Director of People & Operations
Company: Destify
Location: Chicago, IL 60602 (Remote)
Salary: $145,000 - $165,000 a year
Type: Full-time
Level: head
Remote: Yes
Posted: 2026-02-10
About this role
Description:
Who We Are:
We are Destify! We focus on our people, our culture, and our technology. We're reimagining the destination wedding experience, simplifying the complex, celebrating the meaningful, and building technology that connects thousands of couples to their dream celebrations.
Who You Are:
A leader who sees the direct link between a high-performing team and a healthy bottom line. You will be the bridge between our financial goals and the employee experience, ensuring every team member understands their impact on our growth and feels the reward of that effort.
In this role, you’ll modernize how we support our people, with the autonomy to identify where we can improve and the authority to implement those changes. Whether you're partnering with department leaders to define success for their teams or tuning our recruitment engine to find elite talent, your focus is always on building an environment where high performers can scale.
- **A Strategic Partner:** You can sit in a leadership meeting and talk P&L, then hop into a 1:1 and lead with empathy and clarity.
- **A Problem Solver:** You enjoy the challenge of taking a manual process and turning it into something scalable, automated, and effortless.
- **A Safety Net:** You have a high attention to detail. You’re the one who catches the small tax or equipment errors before they become headaches for the team.
Requirements:
Key Responsibilities:
### 1. Team Success
- **Measuring What Matters:** Own the quarterly eNPS process, moving beyond simple reporting to present and execute real strategies that improve team health and retention.
- **Company Culture & Events:** Lead the end-to-end planning of our company outings and annual retreat.
- **Travel Logistics:** Oversee the coordination of travel and lodging for quarterly team meetings.
### 2. The Employee Experience
- **Lifecycle Refinement:** Polish the onboarding and offboarding process to remove friction and ensure a high-lev...