Talent Acquisition, Culture & Organizational Development Manager

🦅 Build the Team That Builds Birdman- TAKE FLIGHT!

At Birdman, we’re building more than a fast-growing plant-based food and supplements company — we’re building a high-performance organization with a strong sense of purpose. From Mexico to the world, we lead the category in creating products that fuel people to become their best version and protect the planet, and we believe that exceptional teams are the foundation of that mission.

As we continue to scale, we’re looking for a Talent Acquisition, Culture & Organizational Development Manager to own our strategic people agenda. This role exists to build exceptional teams through top-tier recruiting, and to create the environment where the right people can thrive, grow, and perform at their best.

🎯 The Candidate

This is a hands-on, high-impact role for someone who believes in a high-performance, happy-people culture, values meritocracy, and wants to design the systems, ways of working, and leadership practices that help the best people do the best, most impactful work of their careers.

If you’re excited about setting a high bar, building great teams, and shaping how an organization scales through talent — this role is for you.

🎯 Role Overview

Reporting to the Head of People, The Talent Acquisition, Culture & Organizational Development Manager owns Birdman’s strategic people agenda, with a clear mandate to build and sustain an exceptional team through outstanding talent acquisition. This role is responsible not only for bringing in the right people, but also for building and shaping the systems, environment, ways of working, and people practices that allow them to thrive, grow, and perform at their best within the company.

Beyond hiring, this position leads talent management and organizational development efforts, ensuring that clear expectations, meaningful development paths, and strong leadership support are in place as the company scales. Central to this role is the design and stewardship of a truly meritocratic system—one where high standards are clear, strong performance is recognized and rewarded, continuous improvement is expected, and people are given honest feedback to grow.

Within this context, the role actively champions a high-performance, happy-people culture, where ambition, accountability, learning, and wellbeing reinforce each other, and where the best people are able to excel, progress, and make an outsized impact—while ensuring that those who are not the right fit are supported in making thoughtful transitions, in a fair and respectful way.

By aligning people strategy, culture, and enabling systems with Birdman’s business priorities, this role helps turn great talent into lasting impact and organizational excellence.

📌 Key Responsibilities

🚀 Recruitment

• Own end-to-end talent acquisition to attract and select exceptional talent aligned with Birdman’s performance standards and values, while ensuring timely coverage of headcount needs across the organization.
• Balance quality and speed, building great teams while maintaining full staffing and operational continuity, including completing required squads and crews.
• Partner with leaders to define role needs, assess for capability and potential, and ensure consistently strong hiring decisions.
• Continuously raise the hiring bar through structured interviews, assessments, and data-driven improvement.

🌱 Onboarding, Learning & Enablement

• Design and lead onboarding experiences that set clear expectations, accelerate time-to-impact, and integrate new hires into Birdman’s high-performance, happy-people culture.
• Enable continuous learning and skill development through meaningful learning journeys, leadership development, and on-the-job enablement.
• Foster a learning culture focused on real capability building and business impact.

📊 Performance, Growth & Career Development

• Design and steward a meritocratic performance system where goals, expectations, and success criteria are clear and consistently applied.
• Tie performance, feedback, and results directly to growth, progression, and career development.
• Enable leaders to give timely, honest, and high-quality feedback that drives accountability, learning, and advancement.
• Ensure strong performance is recognized and rewarded, and underperformance is addressed constructively and respectfully.
• Define career paths and progression frameworks that clarify how individuals grow in scope, responsibility, and impact.

💚 Culture, Engagement & Team Experience

• Champion a high-performance, happy-people culture, where ambition, accountability, learning, wellbeing, and results reinforce each other.
• Design and lead initiatives that strengthen integration, collaboration, team connection, and a sense of belonging.
• Build meaningful engagement and team-building experiences that support trust, motivation, and sustainable performance.
• Create listening mechanisms and feedback loops that inform continuous improvement of the employee experience.
• Ensure culture is consistently reinforced through leadership behaviors, rituals, and everyday ways of working.

🏭 Organizational Development & Succession

• Shape organizational structures, roles, and ways of working that enable speed, clarity, accountability, and scale.
• Partner with leadership to evolve the organization in line with business strategy and growth stages.
• Define and steward succession planning for critical roles, ensuring continuity and leadership readiness over time.
• Embed ownership, performance, and continuous improvement into how teams operate day to day.

Requirements:
🧠 Essential Requirements

🎓 Background & Experience

• 6+ years of experience in talent acquisition and cultural and organizational development management, ideally in high-performance environments (fast-growing companies, category leaders, top consulting, or startups).
• Demonstrated experience building and scaling teams, not just filling roles—understanding what good performance and potential looks like and hiring for it.
• Hands-on experience designing and operating performance and feedback systems, including setting expectations, evaluating performance, and addressing underperformance constructively.
• Proven ability to develop people and leaders, through coaching, feedback, and clear growth frameworks.
• Experience partnering closely with business leaders to solve real organizational and performance challenges.

🧭 Mindset & Judgment

• Strong business judgment, with the ability to link people and organizational decisions to business outcomes.
• Executive-level communication skills, able to engage credibly with senior and C-level leaders on strategic topics.
• Ability to synthesize complex people and organizational issues into clear, actionable recommendations for executives.
• Clear point of view on high performance, with the confidence to uphold standards through honest feedback and sound judgment.
• Comfort influencing and constructively challenging leaders in fast-moving, high-growth environments.

⚙️ Core Capabilities

• Strong capability in hiring for performance and potential, including structured interviews, assessment, and decision-making.
• Ability to give and coach others to give direct, honest, and high-quality feedback.
• Solid understanding of how performance, growth, culture, and organizational design interact in practice.

🌱 Desired (Nice-to-Have)

🎓 Education & Development

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (Business, Psychology, Engineering, HR, or similar).
• Master’s degree or advanced training in Organizational Development, Leadership, Strategy, or Business is a plus.

📜 Certifications & Formal Training

• Formal training or certification in performance management, leadership development, coaching, or organizational design (not required, but valued).
• Exposure to modern people practices (OKRs, continuous feedback, talent reviews, succession frameworks, etc.).

🏗️ Organizational & Scaling Experience

• Experience supporting organizations through periods of rapid growth, restructuring, or cultural transformation.
• Experience working in or alongside operations, manufacturing, or industrial environments is a plus.
• Exposure to international or multi-site organizations.

🌍 Languages

• Spanish (native or fluent).
• English (intermediate–advanced).

📢 Ready to Make an Impact?

If you want to shape the employee experience, influence leadership, and help build a purpose-driven organization — Birdman is your next flight 🦅