Monumental
Construction
HeadofPerformance
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“Head of Performance at Monumental. Skills: Attracting talent, Developing talent, Stretching talent, Owning conditions for high performance, Hiring, Developing people, Giving feedback, Running performance and equity cycles, Keeping the bar high. Own how we attract, develop, and stretch our team. Own the conditions for high performance”
What You'll Achieve.
Monumental scales from ~100 to several hundred over the next few years; People doing the best work of their careers; Junior engineer is being stretched; Exceptional contribution doesn’t wait six months to be recognised; Person leaves with a clear picture of what good looks like; Company grows past 100
Industry & Context.
Solving the problem of on-site construction; Solving difficult problems
Work in the Netherlands and the UK
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
Experience building and managing high-performing teams, Suspicious of policy as a default mode, Genuinely curious about people’s work, An instinct to connect people across departments, High personal intensity, Can run a 1:1 that someone walks out of energised, Can also have the harder conversations, kindly, without flinching, Comfortable in a technical environment, Introduce structure without killing startup feel, Can read the legal framework we operate in - bad-leaver events, long-term sick leave, and how contracts and offboarding work in the Dutch context, A Day 1 culture fit, with minimal steering needed
Nice to Have
Ideally founded a company, or operated very close to founders in a small-to-mid-stage startup, Taken a team from 0 to 1 and developed individual contributors into leaders, Comfortable with the people side of physical industries, Fluent in Dutch
What You'll Do.
Own the conditions for high performance
Design and run performance cycles
Support people who are struggling
Develop equity and compensation philosophy
Senior hiring partnership
Scale the people experience
including all future hires
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Work directly with our founders; Connect people across departments; Work with founders on senior hires
Communication Scope
Energising 1:1s; Direct, timely feedback; Harder conversations, kindly
Full Job Description
Monumental http://monumental.co/ is automating on-site construction with cutting-edge robotics and software. Our mission is to redefine construction through software and robots. We aim for a future where beautiful, bespoke buildings are built within a single day with minimal labor. We’re a growing team (about 100 team members) of mostly engineers and technicians, coming from companies like Palantir, Qualcomm, Dyson, Shopify, Tesla, Meta and 1X. It’s still the early days of building the company, and this is a unique opportunity to be an early employee in a high-growth, high-ambition startup environment. From Day 1, you’ll be able to work with an experienced founding team backed by top-tier investors. You can read more on why we believe you should spend your time working on construction https://www.monumental.co/why, and learn more about our vision https://www.monumental.co/our-vision and company https://www.monumental.co/about. You might also enjoy seeing this video by Andreas Klinger of what our office environment looks like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOo8n19XEns. About You and This Role We’re hiring our first Head of Performance - the person who’ll own how we attract, develop, and stretch our team as Monumental scales from ~100 to several hundred over the next few years. Monumental is a unique company in that we’re solving the problem of on-site construction with a vertically integrated offering. We’re a hard tech company doing real R&D, financed through venture funding. We manufacture our hardware in-house, run a fully equipped workshop, manage a complex supply chain, and deploy masonry robots to construction sites across the Netherlands and the UK. You’ll own the conditions for high performance at Monumental: who we hire, how we develop them, how we give feedback, how we run performance and equity cycles, and how we keep the bar high as the company grows. We've covered our day-to-day people operations - your job sits one layer above. You’ll lead our People t
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