About Acast
Since 2014, Acast has been building the world’s most valuable podcast marketplace, creating the technology that connects podcast creators, advertisers, and listeners. Its marketplace spans more than 140,000 podcasts, 3,300 advertisers, and one billion quarterly listens. Crucially, those listens are monetized wherever they happen—across any podcast app or listening platform.

About the role

Stockholm, Sweden - Acast, the world's leading independent podcast company, is seeking a visionary People Director to cultivate its talent-focused environment and champion its growth mindset.

This is a hands-on, strategic leadership role where collaboration with international leaders is essential to align People practices with Acast's ambitious business objectives and drive positive, impactful change across the organization.

The successful candidate will spearhead the evolution of Acast's HR functions, with a strong focus on strategic people operations and organizational development. This entails ensuring seamless and compliant HR processes on a global scale while continuously innovating to enhance the employee experience. The People Director will be a champion of Acast's open and collaborative culture, fostering an environment where curiosity, bravery, and a passion for audio are celebrated.

This pivotal role offers the opportunity to lead and inspire a dedicated team, fostering their growth and delivering high-performance results. The ideal candidate will be a dynamic and empathetic leader with a proven track record of developing and executing successful people strategies in a fast-paced, creative, and technology-driven environment. At Acast, the People Director will not just be building a team, but nurturing a global community dedicated to the power of storytelling.

Please note that we are approaching the summer vacation period, so you may experience a delay in responses until mid-August.

What you´ll do

Leadership and Team Management - Lead Acast's global People function, driving the strategic People agenda while developing and mentoring the People team to align with Acast's specific business objectives. Focus on mentoring, development, and fostering a collaborative team culture.

People Operational Oversight - Oversee and ensure initiatives support Acast's growth and global presence and manage the Talent Lead that will oversee talent acquisition and development strategies, develop global talent programs, and support talent pipeline growth.

Global Strategic People Agenda - You will focus on both being on-hands and delegating project leadership in key areas such as performance management, talent acquisition, and learning & development. This as well as other People related processes or projects to the People Managers, all tailored to Acast’s needs. Your focus together with the team will be to expand and set up compensation and benefits structures globally, salary reviews, and level frameworks specific to Acast’s local markets.

Who you are

• Proven leadership experience in a global HR/People role, ideally within the media or technology sector similar to Acast.

• Demonstrated ability to manage and develop high-performing teams within a fast-paced environment.

• Strong strategic thinking and problem-solving abilities relevant to Acast's business challenges.

• Experience in developing and implementing People strategies that align with Acast’s objectives.

• In-depth knowledge of compensation and benefits, talent acquisition, and performance management within a global context.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, vital for working across Acast’s diverse teams.

• Growth mindset and a passion for people development, particularly in the context of our evolving business.

Culture 

Acast is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment regardless of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, national origin or any of the other wonderful characteristics that make us different.

Culture is our number one priority as a business. We believe people come first, and we work every day to enable autonomy, continuous improvement and bring out the best in people. We’re global and have remote teams, so it’s even more important that we strive for an open, inclusive and caring environment where everyone feels visible and welcome. 

We consider ourselves a modern organization driven by strong values to create the best, most fulfilling and nurturing culture.

We very much look forward to finding the next great person to join our cause!