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Your Compensation Strategy is Your Pricing Strategy: Part II - Building and Scaling Your Framework
Turn your compensation strategy into a system. In Part II of our series, learn how to build a scalable, defensible, and flexible compensation framework…
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Jessie Zwaan
Podcast: How to Hire for People Ops as a Product Team
Learn how to hire for a People Ops team that operates like a product org. This guide covers the five essential skills, how to find T-shaped talent, real…
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Your Compensation Strategy is Your Pricing Strategy: Part I - Building for Your Ideal Customer
👋 This is a free edition of the MPL Build Newsletter—resources for running your people team like a product team.
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MPL Build

May 2025

The Compensation Engine: Building Your Pay-for-Performance System
Learn how to turn your performance reviews into fair, financially sound compensation decisions. This deep dive breaks down how to design a scalable…
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Jessie Zwaan
Podcast: Four ways to build "HR squads"
Discover how forward-thinking HR leaders are ditching traditional org charts and adopting agile squad structures. Learn how to build cross-functional HR…
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Building Your Performance Management Product: A People Ops as Product Approach
Performance and compensation often clash, but what if we treated People Ops like product management? This blog breaks down a real-world framework built…
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Jessie Zwaan
From Interview Insights to Product Hypotheses: A Guide for HR Leaders
As an HR leader taking on product management responsibilities, you're sitting on a goldmine of information in qualitative user interviews, meetings, and…
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Podcast: Nobody gets People Ops as a Product 100% right (and that's ok)
Go listen to our recent episode on The Modern People Leader where we talked about “human ops” versus “people ops”, the sprint planning process for my…
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Understanding ELTV - The Hidden Metric Capable of Revolutionizing People Operations
Employee Lifetime Value (ELTV) is changing the game for HR leaders. Learn how to calculate it, boost your ELTV:CAC ratio, and finally speak the language…
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April 2025

Effective Data Visualization for People Ops Metrics: Telling Stories with Numbers
In my previous post, I shared my top ten favorite metrics for People Operations teams adopting a product mindset. But having these metrics is only half…
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Jessie Zwaan
Top 10 Metrics in People Ops as a Product
👋 This is a free edition of the MPL Build Newsletter—resources for running your people team like a product team.
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How to Hire for People Ops as a Product
In today’s market, we are finding that all teams (not just HR teams) are being asked to do more than ever.
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Jessie Zwaan
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