taxonomy results are reference candidates for that broad family, not a declaration that this vacancy has been authoritatively classified into a specific occupation.

HPJ comparison familyExecutive leadership roles

European occupation references

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.

U.S. occupation references

This site incorporates information from O*NET Web Services by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration (USDOL/ETA). O*NET® is a trademark of USDOL/ETA.

Career reference research

Skills worth investigating

Official occupational context, paired with exact phrases visible in this vacancy. It is not a skills test or an applicant-fit score.

ESCO · European occupation

chief operating officer

Usually essential in this ESCO occupation
  • plan medium to long term objectives
  • negotiate with stakeholders
  • ensure lawful business operations
  • marketing management
  • make strategic business decisions
  • abide by business ethical code of conducts
  • establish collaborative relations
Context-dependent ESCO skills
  • interact with the board of directors
  • set organisational policies
  • define organisational standards
  • shape corporate culture
  • develop business plans

O*NET · U.S. occupation

Chief Executives

O*NET occupation skills
  • Judgment and Decision Making
  • Complex Problem Solving
  • Critical Thinking
  • Coordination
  • Management of Financial Resources
  • Management of Personnel Resources
  • Speaking
  • Systems Evaluation
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Plan how you might demonstrate or investigate occupational skills. These are broad-family reference examples, not confirmed vacancy requirements. Nothing you enter is sent to High Paid Job.

plan medium to long term objectivesESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
negotiate with stakeholdersESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
ensure lawful business operationsESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
marketing managementESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
make strategic business decisionsESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
abide by business ethical code of conductsESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
establish collaborative relationsESCO · Essential · Listing mention unknown
interact with the board of directorsESCO · Optional · Listing mention unknown
set organisational policiesESCO · Optional · Listing mention unknown
define organisational standardsESCO · Optional · Listing mention unknown
shape corporate cultureESCO · Optional · Listing mention unknown
develop business plansESCO · Optional · Listing mention unknown
Judgment and Decision MakingO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
Complex Problem SolvingO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
Critical ThinkingO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
CoordinationO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
Management of Financial ResourcesO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
Management of Personnel ResourcesO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
SpeakingO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown
Systems EvaluationO*NET · Skills · Listing mention unknown

Private to this browser. Up to 20 reference skills; not a qualification assessment or hiring prediction.

Useful next question: Which of these occupational reference skills does the hiring manager actually expect for this specific role, and what evidence would demonstrate them?

These skills belong to one reference occupation selected for HPJ’s broad career family, not a verified classification of this vacancy. Text overlap only means a phrase appears in the available listing text; it does not establish an employer requirement, your proficiency, or a qualification gap. A missing mention is unknown, not a deficit.

Skill bridge

What does this role connect to?

The available listing text does not contain enough recognized skill language for a useful skill bridge yet.

Skill signals come from explicit text mentions. A mention is not automatically a requirement, and absence from the current top-skill list does not make a skill rare or unimportant. The current career comparison draws on 120 sampled listings; 64 contain a recognized skill signal.

Application Decision Lab

Turn the listing into a preparation plan

Separate what the listing actually states from what you still need to prepare or verify. Your selections and short notes stay in this browser and are never submitted to High Paid Job.

Questions worth resolving before you rely on the opportunity

  • Application closing time: Is there a firm application deadline, a rolling review window or no stated closing date?
  • Work authorization / sponsorship: If sponsorship or work authorization matters to you, what exact immigration or employer-sponsorship conditions apply to this role?
  • Application process: What interview, assessment, portfolio, reference or screening stages are part of the hiring process?

Decision analysis

What the listing really tells you

Useful decision context

Head of HR at Launch Potato becomes easier to judge once compensation has enough depth for comparison, the location rules are clear enough to judge, and the visible application effort can be estimated are viewed together. Here is the current read from the information available.

Compensation has enough depth for comparison

The annualized midpoint sits near the 60th percentile within 378 comparable USD salary observations. Treat that as current advertised-pay context rather than a forecast of take-home or total compensation.

The location rules are clear enough to judge

The work-location pattern is “Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions”, with Remote Freedom at 62/100. The most important location constraint is geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region..

The visible application effort can be estimated

Provider-mediated application path. The external application may contain additional steps that are not visible from the listing itself.

