The Vice President, People is a strategic partner and advisor to the C-suite and the Senior Leadership Team. This role owns the people and organizational agenda at the enterprise level, ensuring leadership, structure, and culture evolve in lockstep with the company’s growth and increasing complexity. Execution is driven through a senior team of Director+ leaders; the VP operates at the system, decision, and advisory level.
Executive Scope & Accountability
Enterprise Leadership & Advisory
- Serve as a trusted advisor to the C-suite and executive leadership team on organizational strategy, leadership effectiveness, succession, and workforce tradeoffs.
- Bring an enterprise-wide perspective to business decisions, anticipating organizational and cultural implications before they surface.
- Use data and organizational insight to guide how the company evolves its ways of working, helping leaders embed new technologies in a way that improves effectiveness and scale.
- Partner with the CLO/CAO on board matters as needed.
Organizational Strategy & Design
- Shape and evolve the company’s operating and leadership models to support scale, speed, and accountability.
- Lead executive-level decisions on org design, role clarity, and leadership structure across functions and regions, with culture as a foundational driver.
- Ensure the organization is built for both near-term execution and long-term durability.
Leadership, Culture & Performance
- Set the standard for leadership expectations, performance, and accountability across the company.
- Own the evolution of company culture, ensuring values are reinforced through leadership behavior, incentives, and decision-making.
- Coach and challenge senior leaders directly, addressing leadership gaps and performance issues with clarity and judgment.
People Strategy & Governance
- Own the enterprise people strategy, ensuring alignment with business objectives, financial plans, and growth trajectory.
- Provide strategic oversight across People Operations, HRBPs, and Recruiting, with Directors accountable for execution.
- Establish clear decision frameworks for people-related tradeoffs, ensuring consistency and scalability.
Transformation & Change Leadership
- Lead and manage the people dimension of major organizational shifts, including growth phases, re-orgs, leadership transitions, and evolving ways of working.
- Bring structure, calm, and decisiveness to moments of ambiguity or tension.
What Success Looks Like:
- The organization scales in line with business needs without sacrificing clarity, performance or cultural cohesion.
- Leadership accountability and effectiveness continues to improve
- Organizational decisions are proactive, principled, and aligned to long-term business outcomes.
- The People function is viewed as a valued advisor, partner organization
We’re looking for candidates who have:
- Senior executive people leader with experience operating alongside C-suite leaders in complex, high-growth environments.
- Proven track record shaping org design, leadership models, and culture at scale.
- Strong business judgment with the ability to connect people strategy to enterprise outcomes.
- Direct, credible communicator with the confidence to influence and challenge senior leaders.
- Comfortable operating in ambiguity with high stakes and limited precedent.
About Chainalysis
Blockchain technology is powering a growing wave of innovation. Businesses and governments around the world are using blockchains to make banking more efficient, connect with their customers, and investigate criminal cases. As adoption of blockchain technology grows, more and more organizations seek access to all this ecosystem has to offer. That’s where Chainalysis comes in. We provide complete knowledge of what’s happening on blockchains through our data, services, and solutions. With Chainalysis, organizations can navigate blockchains safely and with confidence.
You belong here.
At Chainalysis, we believe that diversity of experience and thought makes us stronger. With both customers and employees around the world, we are committed to ensuring our team reflects the unique communities around us. We’re ensuring we keep learning by committing to continually revisit and reevaluate our diversity culture.
We encourage applicants across any race, ethnicity, gender/gender expression, age, spirituality, ability, experience and more. If you need any accommodations to make our interview process more accessible to you due to a disability, don't hesitate to let us know. You can learn more here. We can’t wait to meet you.
Compensation Range: $325K - $375K
