<h3 style="">Role Description</h3>The opportunityKlir is entering its next phase of growth. As we scale, we are investing in stronger leadership, clearer ways of working and a high performance culture that supports both delivery and sustainability.We are hiring a Director of People to act as a true partner to the leadership team. This role is about building the systems, standards and practices that help teams do their best work as Klir grows.This is a senior individual contributor role with full autonomy and executive trust. The title is Director, but the impact and scope are company wide.We are open to part time applicants for the right candidate.<h3 style="">Responsibilities:</h3><h3 style="">Building a high performance people system.</h3><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Review, redesign and run an improved performance management processes aligned to company goals.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Support managers to set expectations, give feedback and lead effectively.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Ensure accountability is fair, consistent and transparent.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Partner with leadership on performance decisions as the company scales.</li></ul><h3 style="">Leading our hybrid working model</h3><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Own and implement Klir’s hybrid working approach including regular in person collaboration</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Help teams transition smoothly with clarity and consistency</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Ensure hybrid work supports productivity, connection and execution</li></ul><h3 style="">Manager capability and career development</h3><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Raise the bar on what good management looks like at Klir by ensuring one aligned system for management in Klir with effective training and alignment. </li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Introduce simple, credible career paths and progression frameworks</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Align growth, compensation and development with impact and results</li></ul><h3 style="">Workforce planning and people operations</h3><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Partner with Finance and leadership on headcount planning</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Own and lead end-to-end recruitment, partnering with leaders to hire high-quality talent efficiently as the company scale</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Ensure policies and practices scale across Ireland, Canada and the US</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Balance compliance with pragmatism across jurisdictions</li></ul><h3 style="">Trusted partner to leadership</h3><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Act as a calm, objective advisor to the C level.</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Help leadership make clear people decisions and execute them well</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Build trust across the organisation through consistency and fairness</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Actively shape and reinforce Klir’s culture by translating values into clear expectations and behaviours as the organisation grows.</li></ul><h3 style="">Building culture, community and engagement</h3><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Intentionally build a cooperative, high-trust culture where teams collaborate effectively across functions and geographies</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Strengthen employees’ sense of belonging and connection as the organisation scales</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Create mechanisms to listen to employee feedback and turn insights into action</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Embed Klir’s values into everyday behaviours, rituals and ways of working</li></ul><h3 style="">What success looks like?</h3>Within 6 to 12 months:<ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Managers are confident and consistent in how they lead</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Team mates are clear in their expectations and are supported to achieve their goals by their managers. </li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Hybrid working is established and working well to drive personal health and well being through collaboration as well as effective attainment of company objectives. </li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Performance conversations are normal, timely and constructive</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">The organisation feels focused, fair and well run</li></ul><h3 style="">Requirements (Sound like you?)</h3><h3 style="">Required experience</h3><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Senior People or HR leadership experience in a scaling technology company</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Strong judgement and comfort operating in a commercial environment</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Experience supporting leaders through growth and change</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Ability to operate autonomously with executive trust in a fast changing environment.</li></ul><h3 style="">Strongly preferred</h3><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Experience working across Ireland, Canada and the US</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Background in hybrid or distributed teams</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Experience partnering closely with founder led leadership teams</li></ul><h3 style="">Personal attributes</h3><ul style=""><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Practical, grounded and calm</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Fair and empathetic without losing standards</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Comfortable making and supporting difficult decisions</li><li style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12pt;margin:3px 0px;letter-spacing:0.25px;line-height:1.6;">Values clarity, trust and accountability</li></ul><h2 style="">Our Commitment To You</h2>Meaningful ImpactYour work directly supports the people responsible for delivering safe drinking water and managing wastewater for millions of people.Hybrid FlexibilityWork in a hybrid model based in Dublin, balancing in-person collaboration with focused remote work.Strong Team CultureWe value honesty, accountability, and collaboration. We take our mission seriously while supporting one another and enjoying the work.Growth &amp; DevelopmentYou’ll design and evolve the company’s people strategy, with the opportunity to broaden your impact across leadership, culture, and organizational effectiveness over time.Our ValuesHonesty. Audacity. Unity. These guide how we work with customers and with each other.Commitment to Your GrowthYou’ll work with leaders dedicated to coaching, transparency, and helping you become your best professional self.

Klir's integrated water regulatory solution helps the world's water utilities make water safer.
The Klir platform gathers, monitors and analyses regulatory compliance data, all in one easy-to-use web-based application. With it, water utilities are better equipped to quantify and mitigate the true risks to the environment and human health. It empowers them to improve their performance in addressing and managing enforcement actions issued by the Regulator and to develop more focused asset investment programmes.
By providing them with a powerful way to manage all their regulatory compliance missions in one place, Klir is the ideal solution for water regulations and compliance that helps utilities capture widespread efficiency gains, while ultimately protecting the environment.