The listing can be traced to a current source

The opportunity currently has 1 renewable source path across 1 source classes. Multiple independent paths can strengthen continuity, but they are not a substitute for checking the application destination.

How this analysis is assembled

The brief pulls together the parts of the vacancy that can be compared reliably today. Gaps in the listing remain visible instead of being filled with assumptions.

Analysis evidence coverage

How much analysis can the current evidence support?

100%Strong analysis evidence coverage
100%
Current-sample pay position60 / 100

Uses the explainable High Pay Score within the job’s current occupation/seniority/currency comparison sample.

Remote Freedom evidence62 / 100

Measures observable location flexibility and explicit restrictions; it does not determine whether remote work is personally desirable.

Salary evidence qualityHigh confidence · Focused salary range

The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.

Listing freshnessVery fresh

The listing was posted about 2 days ago.

Source provenance evidenceEstablished source evidence

At least one enabled source recently observed the vacancy. The source chain is traceable, but this is not independent employer verification.

There is no universal opportunity score because pay, flexibility and access matter differently to different people. Compare Jobs lets you weight the evidence around your own priorities.

Decision checklist

What is supported, uncertain or worth checking?

This checklist separates supported strengths, visible cautions and missing evidence. It is not an overall recommendation or guarantee that the job is suitable for you.

Supported strengths

No standout strength is supported strongly enough to list here. That is not a negative rating.

Visible cautions

  • Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.
  • This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.

Still unknown

  • Visa sponsorship is not established by the available listing data.

Qualifications & access

What qualifications are explicitly stated?

Entry-barrier evidence limited

EducationEducation requirement not established
Required experience evidenceExperience requirement not established
Explicit required barriers0
Explicit access signals0

Qualification signals come from explicit listing wording. Anything not mentioned remains unknown, so silence is never treated as proof that a degree, experience, licence or other requirement is unnecessary.

Pay vs. barriers

Pay and barrier context available

The current pay position can be viewed alongside the stated barriers, but the available detail does not support a stronger conclusion.

Current-sample pay position

Comparable disclosed-pay evidence places this job at about 60 / 100 within its current occupation/seniority sample.

Location-freedom constraints

1 explicit Remote Freedom restriction signal is present and is shown separately from qualification requirements.

Evidence gaps that could change this interpretation
  • Education requirement is not established.
  • Required prior-experience level is not established.

This section weighs pay context against clearly stated barriers without collapsing unlike requirements into one universal score. Degree, experience, licensing, clearance and location limits remain separate, and missing qualification details stay unknown.

Beyond the headline

Not enough evidence for a hidden-value finding

Potential hidden value appears only when several distinct non-pay advantages are actually supported. Missing requirements or benefits are never counted as positives.

Competitive current-sample pay position

The annualized salary midpoint is at or above about 60% of the current comparable disclosed-salary sample.

Still check: The current application path is provider-mediated rather than directly classified as an employer-authorized or official route.

Hidden Value is an experimental evidence summary, not an investment-style score or guarantee of employability. It only uses explicit current listing evidence and does not infer that an unmentioned qualification is unnecessary.

Explainable opportunity highlight

Why this opportunity stands out

These are supported signals from the current listing and comparison sample—not a guarantee that this is the best job for you.

Clear compensation evidence

The source provides structured salary information with a comparatively focused range, improving the usefulness of pay comparisons.

Fresh opportunity

The listing was posted about 2 days ago.

Compensation intelligence

How competitive is this pay?

60/100

Within the current market range

60%
Comparison familyExecutive leadership roles · Leadership
Comparable salaries378
Current-sample medianUSD 165,503
Middle 50% of sampleUSD 121,372–199,476
Position in sampleAt or above about 60%
Comparison geographySame country (US)
Pay positionAbove the current median

The annualized midpoint is above the current comparable median but remains within the sample’s middle-to-upper range.

Why this analysis?

  • This score reflects the current advertised-pay distribution for comparable active jobs in the same currency. It measures pay position, not overall job quality.
  • Salary confidence: High. The configured source supplied structured salary fields, a usable currency and a focused comparison value.
  • Range quality: Focused salary range.

