Senior Performance & People Manager bei Sonio

About Sonio

Each year, 140M children are born. Birth defects affect 1 in 33 births in developed countries, and in 50% of cases, they are not detected during prenatal examinations. Prenatal medicine is particularly complex, and the scans impose heavy responsibilities on healthcare professionals. They can also be a source of stress for future parents.

Resulting from 5 years of collaboration between world-renowned experts from Necker Hospital and Ecole Polytechnique, Sonio uses artificial intelligence to improve prenatal screening and diagnosis. Based on patented algorithms and a proprietary expert database, Sonio aims to become the reference tool to help practitioners improve screening, reduce diagnostic errors, and optimize pregnant women’s medical path.

Sonio's mission is to improve women's and children's health by promoting access and quality of care through technological innovation, medical expertise, and collective intelligence.

About the role

We have been very intentional in growing Sonio with a strong culture centred around four pillars: Impact, Product, People & Performance. In this role, you’ll focus on how to maximise the performance of a growing 80-person cross-border team. You’ll report directly to the Director of People & Culture, excom member & board observer. Main tasks will be:

• Support the excom in building the team & Processes that will reach 2026 and onwards objectives (Revenue generation, Customer satisfaction, installation at scale)

• Define & run Sonio’s performance framework holistically

  • Run the performance review cycles end-to-end

  • Continuously improve the incentive system & salary grid to reward performance fairly across the team

  • Ensure metrics used to follow performance are robust

• Coach, Train & Support manager to guarantee a great management experience for each employee in line with our culture of performance and care

• Own the overall training plan for the company (€100k+ budget) to ensure we have the right team & skills to address business challenges

• As the first US-hire in the HR team, you’ll focus specifically on the US, ensuring we can provide a best-in-class employee experience. Also, you’ll support some operational tasks in the US.

You'll work with all teams and have a lot of exposure to the CEO (also based in the Boston office), COO and other excom members.

Our vision on performance: We believe Performance does not describe who you are; you are not an overperformer or an underperformer, performance is related to a person/group with a defined context & timeline. Everyone can perform; it’s about finding the right context for them to do so - this role is all about how to create this context, both through global (culture, review process, salary grid, etc.) and individual (job description, understanding someone's specific context, training etc.) initiatives.

About the profile

Sonio is a mission-driven company, so interest in our mission is critical. Other requirements are:

• Experience in strategy (start-up, consulting, etc.) - you can make decisions & challenge managers’ decisions, taking into account company strategy, budget, people dynamics etc.

• Strong understanding of the US employment market for tech start-ups

• Strong cultural fit between impact, performance and care

• Strong empathy, ability to support & challenge in a caring and supportive way

• Strong interest in people topics, ideally some experience with communication, feedback, performance or other people framework

Location: Boston, this role could fit someone based in Paris with a strong knowledge of the US market

Salary: $120k - $130k + 10% Bonus

Sonio’s Benefits

⚕️Health Insurance (Medical plan, vision, dental) - up to 30,000$ per year + FSA & HSA

👵 401(k) - up 4% of your salary matched

⛑️ Life Insurance - covering 2 times your salary, up to $200k

🐣 An attractive Parental Policy for primary and secondary caregivers

🏝️ 20 PTO + 1 week offered between Christmas and New Year

🖥️ Offices in Boston (HQ) & New York (incl. free breakfast, drinks & gym)

⏰ Flexible hours & remote policies

🚎 Commuter Benefits

✈️ One offsite per year in France & regular team building with US team

🚀 Ongoing trainings and continuous opportunities for professional growth and development, specifically unlimited access to coaching

We move fast and aspire to be transparent over the process - our objective is that the process from the first chat to an offer is no longer than a month. We also aspire to give an answer to every application in a week - if you have not heard from us, please follow up at [email protected].