Director of People Operations
SonarSource
People & HR, Operations
Austin, TX, USA
Posted on Mar 14, 2025
Sonar helps prevent code quality and code security issues from reaching production, amplifies developers' productivity in concert with AI assistants, and improves the developer experience with streamlined workflows. Sonar analyzes all code, regardless of who writes it — your internal team, genAI, or third parties — resulting in more secure, reliable, and maintainable applications. Rooted in the open source community, Sonar’s solutions support over 30 programming languages, frameworks, and infrastructure technologies. Today, Sonar is used by +7M developers and 400K organizations worldwide, including the DoD, Microsoft, NASA, MasterCard, Siemens, and T-Mobile.
We believe in developing great products that are supported by great internal teams and a strong culture. We are highly committed and obsessed with the company, users, each other, and our open-source community. We have high standards and hold each other accountable for acting with positivity, dedication, thoughtfulness, empathy, and passion daily.
We remain deliberate with our decisions with high clarity of intention. At the same time, we feel extreme urgency and move forward quickly.
And lastly, we are highly effective and operationally efficient. We operate collectively as One Team to accomplish our goals.
At Sonar, CODE is more than just an acronym; it's a mindset that defines daily operations.
The impact you will have:
The Director of People Operations will be key to Sonar's success.
Reporting to the CPO (Chief People Officer), the Director of People Operations will be responsible for driving strategy and scaling the operations and services that drive the efficiency and effectiveness of Sonar's Talent Acquisition and HR Operations functions. You will serve as a critical point of integration, strategic influence and collaboration with multiple cross-functional partners to deliver world-class talent strategies and operational experiences at global scale and expertise.
Why you should apply
- Take charge of Talent Acquisition operations globally and promote collaboration across the globe.
- Ensure excellence with prioritization, communication and execution of HR Operations programs and services.
- Continually define, refine and optimize service offerings with an emphasis on operational business insights, talent experiences and impact.
- Role model excellence by teaching, inspiring and operating as a hands-on leader, championing your team priorities and goals.
- Grow internal partnerships through proactive and credible influence and execution of strategies.
- Enable highly confident leadership decision-making through thoughtful, detailed and consultative analysis with clear and balanced business logic.
- Ensure strong financial and operational governance (Ex. Policies, process, procedures).
- Strong global knowledge of compliance, regulation and laws related to employment.
- A minimum of 5+ years at a Director level in an HR role.
- Organizational agility including strong interest in working in a global environment and leading a distributed team globally.
- Demonstrated experience and expertise in implementing scaled global talent and HR Operations strategies.
- Ability to engage and develop others with a player/coach mentality; a builder of high-performing teams.
- Track record of building credible and influential relationships with senior leaders.
- Proven ability to collaborate across multiple partners effectively including to solve unexpected or unanticipated challenges.
- A credible and influential, data-driven storyteller
- Excellent understanding of global talent and human resources programs, tools, services and standards of practice.
- Excellent people leadership and influencing skills.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills.
Why you will love it here
• Our culture and mission set us apart. We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
• Great people make a great company. We value people skills as much as technical skills and strive to keep things friendly while still being passionate leaders in our domains.
• We have a flexible work policy that includes a work-from-home day each week.
• We have a dynamic work culture that values respect and kindness and embraces the right to fail (and get right back up again!).
• We have a growth mindset. We love learning and believe continuous education is critical to our success. In an ever-changing industry, new skills are necessary, and we're happy to help our team acquire them.
• As the leader in our field, our products and services are as strong as our internal team members.
• We embrace transparency with regular meetings, cascading messages and updates on the growth and success of our organization.
Who we are
At Sonar we believe in people, dedication, and innovation. We’re a team of problem solvers who are passionate and relentless in their respective missions. We want to work with people who are ready and willing to fasten their seat belts and be part of an incredible ride!
Our Core Values are: Smarter Together, Excellence, Innovation, and Delivery. They reflect our unique culture and we expect them to help shape and positively strengthen our organization.
If you want to learn more about our culture, check out our blog post.
Join us; we’ll be smarter and stronger together!
Sonar is an equal-opportunity employer and is committed to treating every employee with equal respect and fairness. We maintain a zero-tolerance policy toward any form of discrimination. All candidates will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, citizenship, age, veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status.