Employer compensation communication

Pay transparency at Launch Potato

Very strong current pay transparency

This score uses the employer’s current visible listings and combines how often pay is disclosed with how useful those ranges are. Bonus, equity and benefit mentions are shown separately and do not raise the score.

100/100
100%
Salary disclosure100% · 10 of 10 sampled listings
Range qualityMostly focused or specific pay information
Bonus wording10 current listings
Equity wording10 current listings
Benefits wording10 current listings
Evidence strengthStronger

This pattern comes from the employer’s current visible vacancies. It describes hiring and pay transparency in those listings, not employee satisfaction or a permanent judgement of the employer.

Current employer intelligence

Launch Potato — current opportunity snapshot

Current opportunities visible10
Salary disclosure100%
Remote-policy evidence coverage100% · 10 of 10 sampled listings
Remote share of known arrangements100%
Worldwide-remote share0%
Known hiring countries1
Sponsorship evidence coverage0% · 0 of 10 sampled listings
Explicit sponsorship outcomes0 confirmed · 0 possible · 0 unavailable
Pattern sample10 of 10 · 100% coverage
Current role-family breadth4
Stated closing-date coverage0%
Relocation evidence coverage0% · 0 explicitly offered
Posted within 7 days50% of listings with a known posting date

Employer Evidence Profile

How often this employer’s current visible sampled vacancies state decision-critical information. These percentages describe evidence coverage, not employer quality.

Compensation100% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings with advertised compensation evidence.

Work arrangement100% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings whose work arrangement is clearer than unknown.

Location100% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings with a supported country signal.

Application timing0% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings with an explicit closing time.

Posting date100% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings with a usable posting date.

Sponsorship0% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings that explicitly indicate confirmed, possible or unavailable sponsorship evidence.

Relocation0% of sampled current listings

Current sampled listings with an explicit relocation signal.

Low coverage means the current visible listings state the information less often. It does not prove that the employer lacks the policy, benefit or support.

Common current occupation families: Data & AI (3) · Executive (3) · Marketing (1)

Visible seniority mix: Senior / lead (7) · Leadership (3)

Current employment-type mix: Full time (10)

Most visible hiring countries in this sample: United States (10)

Other current roles from this employer

Director of HR

USA

Leadership · Region-restricted remoteUSD 170,000–190,000 / year

These are other current vacancies visible from the same employer, not endorsements or evidence of future hiring plans.

Current disclosed salary medians by currency

  • USD 135,000 median · 10 disclosed salaries

Questions worth asking this employer

  • If work authorization matters to you, what sponsorship policy applies to this specific role and location?
  • If a move is required, is relocation assistance available for this position?
  • What is the expected application and interview timeline if the listing does not state a closing date?

These questions are prompted by missing or thin evidence in the employer’s current visible vacancies. Missing evidence is not treated as a negative judgement.

This employer snapshot uses the employer’s current visible listings. Remote and sponsorship rates use only vacancies with explicit evidence, while missing information stays unknown. Salary medians are shown separately by currency and need at least five disclosed salaries. Zero confirmed sponsorship means none was explicitly found in this sample, not that sponsorship is unavailable.

This snapshot describes the employer’s current visible vacancies—things such as pay disclosure and work arrangement. It is not an employee-satisfaction or hiring-quality rating, and different currencies stay separate.

Work-location intelligence

Remote Freedom

62/100

Remote with some uncertainty or restrictions

62%

Why this score?

  • The role is remote but the source identifies a country or regional restriction.

Location restrictions detected

  • Geographic eligibility is restricted to a country or region.

Remote Freedom measures observable location flexibility only. Unknown work-location information remains unscored. Timezone wording is penalized only when it appears restrictive; general collaboration across time zones is not treated as a restriction. A score does not guarantee legal work eligibility, payroll availability or visa sponsorship.

International applicant intelligence

Visa & relocation signals

Sponsorship status is shown only when the listing provides clear enough wording. Employer history or headquarters location is not used to guess an answer.

Visa sponsorshipSponsorship not established

The available listing details do not contain a clear enough sponsorship statement.

RelocationRelocation support not established

The available listing details do not contain a clear enough relocation statement.

Tradeoff check

What’s the catch?

These are visible conditions worth checking before treating the headline compensation as the whole story:

  • This is remote work with a geographic restriction, not a worldwide-remote vacancy.

