Vice President of People & Culture

Position: Future Now - Vice President of People & Culture

We believe it is self-evident that all people are created equal, with the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness – and that government secures these rights with the consent of the governed. We call this the American Promise.

To achieve the American Promise requires effective government, fair markets, personal freedom, and representative democracy – and it starts, as the Declaration of Independence itself did, with the states.

Future Now is an effort to achieve the American Promise in states with high impact interventions. The Future Now family includes initiatives such as The States Project and The States Forum.

The States Project builds power for state lawmakers – the most important policymakers in the country – to improve lives.

Everything we care about starts in state legislatures, including abortion access, good schools, affordable healthcare, and clean air and water.

The Opportunity

The Vice President of People & Culture will have the opportunity to act as a key leader for Future Now and its initiatives by developing and overseeing comprehensive people and culture strategies and implementation to support Future Now’s mission and achieve the ambitious goals outlined in our American Promise at Work.

The role will ensure that compensation, benefits, professional development, recruiting, culture, and employee relations and engagement strategies are aligned to the American Promise at Work and support the leadership and staff at Future Now and its initiatives.

The Vice President of People & Culture will partner with leaders to set and foster a positive, high-performing internal culture that supports people from different experiences and backgrounds to significantly contribute to our mission. The role will also be responsible for ensuring human resources systems are effective, efficient, and compliant including by appropriately leveraging technology.

This position will manage a small team and report directly to the General Counsel, the C-level leader of Future Now’s Operations work. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in building and maintaining high-performing teams and designing and overseeing strategic people and culture initiatives to support leaders at all levels. This is a hands‑on role: the successful Vice-President of People & Culture will set high level strategy and also roll up their sleeves to get the work done.

Position Details

This is a full-time, exempt, at‑will position that will work across Future Now and affiliated initiatives. The team currently operates remotely, with occasional in-person team retreats, etc. Some travel will be required. Additional evening and weekend hours are occasionally required to fulfill the duties of this position.

What You Will Do

Principal activities will include but not be limited to:

People Strategy

• Ensure full alignment between people strategy, talent architecture, and organizational priorities
• Serve as a strategic advisor to the General Counsel and other C-level leaders, influencing decision making on talent, prioritization, and planning from a people and culture lens
• Ensure people systems are flexible enough to serve project teams with distinct cultures and impact goals, while ensuring consistent compliance and quality of employee experience

Strategic System Design

• Perform continuous review and improvement of systems across compensation, benefits, professional development, performance management, recruiting, employee relations, and engagement to best support Future Now and its initiatives
• Design and implement systems to provide regular and ongoing opportunities for staff professional development, training, learning, and effective recruitment and retention

Culture Leadership

• Ensure effective culture strategies to support The…