Head of People
We're looking for a Head of People who has done this before and built the people function from the ground up at a high-growth technical company and knows what matters at this stage.
This is not a traditional HR role but it's a builder-operator who owns the full people function: org design, comp & leveling, performance management, culture, and recruiting too. The recruiting team will report into this role.
Responsibilities
- Design and implement compensation, leveling, and career ladder frameworks from scratch
- Establish lightweight, high-signal performance management systems
- Build onboarding, offboarding, and talent development programs that actually scale
- Define and reinforce company culture: remote-first, distributed, high-trust
- Partner with founders and leadership on org design and hiring strategy
- Own core people operations: benefits, payroll, employee relations
- Build and lead the recruiting function: hire and manage IC recruiters, own hiring from ~60 → 200+ without lowering the bar
Requirements
- Have been the first or second People hire at a company that scaled from ~40 to 150+ people
- Strong People Ops generalist: comp & leveling, performance cycles, employee relations, onboarding/offboarding
- Remote-first experience is critical given our distributed culture
- Founder-friendly and low-ego; comfortable being both strategic and rolling up your sleeves
- Enough seniority to operate autonomously; no expectation of building a large team immediately
- Background in a technical company (AI, infrastructure, devtools, or engineering-heavy org)
- High agency, strong commercial mindset, will push back on leadership when needed
Bonus points
- Built a comp framework and leveling system from scratch
- Navigated a company through a period of rapid headcount growth
- Can speak to specific programs you've built: onboarding, performance reviews, manager training
- Knows how to build culture in a remote/hybrid environment
- Comfortable operating without a lot of HR infrastructure in place yet
- Prior Head of People or strong #2 stepping into a first seat
- Experience competing for top-tier AI or engineering talent
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