Director of Human Resources

Why Citysearch is the Company for you:
Are you passionate about working at a company that provides products and services that are essential to millions of users in their day-to-day lives? Whether you are looking to find a restaurant that serves your favorite dish or just looking for a highly recommended neighborhood dry cleaner, Citysearch is the leading local search, directory, and media company that can make it happen!

Your talent and initiative is needed!
We are seeking a Director of Human Resources who will be an innovative partner in developing a strategic and future-focused human resources function. A core team objective is to build an industry-dominating performance culture. We are looking for a team player to fill this role and who can help take Citysearch to higher levels of success in the industry.

The essential functional HR competencies of this role are:

• Business Understanding: Ability to explore and understand the inter-relations of the business processes, financial metrics, and organizational systems and structures.
• Compensation and Benefits: Demonstrated ability to understand and apply total pay concepts to attract, motivate, and retain key employees in the organization.
• Organizational Development: Demonstrated ability to use a systems perspective to diagnose an organization and facilitate process improvements and organizational capacity building.
• Employee Effectiveness: Demonstrated ability to keep in touch with the workforce, anticipating employee reaction and impact of business decisions.
• Performance Management: Knowledge of the process of performance management that includes defining success, establishing measurements, providing feedback, and rewarding performance.
• Staffing: Ability to partner with the Talent Acquisition function by building action plans with staffing partners to maintain active pipeline of talent.
• Workforce Planning: Demonstrated ability to identify the HR talent acquisition implications of a 3-year business strategy and to implement solutions to meet identified needs.
• Employee Communications: Skills in developing a strategy to implement a plan to ensure effective communication channels within the multiple levels in the organization.
• Group Dynamics: Knowledge of team effectiveness/facilitation skills, and models.
REQUIREMENTS
EDUCATION/EXPERIENCE:
• Undergraduate degree is required; advanced degree is a plus.

Professional Qualifications
• A successful track record of exceptional human resources management experience for at least 7 years operating as a business partner.
• Demonstration of sustained success, as evidenced by client groups profitable growth in which you were the leader of the HR function.
• Direct experience working in interactive media and technology is desirable.
• Accustomed to working in a rapidly-changing, high growth environment and able to provide leadership engendering drive and team cooperation while being fully
• Capable of making tough decisions and acting on them as appropriate. Able to articulate clear, meaningful goals and focus people’s efforts to deliver results.
• Strong background in core HR functions such as compensation and/or organizational development will be a big plus. In addition, must have been in a senior advisor role to business unit leader. Experience managing and leading HR professionals is preferred.

Personal Characteristics
• High personal courage and energy
• High integrity, vision and conceptual capabilities
• Have a sense of humor and enjoy their work
• Balance and objectivity
• Consultative, influential, facilitative and collaborative
• Able to manage in a changing and ambiguous environment
• High interpersonal skills, listening and empathy
• High standards of quality

When applying, please be sure to include the job code "LA DHRCB" in the subject line. Failure to do so will cause a delay in your candidacy. Thank you.