September 2020 Newsletter | Frederickson Partners

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September

IN THIS ISSUE:

LETTER FROM VALERIE | FEATURED SEARCHES
BEST OF REST HR SEARCHES | FEATURED HR PLACEMENT
THE COVID CORNER

LETTER FROM VALERIE

Valerie Frederickson
Founder & CEO

The Land Grab of 2020

I hope you all are having a great fall and enjoying some nice weather. The smoke from the fires here on the West Coast has finally dissipated, and we have blue skies again in Northern California and once again can go outside for walks (or just to breathe).

This will be a short letter, because we are so busy with a plethora of HR searches and a bevy of HR advisory work. We have around 25 People/HR searches listed in the newsletter this month. Please check out our searches and think about whom you know who might be good.

We’re also hiring more experienced high-level and mid-level HR executives for our Advisory Practice, and internally hiring experienced HR executive search people who are partner-level, mid-level and entry-level. All our clients are hiring, ranging from moderate (25-50 job openings monthly) to high (thousands monthly). They need either a first or upgraded Head of People/HR, or a Head of Total Rewards, Talent, D&I or HRBP. We’ve got numerous huge IPOs lined up, companies of all sizes are doing strategic acquisitions, and everyone wants help revisiting their Employer-Employee experience and evaluating what this will all mean post-Covid. My particular passion right now is coaching CEOs and board members on candidate selection, and on how to look at themselves more introspectively and tie their findings in with whom they hire. Come join the fun: interview for a new job, look at how to upgrade your team and think about how to improve your programs. Welcome to Autumn 2020!

Best,

FREDERICKSON CURRENT HUMAN RESOURCE
EXECUTIVE SEARCHES

Pre-IPO B2C E-Commerce Exchange (huge growth)	Enterprise SaaS (huge IPO coming up)	Pre-IPO Cryptocurrency (very high growth)
Chief People Officer Detroit, MI	Chief Experience (People) Officer Utah or Seattle, WA	Head of People Experience Anywhere in the world

Pre-IPO Enterprise SaaS	Public Enterprise SaaS (high growth)	Pre-IPO Fintech (very high growth)
Interim VP People Sunnyvale, CA	VP HRBP Seattle, WA	Global VP of Talent Acquisition Miami, Atlanta, NY, etc.

Pre-IPO Enterprise Financial SaaS	Public Enterprise Software	Pre-IPO Fintech
Head of Talent Acquisition San Mateo, CA	Senior Director, HRBP San Mateo, CA	HRBP Mexico City, Mexico

Public Fintech	Pre-IPO E-Commerce Marketing Automation	Public Financial Services
HRBP Chicago, IL	Head of Compensation and Benefits Boston, MA or anyway in US	Multiple Senior HRBPs Upper Midwest

Confidential	Consumer Goods	Pre-IPO Enterprise Financial SaaS
Head of Compensation San Francisco, CA	Head of Diversity and Inclusion San Francisco, CA	CPO San Mateo, CA

Venture Capital (new search)	Fintech	Not-For-Profit (high growth)
HR Director Menlo Park, CA	Director, HRBP Seattle, WA	HRBP Silicon Valley

Enterprise Public SaaS	Enterprise Public SaaS	Pre-IPO B2B E-Commerce
Senior Director, HRBP Seattle, WA	HRBPs All over the US	Head of HR for EMEA London, UK

Pre-IPO SaaS Fintech (high growth)	Public SaaS Cybersecurity	Enterprise Public SaaS
VP of Total Rewards and HR Operations Anywhere in the US	VPHR/HRBP Portland, OR	VP Talent Acquisition Anywhere in the US

Pre-IPO Enterprise SaaS	HealthTech	B2C E-Commerce
Head of Global Talent Head of Total Rewards Sunnyvale, CA	HRBP Phoenix, AZ or San Diego, CA	Interim HR Director/VP of HR Anywhere in U.S. (Remote)

Pre-IPO Analytics	Cybersecurity
Global VP People East Coast (FL) Speaks Spanish	VPHR/HRBP Portland, OR

SAMPLE RECENTLY COMPLETED
HR AND PEOPLE SEARCHES


Senior Director, HRBP, Sales Menlo Park, CA CLOSED	Global Head of People Services Redwood City, CA CLOSED

SAMPLE BEST OF
THE REST HR SEARCHES

Human Resources Business Partner First Republic Bank San Francisco, CA	Sr. Director, Human Resources Operations Genesys Daly City, CA (or Indianapolis, IN or Durham, NC)
Head of People Pilot San Francisco, CA	Sr. Human Resources Business Partner Waymo Mountain View, CA

SAMPLE COMPLETED
PEOPLE/HR SEARCH – OPENTEXT

Founded in 1991, OpenText is a market leader in Enterprise Information Management software and solutions, enabling intelligent and connected organizations worldwide by managing, leveraging, securing and gaining insight into enterprise information.

We’re thrilled to report that we’ve recently placed Jennifer May as OpenText’s Senior Director, Human Resources Business Partner (HRBP). In this strategic HR role, she will act as a trusted consultant and partner to Sales, Sales Ops and Marketing functions. Jennifer brings over 25 years of broad global HR business leadership to the role. Most recently she served as a Senior Director of HR for eight years at Genomic Health (now Exact Sciences), and previously was Senior HR Director for four years at Genencor. She has also served in HR executive leadership roles at eBay and Nortel. Jennifer received an M.B.A. from U.C. Berkeley’s Walter A. Haas School of Business, and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

Congratulations Jennifer, and welcome to OpenText!

THE COVID CORNER

A Note About the West Coast Fires

With all the U.S. West Coast fires, orange skies and smoky air, on top of the ongoing pandemic, we on the West Coast are focused on hanging in there and hoping the fires can subside soon. Our hearts go out to those who have suffered unimaginable losses, and we’re grateful to the firefighters on the front lines. It has really been difficult between the smoke, high heat, lack of AC and lack of anywhere to go to escape. Luckily this week we have blue skies and can breathe again without coughing.

An Update: Home Schooling Advice

Many families are finding that distance learning is difficult because their kids miss in-person class interactions. My kids are cool because we’re doing our Little School with five fifth graders and an eighth grader and a full-time private teacher supporting the local school’s curriculum. Not everyone can do exactly this, but my advice based on what’s been working well with this situation is as follows:

Find a family you can “bubble” with who is as Covid-safe as you are. I did a search to find the right three families to join our Little School bubble, and it has paid off now as the kids can get together in person without masks.

There will never be a better year to hire recent college grads or current students to tutor your kids, so take advantage of cheap or even free tutoring (see Nextdoor postings). This can be done outside if necessary for Covid safety.

Consistently provide your kids’ teachers with feedback on what’s working and modify the school program to meet your kids’ needs--whether they need much less Zoom time or more, quiet time to get work done or frequent check-ins. Your teacher won’t know if you don’t tell them.

Let your teacher, principal and superintendent know how much you appreciate and support them.

Take your kids out of the house as much as possible, for drives, safe errands or walks for a break.

Have a video game time strategy personalized for each kid. I want my daughter to play Roblox so she can “be” with her friends and want my son off of Fortnight because it’s addictive. Though this isn’t exactly equal, it’s true to what each child needs (and Mommy Knows Best).

Covid/Wildfires/Heat Wave/Homeschooling Meme of the Month