Sagesure

AVP, Talent Management

Jersey City, NJ; Chicago, IL; Mountain View, CA Full Time

Overview: 

If you're looking for the stability of a profitable, growing company with the entrepreneurial spirit of a startup, we’re hiring. SageSure, a leader in catastrophe-exposed property insurance, is seeking an AVP, Talent Management to drive a high-performance culture through a modern, strategic approach to talent, leadership, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness. 

This role leads the HR Business Partner function and oversees Learning & Culture, including leadership & talent development, DE&I, engagement, and social impact. In addition to building scalable people strategies that strengthen leadership capability, build bench strength, and align talent investments with growth, this leader will play a key role in shaping the future of how and where we work. They will help evolve our workplace distribution strategy and foster stronger collaboration, in-person connection, and a culture of engagement across a distributed workforce. 

The ideal candidate brings executive presence, business acumen, and a proven ability to build modern talent systems in fast-scaling environments. They pair strong advisory skills with a data-driven mindset—leveraging analytics, workforce insights, and trend analysis to shape decisions, influence leadership, and drive measurable outcomes across performance, culture, and organizational health. 

 

Primary Responsibilities: 

  • Lead and elevate a high-impact HRBP function that supports enterprise-level leaders and drives strategic alignment across business units. 
  • Collaborate with leaders on areas such as Organizational Assessment, Succession Planning, and Organizational Structure to strengthen our overall organizational capability. 
  • Shape and guide org design, change leadership, and executive coaching to strengthen performance, agility, and accountability. 
  • Expand Learning and Development to include a learning philosophy while driving a strong vision and implementation plan for continued organizational development to ensure people, policies, and processes are in place to evolve the business. 
  • Build and scale a learning philosophy and programs that strengthen capability, retention, and future-state readiness. 
  • Translate insights from employee feedback, performance data, and business priorities into targeted development programs with measurable outcomes. 
  • Support leaders through the people Performance Management cycle, coach leaders on promoting a high-performance culture and addressing performance improvement needs within their teams through action plans. 
  • Partner with senior leaders, FP&A, and Strategy to align talent investments, headcount planning, and organizational structure with long-term goals. 
  • Lead enterprise-wide succession planning, talent reviews, and mobility strategies to build bench strength and leadership continuity. 
  • Use data and analytics to inform calibration, workforce planning, and talent investment decisions. 
  • Develop frameworks that support advancement, equitable talent practices, and internal mobility across roles and levels. 
  • Partner with FP&A and Strategy to align headcount, structure, and talent investments with long-term growth. 
  • Design and evolve workplace strategies that strengthen connection, engagement, collaboration, productivity, and in-person culture across a distributed workforce. 
  • Enhance our employee engagement and culture experience by working closely with key talent stakeholders to help drive internal and external awareness of company culture, the employee experience, and our people’s stories. 
  • Develop and execute Talent Management strategies and activities that cultivate growth, innovation, employee engagement, and organizational effectiveness in alignment with our values. 

 

We’re looking for someone who has: 

  • Bachelor’s Degree in business, human resources, or related field; or equivalent experience. 
  • 15+ years’ experience working in Human Resources in a rapidly scaling organization. 
  • Proven success building, leading, or transforming a high-impact HR Business Partner function that supports senior leadership and drives organizational performance 
  • Strong understanding of talent development principles and solid foundation in training, performance management, talent reviews and leadership/management development 
  • Superior communication skills – convey confidence, empathy, and trust to build effective relationships with senior leaders on strategic and operational levels. 
  • Strong influencing skills to motivate action, drive collaboration, and impact outcomes 
  • Demonstrated experience in issue identification and resolution skills (identifying and implementing solutions, and influencing others to support proposed solutions). 
  • Strong interpersonal skills, including demonstrated ability to deal with confidential information and sensitive situations with tact and diplomacy. 
  • Excellent project management skills with the ability to multitask. 
  • Preference for working in a diverse environment that promotes equity and inclusion. 
  • Experience with Microsoft platforms (Word, Excel, PowerPoint), and HR people platforms  
  • Developed skills in coaching managers, facilitation, conflict resolution, and relationship management. 
  • Ability to leverage tools to provide metrics and reporting to the business that will help drive people decisions, such as recruiting, engagement, and turnover. 

 

Highly preferred candidates also have: 

  • Master’s Degree in business, human resources, or related field; or equivalent experience 
  • Active PHR/SPHR or SHRM-CP/SHRM-SCP certification for 5+ years.  

About SageSure:
 
Named among the Best Places to Work in Insurance by Business Insurance for four years in a row (2020-2023), SageSure is one of the largest managing general underwriters (MGU) focused on catastrophe-exposed markets in the US. Since its founding in 2009, SageSure has experienced exceptional growth while generating underwriting profits for carrier partners through hurricanes, wildfires, and hail. Available in 16 states, SageSure offers more than 50 competitively priced home, flood, earthquake, and commercial products on behalf of its highly rated carrier partners. Today, SageSure manages more than $1.9 billion of inforce premium and helps protect 640,000 policyholders. 
 
SageSure has more than 1000 employees working remotely or in-office across nine offices: Cheshire, Connecticut; Chicago, Illinois; Cincinnati, Ohio; Houston, Texas; Jersey City, New Jersey; Mountain View, California; Marlton, New Jersey; Tallahassee, Florida; and Seattle, Washington.  
 
SageSure offers generous health benefits and perks, including tuition reimbursement, wellness allowance, paid volunteer time off, a matching 401K plan, and more.
 
SageSure is a proud Equal Opportunity Employer committed to building a workforce that reflects the spectrum of perspectives, experiences, and abilities of the world we live in. We recognize that our differences make us strong, and we actively seek out diverse candidates through partnerships with organizations, institutions and communities that represent various backgrounds. We champion belonging and inclusion for all identities, including, but not limited to, race, ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, age, veteran status, ability status, gender, and country of origin, striving to create a culture where all individuals feel valued, respected, and empowered to bring their authentic selves to work.
 
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