Director, People & Culture Panorama

Position description

Panorama is a platform for social change driven by audacious thinking, radical collaboration, and bold action. We help our partners navigate multiple pathways from vision to impact based on their needs. Our mission is to maximize social impact by partnering with visionary leaders to co-develop solutions to change systems. Panorama’s value proposition is helping partners to operate in smarter, more impactful, and more efficient ways.

Panorama’s values are built on four core principles:

• Vision:
  See the big picture and examine all angles
• Integrity:
  Maintain trust and strive for excellence
• Partnership:
  Collaborate and foster meaningful relationships
• Impact:
  Act boldly and create a ripple effect.

The Panorama Group is a community of organizations that includes:

• Panorama Global, a social impact nonprofit that empowers changemakers through radical collaboration
• Panorama Strategy, a social purpose consultancy that accelerates progress for partners through audacious thinking
• Panorama Action, which mobilizes voices and resources through bold action

The Director, People & Culture provides strategic leadership and operational oversight for all HR functions across the organization. This role leads a team of six to ensure the organization attracts, develops and supports a dynamic global workforce of employees. This role will also have direct oversight of the HR function and services we offer to our fiscally sponsored employees.

The ideal candidate is a collaborative, people-centered leader experienced in nonprofit environments, with strong expertise in both strategy and hands‑on HR execution.

Candidates must be based in one of Panorama’s hub cities (Seattle, Denver, Washington, DC, and New York City). For Seattle and NYC, employees are expected to work in the office four days per week starting in 2026. In Washington, DC and Denver, this requirement will go into effect once the offices are established no earlier than Q4 2026.

Strategic Leadership

• Serve as subject matter expert to the organization on people-related strategy, workforce planning and organizational effectiveness.
• Lead employee engagement initiatives, organizational culture, change management and employee relations.
• Provide coaching and guidance to people managers on performance management, team dynamics, conflict resolution and leadership development.
• Partner with leaders to build career pathways and growth opportunities for staff.

People & Culture Team Leadership

• Lead, mentor and develop a high-performing team of six, including four direct reports:
  Senior Talent Manager, Senior People Partner, Sponsored Projects, Senior Specialist, Talent Acquisition and People Operations Generalist.
• Oversee all HR functions: HR Operations & Compliance, Talent Management, Talent Acquisition, Sponsored Projects Employee Strategy, and Fee-for-Service business development opportunities.
• Develop, implement and manage systems, processes and policies that support employee performance, engagement, development and accountability for both core employees and staff within our sponsored projects.
• Use HR data and analytics to make data-driven people strategies.

HR Compliance and Talent Management

• Lead on HR compliance across all federal, state and local employment laws, including worker classification.
• Manage risk mitigation strategies, investigations and employee relations matters.
• Oversee recruitment and onboarding strategy to ensure equitable and effective hiring processes.
• Develop and manage performance management systems, professional development programs and succession planning processes.
• Serve as HR Business Partner across Panorama Global, Panorama Action and Panorama Strategy.

Organizational Engagement & Participation

• Exemplify qualities of Panorama’s Values, Culture and Mission as an impact player who embraces everyday challenges and ambiguity as opportunities to lean in and take action, demonstrates curiosity and commitment to asking questions, learning, and adapting, commits to adding value to their team and to Panorama, and actively contributes to the enhancement of Panorama’s culture by participating in organizational and team…