Vice President, Operations at The Humane League

You're a seasoned operations leader with extensive experience managing people, finance, IT, and administration functions, ideally within a mission-driven or non

Work type: remote

Location: Full-Time - Location: United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Ireland, Czechia, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Canada, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cape Verde, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, Sierra Leone; Remote

Salary: $161,242 – $196,466/yr

Type: Full-time

Summary

You're a seasoned operations leader with extensive experience managing people, finance, IT, and administration functions, ideally within a mission-driven or nonprofit setting. Your background includes fostering accountability, driving continuous improvement, and empowering teams in a globally distributed environment. **What makes it worth a look...** The Humane League is offering a full-time, fully remote Vice President, Operations role with a compensation range of $161,242–$196,466 annually for US-based candidates. They are a highly effective global nonprofit dedicated to ending animal abuse. **You might be a good fit if you...** * Have led large-scale internal system and process optimization across HR functions. * Possess executive-level experience overseeing finance, including strategic planning and budgeting. * Have provided strategic direction for information technology functions, including cybersecurity and AI implementation strategy. * Are adept at developing and implementing organizational policies and procedures that ensure compliance.

Job Description

### WHO WE ARE

The Humane League (THL) is a global nonprofit working to end the abuse of animals raised for food. Recognized as a Top Charity by Animal Charity Evaluators for multiple years running, we are regarded as one of the most effective animal protection organizations in the world. We are a high-impact, mission-driven team that uses our time, talent, and resources strategically to dismantle factory farming and create lasting change for farmed animals worldwide. We set bold goals, embrace continuous improvement, and hold ourselves accountable to the animals who depend on us. As a fully remote organization with 100+ staff across the globe, we collaborate across borders and with partner organizations to build a powerful, united movement for animals.

### YOUR OPPORTUNITY

At THL, our unwavering commitment to ending the abuse of animals raised for food is powered by an exceptional team and robust operational foundations. We are seeking a visionary Vice President of Operations to provide comprehensive leadership across our People, Finance, IT, and Administration functions. This critical role ensures that our internal systems, processes, and procedures are lean, nimble, cost-effective, and deeply aligned with our mission, directly driving our global impact.

You are the ideal leader for this role if you possess extensive progressive operations leadership experience, coupled with a successful track record in mission-driven organizations and a deep commitment to animal protection. Empowering your team is at the heart of your leadership style, and you view challenges as opportunities for innovation and growth. You prioritize open, clear, and transparent communication, welcoming diverse perspectives and fostering a strong sense of agency within your teams. With genuine care for individual development, you engage in honest conversations that promote personal and professional growth, ensuring that each team member is able to thrive in their role. You model and encourage accountability, providing constructive feedback with clarity and kindness and addressing issues directly to cultivate a culture of trust and candor.

As VP of Operations, you play a crucial role in developing and implementing efficient and effective systems, processes, and procedures across the organization. You will thrive in this role as a systems thinker, with a focus on building lean, nimble, and cost-effective operations functions that maximize every donor dollar by minimizing overhead costs and ensuring our staff can remain laser-focused on their programmatic work. As a collaborative business partner to the Senior Leadership Team and others, you will serve as a problem-solver who can unlock internal barriers so that THL can do the best work possible to advance our mission. You’ll build operations systems, policies, and procedures that serve the organization’s needs, and will lead on evolving any that don’t. You will work to align the organization’s operational functions with its long-term strategy and goals, fostering a high-agency, high-accountability, and high-performance work environment that supports THL's global objectives.

This position reports directly to the CEO. As a valued member of the Senior Leadership Team, you will collaborate closely with our General Counsel, Chief of Staff, and other Vice Presidents to achieve overarching organizational goals and priorities.

This is a full-time, remote position, based in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, Ireland, Czechia, Denmark, Hungary, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Sweden, Canada, Ecuador, Peru, Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cape Verde, Ghana, Liberia, Senegal, or Sierra Leone. This position requires domestic and international travel, equivalent to 3 or more week-long trips per year. Because THL is a global organization, you may be required to work outside of standard working hours, depending on your time zone, to effectively collaborate with international teams.

### ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

Strategic Operations Leadership







People & Culture





Finance




Information Technology (IT)




Administration & Operations





In addition to the above essential job duties, other duties may be assigned as business needs arise. These may include non-essential, marginal job duties.

### REQUIRED SKILLS










### PREFERRED SKILLS

Additionally, the ideal candidate will possess most, if not all the following qualities, skills, and characteristics:





Applications will be reviewed on a rolling basis. New candidates are welcome to apply as long as this job opening is listed on our website. If you are experiencing technical issues, please contact [careers@thehumaneleague.org](mailto:careers@thehumaneleague.org). Please submit applications and all supporting documents in English.All application questions and materials need to be submitted here through the application submission form; we do not accept applications through our careers email.Hiring Timeline

Once your application has been reviewed, you will be notified via email with further details on the status of your application. If a candidate is moved forward, the interview process will be as follows:





Each stage is expected to last a week or two on average. For full details of our full-time position recruitment process, please review [this document](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1oKGpBZS4rU4A3hcB4RgHIFd3PgK0r0xuTK8Ad9znvRA/edit?usp=sharing) (this will vary for temporary roles; please see the above bullet points for this role's specific stages).

Compensation and Benefits

The annual compensation range for this role is:




















At The Humane League, we believe in maintaining a fair and nondiscriminatory work environment. As part of our commitment to transparency, we have implemented a job architecture framework, which levels all of our roles according to size and complexity, as well as a compensation step system, which allows us to determine fair salaries for all. We also look at market data for each country that we operate in, to allow us to create specific salary bands per country. This work is time consuming and involves a cost to THL. Therefore, when expanding into a country for the first time, we only undertake this work towards the end of the recruitment process, when we know where our ideal candidate is based. In addition, we have adopted a no negotiation policy for salaries. To determine a job's level, we carefully consider a variety of factors, including a job's size and complexity, required experience, knowledge, and/or skills, internal comparability, and market data. Candidates whose experience places them at step 5 or above of their job level within our compensation structure will be awarded a “Senior” title designation. These practices are aligned with our organizational values and will help us ensure we maintain clear, consistent, and transparent HR processes.

THL offers a unique and competitive benefits package. Each country will be provided with benefits that are applicable and relative to the location they are in. Therefore, your exact benefits package will be shared with you at the time of offer. However, as an idea, some of the benefits that are currently offered to our global team are:












For candidates outside the United States, The Humane League will not be your direct employer. The successful candidate will enter an employment agreement with a local Employer of Record with whom The Humane League partners.

Equal Employment Opportunity

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