Current alternatives

Better-paying alternatives

These current roles show a materially higher annualized salary midpoint in the same broad occupation and currency. Similar seniority, country, work arrangement, employment type and recency are preferred where possible; higher pay alone does not make an alternative a better fit.

About +33% midpoint

Vice President, Engineering

Submittable · USA

USD 220,000–260,000 / year Region-restricted remote

Why comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement

About +25% midpoint

VP of Engineering

Oddball · USA

USD 200,000–250,000 / year Region-restricted remote

Why comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement

About +25% midpoint

VP of Communications

TRM Labs · UK, USA

USD 195,000–255,000 / year Region-restricted remote

Why comparable: Same seniority band · Same country · Similar work-location arrangement

Alternatives are drawn from the current inventory rather than presented as application recommendations. A pay difference needs to be meaningful—about 3% or more at the midpoint—and different currencies are not compared.

Application-path intelligence

What can we see about the application process?

Provider-mediated application path

The current application path comes through a publisher or aggregator. The destination may still lead to an employer-authorized hiring system, but that is not clear enough to assume.

Current destination: jobicy.com · HTTPS

No additional required application step is clear in the available listing text. This does not mean the external application is one-click or friction-free.

Application effort is estimated from visible listing and source details. Optional steps are kept separate from mandatory ones, and the external form may contain additional requirements that are not visible here.

Application safety context

Application safety check

Basic application-safety context available

The current application destination has a basic transport-safety signal such as HTTPS. This does not verify the employer, vacancy, recruiter or application process.

Evidence checked: Source provenance · Application destination · Listing wording

Observable transport-safety signals

  • The available application destination uses HTTPS.
Before you share money or sensitive information
  • Confirm the vacancy on the employer’s official careers site when practical, especially if a recruiter contacts you outside the listed application path.
  • Check that recruiter email domains and application destinations are consistent with the employer or an identifiable recruiting provider.
  • Do not pay application, processing, training or equipment fees merely to be considered for a job.
  • Do not send cryptocurrency, gift cards, online-banking credentials or PINs as part of an application.
  • Treat unusually fast offers or interviews conducted only through informal messaging channels as reasons to verify the employer independently.

This is a limited safety screen, not employer verification and not a fraud determination. Never send money, cryptocurrency, passwords or sensitive banking credentials merely because a listing appears on a job platform.

Original listing details

The section below comes from the listing source. The decision sections above use the job’s structured pay, location, qualification, mobility and application details to give you additional context.

WHO ARE WE?

Launch Potato is the discovery and conversion company. We reach tens of millions of people every month through our brands, including FinanceBuzz, All About Cookies, and OnlyInYourState. We turn that attention into real outcomes for our partners, some of the world's leading companies.

Our mission: create predictable, high-value customer acquisition at scale by connecting discovery, intent, and performance across category-leading consumer brands in finance, travel, and entertainment.

We run profitable and bootstrapped, with a South Florida HQ and a remote-first team across 18 countries.

WHY JOIN US?

You own outcomes here, not tasks. We measure work by impact, not activity. The pace is real, and change is constant, so the people who do best turn change into opportunity instead of waiting for it to settle. Feedback runs direct and lands with respect. Ordinary people make themselves extraordinary at Launch Potato.

Base salary: $170,000 to $190,000. Plus an annual bonus paid as a flat amount rather than a percentage of base.

Launch Potato is about 200 people, profitable, and growing. The performance management system that got us here was built by our SVP of Talent, and he still runs it. That system becomes yours.

You're inheriting something that works. There's a levels framework, a rating scale, a calibration process, and managers who have been through several cycles. It got us to 200 people. Your job is deciding what carries forward and change-managing the rest, across an org that moves fast and adopts new processes.

We want someone who'll find the version that works and then hold it there while the company gets good at it.

If you want to own a function, make it extraordinary, and be judged on whether it actually got better, keep reading.

