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About Float
Float is on a mission to simplify finance for Canadian businesses empowering them to eliminate complexity and unlock new opportunities. Through our innovative platform Float enables businesses to streamline financial operations and optimize cash flow so they can focus on what matters most: growth.
As one of Canadas fastest growing companies and toprated startups in 2024 and 2023 Float is customerobsessed passionate and entrepreneurial with a team that includes leaders from Uber Shopify Top Hat TouchBistro and Ada.
At Float everyone is an owner bringing their unique perspective to our team and product. Your voice is important and we take having a culture based on feedback seriously. We openly share our thoughts and differing opinions so we can continue to improve. We do our best to keep our decisionmaking decentralized so that all team members feel ownership in our success.
Our Product
Float is Canadas complete business finance platform combining modern financial services and software to help businesses spend save and grow. Trusted by 4000 Canadian companies Float provides highlimit corporate cards automated expense management nextday bill payments highyield accounts and fast friendly supportall built in Canada for Canada. Float is backed by worldclass venture and fintech investors including Growth Equity at Goldman Sachs Alternatives and OMERS Ventures partners behind our $70 million Series B raise.
Our team is a collection of ambitious collaborative and missiondriven people from all walks of life but with one goal: helping Canadian companies not just survive but thrive. And were looking for bold innovators to help shape the future of business finance in Canada.
About the VP People role
We are looking for an outstanding VP People to help guide us and our business through a critical moment of evolution and growth. As a key partner to the executive team and a steward of our culture youll have full ownership of all Peoplerelated programs and systems from performance management to organizational design and operational infrastructure.
This is a highimpact hightrust leadership role at the heart of our company. Were looking for a handson growthoriented leader who can drive change fast enable velocity and elevate organizational performance to worldclass standards. Youll be responsible for building a highperforming valuesdriven organization with relentless accountability ensuring Float attracts and retains the highestcalibre talent in the world.
The ideal candidate combines sharp business acumen with decisive actionunafraid to restructure teams roll out new frameworks or deliver hard truths with clarity and conviction. If youre motivated by impact ambition and the opportunity to shape the future of a company scaling at speed Float is the place.
In this role youll be responsible for:
Organizational Velocity & Agility: You will be a key thought partner to the CEO & Leadership team on how to drive organizational velocity adaptability and agility as we scale toward our mission of simplifying Finance for Canadian businesses.
Performance Management and Continuously Raising the Bar: Build and oversee systems of accountability that drive worldclass performance by setting clear expectations fostering organizational clarity and cultivating a culture of ambition to continuously raise standards of performance.
Talent Development: Create scalable frameworks and initiatives that enable the growth of world class individual contributors and people leaders ensuring a strong internal leadership pipeline.
People and Workplace Strategy: Define and execute a People and Workplace strategy that enables access to the best talent supports evolving business needs and designs the right structures and environments to fuel high performance.
HR Excellence and Business Partnership: Set the strategy and oversee the of worldclass HR programs across the employee lifecycle including:
Onboarding experience and enablement
Total Rewards Compensation and Equity programs
Benefits and perks design and optimization
Performance management frameworks and talent reporting
You will be a fit for this role if you have:
Strong Business Acumen: You have a foundational background in management consulting finance or positions that have required sharp commercial judgment and strategic insight. You show an ability to understand broader organizational dynamics beyond traditional HR functions.
Business Owner Mentality: You believe your responsibility is to achieve our collective business objectives before advocating for your functional responsibilities. You craft your objectives in response to the organizations needs rather than advocating for functional HR goals.
Willingness to Embrace Change: You constantly strive to improve and raise the bar for yourself your team and the organization. You are resilient in the face of challenges and seek out opportunities to improve.
Organizational Leadership and Impact: You drive organizational change and accelerate operational velocity. You proactively define how Float can achieve its organizational and customer objectives through the lens of our team rather than allowing existing circumstances to dictate how we proceed forward.
SystemsOriented Thinking: You approach challenges through a systems lens focusing on structures processes and interdependencies rather than individuals alone.
TruthSeeking and TruthSpeaking are at your core: Spy and voracious you want to know the why behind every answer. You proactively surface insights on the team and business no matter how difficult the conversations and hold the team accountable to outcomes.
This role wont be a fit if:
You are not a selfstarter and require close oversight to make progress
You arent deeply invested in building and refining your craft
You require existing structure and are uncomfortable working through ambiguity
You are uncomfortable giving and receiving direct feedback
You seek stability over growth and change
You arent comfortable prioritizing work in a fastmoving environment
You lack a strong sense of ownership and work ethic
You see People work as administrative not strategic
You struggle to lead through influence and crossfunctional partnership
You arent resilient
You are more focused on personal ego than on collective success
You avoid hard conversations accept decisions without question and shy away from holding leadership accountable when it matters most
Dont meet every single requirement If youre excited about this role and you strongly align with our values but your past experience doesnt align perfectly we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be the right candidate for this or other future positions.
Benefits & Perks of working at Float:
Competitive compensation & total rewards
Flexible time off when you need to recharge
Catered lunches on Tuesdays & Wednesdays
A personal Float card with a quarterly stipend to spend on what matters most to you as well as a Home Office stipend
Lots of autonomy to make an impact
Opportunity to work with and learn from a worldclass team
A dogfriendly office
Being able to say you helped make Float a careerdefining period of our employees lives one that is challenging rewarding impactful fulfilling and meaningful!
Were committed to building a workplace thats welcoming and accessible for everyone. If you need any accommodations during the hiring process or once you join Float just let us know! You can reach out to Vic and well work with you to make sure you have what you need to succeed.
Required Experience:
Exec
Employment Type
Full-Time
