Scientific Safety Alliance

This is a once-in-a-career opportunity to architect a category-defining People function at a company already accelerating on a powerful growth trajectory. It is a dream role for an innovator and builder who wants to create a high-performance people organization — one not centered on bureaucracy, policy management, or reactive employee issues, but on elite talent, ownership, productivity, and long-term value creation.

The Chief People Officer will serve as a core member of SSA’s executive leadership team and will be responsible for building and scaling the people organization required to support aggressive growth, frequent acquisitions, and increasing operational complexity.

At SSA, People is not a support function — it is the most strategic function in the company. You will build the systems, culture, and leadership engine that enable an army of A-Players to consistently outperform the industry, stay for the long term, and passionately build SSA as owners — turning talent into a durable competitive advantage and a primary driver of enterprise value.

• Proven first-time CPO experience — you have built the People function from the ground up
• Track record of building a distinctive, non-cookie-cutter People function (e.g., Netflix-style thinking)
• Proven experience scaling teams and infrastructure in acquisitive or multi-entity environments
• Deep expertise across talent, performance, L&D, compensation, equity, and compliance
• Builder mentality — you design systems that didn’t exist before
• Experience in rapid growth PE-backed, or highly complex environments preferred.
• Operator mindset — you measure success by business outcomes, not HR activity
• Proven experience building and scaling Learning & Development programs, including leadership development, manager training, and high-potential programs in high-growth environments
• Demonstrated experience leading HR compliance, employment law risk mitigation, and governance in complex, multi-state and/or international environments