People & Culture Manager
Location: CA, ON, Toronto
Department: People & Culture
Employment type: Full-time
Required experience: Mid-Senior level
Industry: Computer Software
Function: Human Resources
Company profile: Vend is looking for some awesome new talent to come join us. You'll be working in an awesome team doing awesome things, and generally being awesome.Learn about us on our blog, or meet the team on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedInAwesome SpaceOur brand new Auckland office space is located on Nuffield Street in Newmarket, surrounded by our customers and the industry we love. It is huge, open, and shiny new with great meeting room spaces, casual working environments and plenty of space to host awesome events. We don't do cubicles, just plenty of space, whiteboards and meetings rooms. We also have a great cafe/retail space with our very own Front of House Manager taking care of our visitors and fellow Venders. Like Auckland our Melbourne office is surrounded by retail. It's a great wee space equipped with tiny houses and some awesome cardboard cutout animals.Our Toronto office is located right in the heart of downtown retail district. Like Melbourne and Auckland there's a great vibe with great coffee, boutique stores and some of the greatest restaurants in the city. Our SoMa office in San Francisco is located in the middle of the SF tech scene, just a (Biz) stone's throw from Twitter.The EnvironmentWe want you to be at the top of your game. You can wear whatever clothing you like, start work late in the morning, take breaks whenever you want and generally work the way you want to work. Who we're looking forVend is looking for people to push the boundaries. We are a hard working professional team with a wicked sense of humour, and we are looking for people who thrive in a collaborative open environment. We want passionate, hard working, talented individuals that want to lead in their field.
Description: First things first….. If you don’t know already know, Vend is a globally successful, award winning web based SaaS point of sale for retail. We’re chucking out crusty old cash registers and replacing them with iPads, touch screens and beautiful software.  We’re shaking things up and pushing out innovations, therefore finding - and meeting a huge demand for our services all over the world. We’re absolute lovers of retail, all of our amazing offices are surrounded by retail and day to day you will have the chance to work with the most talented humans and dogs all over the world.  As a People & Culture Manager at Vend you will play a huge role in helping us scale to extreme new heights by helping to support our people and culture in our Toronto office.HR at Vend isn’t your typical HR role. We think HR is a dirty word and one that doesn’t really fit into her our high performing and amazing culture. At Vend, we need someone who knows how to make a lemon cake out of a single lemon. On that note, we love cake… so baking skills would be A+!  Back to the dirty word, so really, someone who can translate the boring old HR processes and thinking and step forward 2 decades into the world of technology & people and how the world just works today.The emphasis we put on giving all of our candidates an amazing experience regardless of their success with us, the technology and tools we use, the level of importance we put on our employer brand and the amount of innovation and creativity we put into every experience is what sets us apart from everyone else.Vend is as successful as it is because of it’s people and the culture we have created. We think culture eats strategy for breakfast (okay, I’ll stop with the food metaphors). It’s our job in the People and Culture team to ensure our culture stays alive and continues to grow as we grow while continuously kicking ass with high performance!You will need to live and breathe our culture and values in everything we do and accomplish as a team. You’ll be our feet, arms and fingers for our Toronto office. The majority of the People and Culture team is based in Auckland, New Zealand (you know that country that is next to Sweden) - so the ability to work somewhat remotely from your core team is crucial. We also want someone who will wake up every morning feeling excited about the day that you have ahead.  You will be used to working at extreme pace and you will be flexible but most of all you are happiest when helping people and you want to make an impact with the work you do.We don’t mind if you’ve only have four to five or fifteen to twenty years of People experience, that’s a-okay with us. We want overwhelming enthusiasm and ambition and someone who knows how to have fun and is okay with our sometimes inappropriate jokes.
Requirements: To be successful in this role at Vend you will need to;First things first, be prepared to tell us how you have taken two decades boring old HR stuff and translated them into practical and modern based People & Culture thinking and tools.Bring excitement and passion to what you do everyday!Familiar and comfortable dealing with People Relations and bring a strong knowledge of Canadian employment legislation (norms, trends and what’s coming).Have managed or successfully dealt with generalist selection of People & Culture functions; such as benefits, compensation, safety, learning/development, recruiting.Get a kick out of doing hard work and don’t mind writing strategy to placing a cake order for someone’s birthday.Have a natural affinity with all things technology. We use a suite of tools to help us do our job so you’ll need to confident and excited about using lots of awesome and exciting technologies. You are proud of your Linkedin Profile.A super fine tuned bullshit radar / spidey senseBe ridiculously organised. You’re going to be busy so excellent time management skills are essential.Be great at working as a member of a super tight People & Culture team who work in a completely transparent way where everything we do is visible.  Be willing to travel to the USA and that country that is next to Sweden.
Benefits: What can you expect from us?We have an open culture where we openly share our results and where your input is truly valued.We have a lot of fun at work!  Like playing pool whenever you want, getting a Dia de los Muertos makeover, zoning out on the couches listening to music or raiding the snack cupboard (FYI frozen marshmallows are the latest craze at Vend - seriously, try them!).Work-life blend.  We know you have a life outside of work. We know you probably have little side projects or businesses too. This is valued and at Vend you can have a life inside work too.Utilise all your talents.  Not just the ones written in your job description.We welcome all of you at work.  We don’t want you to leave your personality at the door.So, what’s next? Get in touch, apply now, hit that button, get it done and come have a chat with us about how you can work at Vend. We can’t wait to hear from you.
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