Why This Seat

  • Real ownership, immediately. Performance, total rewards, and compliance are yours to own rather than support. You'll defend a compensation number in front of a CFO who checks it.
  • An SVP who wants to hand this over. Not one who says that and then rewrites your deck. The explicit goal is that the HR function runs without him.
  • Executive reach by default. Calibration and leveling decisions live with the C-suite, and you present your own work. You won't spend year one convincing anyone that performance management matters.
  • Leverage is part of the mandate, not a side project. We are tech-first and AI-forward, which means we can run lean teams and do more with less. You'll push that further, build the tooling managers actually open, and make everything easier without taking substance out of it. Nobody will ask you to do it the slow way.

How This Team Is Led

From Kris Osborne, SVP of Talent.

I'll tell you what I want and what the constraints are and then get out of the way. I don't rewrite people's work. If I disagree with where you landed you'll hear it from me early, and if you still think you're right then push back, because I'd rather change my mind than have you go quiet and build something you don't believe in.

I ask before I decide. When something changes the shape of this team the people on it hear it from me first and they get a real say in it, not a heads up after it's done.

I care about the outcome and I'm not going to do your job for you. Bring me a problem and I'll work it with you, but I'm not going to take it off your plate and hand it back finished.

I'm hiring this seat because I want someone we can all learn from. Bring me a better answer than mine and I'll take it.

What You'll Bring

All required.

  • A full performance cycle you owned end to end, not supported. Owned more than once, at 150 people or more. Design, timeline, manager prep, calibration, rollout, retro.
  • Compensation and benefits you've owned. Band design, benchmarking methodology, benefits renewals, the annual comp cycle. You can defend a number to a CFO.
  • HR compliance as standing scope, not as a project. Multi-state registration, I-9, handbook, classification, postings. You've inherited a backlog and cleared it.
  • A people system that outlasted you. Built, adopted, and still recognizable two cycles later.
  • Leverage you built that people adopted. You've automated or rebuilt part of a people process so it ran faster, the quality held or improved, and the team actually used it. Adoption is the test here, the same way durability is the test above.
  • Experience taking a company our size to materially larger, on headcount or revenue, more than once. You know what breaks first at the next stage because you've watched it break.
  • Empowered your team to raise the bar. You have clear examples of coaching, mentoring, and growing a team that created extraordinary outcomes.

This is a player-coach seat. Managers here lead a team and deliver work personally, at every level.

Nice to Have

  • You have opinions about what performance management gets wrong, and specific examples of what you changed
  • You can tell a process problem from a manager-capability problem, and you fix the right one
  • You're the person who says the uncomfortable thing in a calibration room

What You'll Own

Performance management. The mid-year and annual cycles end to end: design, timeline, communication, execution. What the cycle needs to produce and what to cut. A timeline published early enough that managers plan around it. The retro after each one, and the judgment about when a change is warranted and when to leave it alone.

Total rewards. Band design and the benchmarking methodology behind it. Benefits renewals and the economics underneath them. The annual comp cycle, with leveling and pay kept connected.

Compliance. Multi-state registration, I-9, handbook, classification, postings. The current backlog, plus the escalation and coverage protocols that follow it.

Manager enablement. Preparing managers for real performance conversations, including the one where someone rated themselves higher than their manager did. The calibration process, including where two managers apply the same bar differently. Playbooks and self-service resources so a manager gets an answer without booking a meeting. Standing support for the roughly three dozen front-line managers who get it reactively today.

Leverage and tooling. Finding the parts of everything above that shouldn't be done by hand, and fixing them. Building what a manager will actually open rather than what looks good in a demo. Taking time out of the cycle while the conversations get better rather than thinner.

The team. An HR Business Partner and a Total Rewards and People Analytics lead. Both are strong at what they do and both have room to grow. You set their decision rights: where they decide, where they recommend, where it comes to you.

What Great Looks Like

In your first year:

  • The annual cycle ships on your timeline and you own it
  • Managers are calibrated before the cycle rather than corrected after it
  • Every person leaving a check-in has one clear thing to work on, and the conversation that produced it was a real one
  • The compliance backlog is closed and stays closed
  • The cycle costs managers less time than the year before, and the conversations are better rather than thinner
  • Your two reports hold more decision authority than they did at the start

This Isn't the Right Seat If

  • This would be your first Director-level people role
  • You lead with policy and risk. Compliance is required here and it isn't the center of the work
  • You want to redesign the cycle every year
  • You see tooling and automation as somebody else's job
  • You're looking for a recruiting role. Recruiting sits elsewhere in the function

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