Director of People

<h3>Role Description</h3>The opportunityKlir is entering its next phase of growth. As we scale, we are investing in stronger leadership, clearer ways of working and a high performance culture that supports both delivery and sustainability.We are hiring a Director of People to act as a true partner to the leadership team. This role is about building the systems, standards and practices that help teams do their best work as Klir grows.This is a senior individual contributor role with full autonomy and executive trust. The title is Director, but the impact and scope are company wide.We are open to part time applicants for the right candidate.<h3>Responsibilities:</h3><h3>Building a high performance people system.</h3><ul><li>Review, redesign and run an improved performance management processes aligned to company goals.</li><li>Support managers to set expectations, give feedback and lead effectively.</li><li>Ensure accountability is fair, consistent and transparent.</li><li>Partner with leadership on performance decisions as the company scales.</li></ul><h3>Leading our hybrid working model</h3><ul><li>Own and implement Klir’s hybrid working approach including regular in person collaboration</li><li>Help teams transition smoothly with clarity and consistency</li><li>Ensure hybrid work supports productivity, connection and execution</li></ul><h3>Manager capability and career development</h3><ul><li>Raise the bar on what good management looks like at Klir by ensuring one aligned system for management in Klir with effective training and alignment.&nbsp;</li><li>Introduce simple, credible career paths and progression frameworks</li><li>Align growth, compensation and development with impact and results</li></ul><h3>Workforce planning and people operations</h3><ul><li>Partner with Finance and leadership on headcount planning</li><li>Own and lead end-to-end recruitment, partnering with leaders to hire high-quality talent efficiently as the company scale</li><li>Ensure policies and practices scale across Ireland, Canada and the US</li><li>Balance compliance with pragmatism across jurisdictions</li></ul><h3>Trusted partner to leadership</h3><ul><li>Act as a calm, objective advisor to the C level.</li><li>Help leadership make clear people decisions and execute them well</li><li>Build trust across the organisation through consistency and fairness</li><li>Actively shape and reinforce Klir’s culture by translating values into clear expectations and behaviours as the organisation grows.</li></ul><h3>Building culture, community and engagement</h3><ul><li>Intentionally build a cooperative, high-trust culture where teams collaborate effectively across functions and geographies</li><li>Strengthen employees’ sense of belonging and connection as the organisation scales</li><li>Create mechanisms to listen to employee feedback and turn insights into action</li><li>Embed Klir’s values into everyday behaviours, rituals and ways of working</li></ul><h3>What success looks like?</h3>Within 6 to 12 months:<ul><li>Managers are confident and consistent in how they lead</li><li>Team mates are clear in their expectations and are supported to achieve their goals by their managers.&nbsp;</li><li>Hybrid working is established and working well to drive personal health and well being through collaboration as well as effective attainment of company objectives.&nbsp;</li><li>Performance conversations are normal, timely and constructive</li><li>The organisation feels focused, fair and well run</li></ul><h3>Requirements (Sound like you?)</h3><h3>Required experience</h3><ul><li>Senior People or HR leadership experience in a scaling technology company</li><li>Strong judgement and comfort operating in a commercial environment</li><li>Experience supporting leaders through growth and change</li><li>Ability to operate autonomously with executive trust in a fast changing environment.</li></ul><h3>Strongly preferred</h3><ul><li>Experience working across Ireland, Canada and the US</li><li>Background in hybrid or distributed teams</li><li>Experience partnering closely with founder led leadership teams</li></ul><h3>Personal attributes</h3><ul><li>Practical, grounded and calm</li><li>Fair and empathetic without losing standards</li><li>Comfortable making and supporting difficult decisions</li><li>Values clarity, trust and accountability</li></ul><h2>Our Commitment To You</h2>Meaningful ImpactYour work directly supports the people responsible for delivering safe drinking water and managing wastewater for millions of people.Hybrid FlexibilityWork in a hybrid model based in Dublin, balancing in-person collaboration with focused remote work.Strong Team CultureWe value honesty, accountability, and collaboration. We take our mission seriously while supporting one another and enjoying the work.Growth &amp; DevelopmentYou’ll design and evolve the company’s people strategy, with the opportunity to broaden your impact across leadership, culture, and organizational effectiveness over time.Our ValuesHonesty. Audacity. Unity. These guide how we work with customers and with each other.Commitment to Your GrowthYou’ll work with leaders dedicated to coaching, transparency, and helping you become your best professional self.

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