Head of People

What you’ll do

• This is not a traditional HR role. It is a builder-operator role focused on talent, systems, and scaling

• Build and own the recruiting engine as Head of Recruiting

• Hire and manage a team of IC recruiters

• Hire from ~50 → 200+ employees without lowering the talent bar

• Own core people operations: Onboarding and Offboarding, Benefits, Payroll

• Design and implement compensation, leveling, and career ladder frameworks

• Establish lightweight, high-signal performance management systems

• Build talent development systems including career paths, leveling, and internal mobility

• Define and reinforce company values through hiring and performance decisions

• Partner with founders and leadership on org design and hiring strategy

About you

• Have scaled a company from ~50 to 150–300 employees

• Experience in a technical company (AI, infrastructure, devtools, or engineering-heavy org)

• Have personally built:

  • Recruiting function

  • Compensation and leveling frameworks

  • Performance management systems

• Can operate as both Head of People and Head of Recruiting

• Strong talent judgment and ability to close senior candidates

• Experience overseeing technical hiring

• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and moving quickly

• Will push back on leadership when needed

• High agency, low ego, strong commercial mindset

• You’ve operated with full ownership, not as a support function

Bonus points

• Experience competing for top-tier AI or engineering talent

• Prior Head of People or strong #2 stepping into the role

• Experience working closely with founders and technical leadership

• Experience building people systems through rapid scaling (50 → 150+)

• Experience integrating teams from acquisitions