VICE PRESIDENT - HUMAN RESOURCES 

Sunnyvale, CA

COMPANY DESCRIPTION

QuickLogic, founded in 1988, is a fabless semiconductor company designing Customer Specific Standard Products, or CSSPs. CSSPs are complete, customer-specific solutions that include a combination of silicon solution platforms, Proven System Blocks (PSBs,) customer-specific logic, software drivers and firmware. CSSPs extend battery life, improve the viewability of images on mobile displays and add differentiated features to handheld mobile devices. 

QuickLogic supplies leading-edge, low-power customizable semiconductor sub-system solutions for tablets, smartphones, broadband data cards, secure access data cards and mobile enterprise products. These solutions include storage, video imaging, wireless networks, USB connectivity and security.

JOB DESCRIPTION

Reporting to the President and CEO, The Vice President, Human Resources is one of seven key leadership roles on the Executive Leadership Team (ELT).  The role holder is responsible for providing critical strategic and tactical support to the business by creating and flawlessly executing people strategies and practices that are aligned to our business objectives. He/she will ensure continued growth of the value of HR’s contribution to the overall success of QuickLogic and will deliver aligned people strategies through strong partnerships with key stakeholders.

Key result areas include and are not limited to: 

• Attract, recruit, and hire quality talent in a competitive environment that meets the requirements of the business while ensuring efficient and best processes and procedures are followed and executed.
• Lead and mentor a world-class and results-oriented global HR function.
• Ensure that all HR activities (e.g. compensation, benefits, learning and development, contribution management, etc.) are compliant with global regulations, are competitive in the marketplace and provide employees with opportunities for growth and development.
• As a member of the ELT, participate in the organization’s business planning processes and ensure that all HR programs and policies are aligned with organizational goals and priorities and support QuickLogic’s strategic and financial goals.
• Ensure that HR activities contribute to creating and maintaining an engaging corporate culture and climate that attracts, motivates and retains employees.
• Acting as an advocate for the employees, ensure that the ELT is aware of HR best practices and that QuickLogic continues to be an employer of choice for its employees.

Key Activities/Tasks include and are not limited to:

• Drive the employee “branding” for QuickLogic (e.g. Best Place to Work) to support attraction and retention of quality talent.
• Provide all aspects of HR support/activities for international offices in the UK, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan China, India and North America.
• Develop and implement policies, procedures, manuals, etc. that ensure compliance with legal requirements, globally.
• Synthesize HR Information to ensure that all employee records are current and accurate.
• Provide compensation recommendations to hiring managers and provide information to third-party compensation research firms (e.g. Radford), as required, while ensuring that the company is in compliance with all compensation and benefits laws and regulations.
• Provide input to the Compensation Committee Board members, as required.
• Drive the implementation of effective Contribution Management processes for all employees.
• In conjunction with departmental managers, identify learning and development needs of employees and implement appropriate programs to meet those needs.
• Act as a business partner to the ELT and departmental managers, providing coaching, counseling and support as needed.
• Promote a positive work environment and ensure employee relations issues are effectively addressed in a timely manner.
• Promote, maintain and advance QuickLogic’s company culture and values and spearhead celebrations and other employee activities.
• Own the agenda for the regular QuickLogic company-wide Communications Meetings.
• Drive talent management discussions to ensure optimum organizational design and proper succession planning.
• Provide facilitation services for meetings, as required.

• Responsible for the design and implementation of the company’s benefits programs, 401(k) and reward and recognition programs.
• Provide leadership, coaching and professional development support to direct reports and serve as a role model for effective management.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• At least 10 years of experience in senior HR roles within the high-technology industry
• At least 5 yeas of management experience
• Knowledge of current legal requirements for immigration, compliance, diversity, etc.
• Experience developing and implementing company-wide initiatives
• Experience conducting organizational design analysis and implementation
• Experience in change management
• Ability to build trust and commitment by following through with stated actions, communicate transparently with employees, and acting as a role model and example the company values
• Ability to collaborate with others by building strong relationships with peers/teams/departments and approaching problem solving from the company perspective
• Ability to coach and counsel both employees and executive-level management

• Ability to develop others by leading paths for career development and constructively delivering honest and direct feedback to direct reports and colleagues

• Ability to multi-task and balance numerous priorities in a fast paced, deadline-oriented environment
• Ability to work independently and to deal with ambiguity
• Excellent organizational, analytical and project management skills, with particular attention to quality and detail.
• Superb communication skills—verbal, written, presentation and delivery skills
• Outstanding influencing skills that build trust and commitment
• Strong conflict management, facilitation and collaborative problem-resolution skills
• Exceptional leadership and negotiation skills
• Able to communicate effectively at all levels of the organization
• Exceptional customer service orientation
• Exceptional relationship management skills
• Word, Excel and PowerPoint competence and experience using Human Resource Information Systems (HRIS)

Also so important in the bigger pic.  I have read all the job descriptions this past 12 months, about 3-4 sort of blew me away is what they told me.  For me its the best way to gauge the future for QUIK,  they have added maybe 100 man yrs of experience this past yr.  They did not come here to do nothing, rather the adjacent possible,  with their experience they can do exactly as Carve Mead suggests...listen to what the technology is telling you..............move QUIK toward the adjacent possible.

I am all done listening to the I pronoun...........forget that( for the most part) if you just listen to the technology, which means you have to read a ton to be able to do it, you can hear it from a pure source.

I keep building up the share count while its cheap.  

RC are you reading this?  Let me know.