Head of People

Responsibilities

• Maintain a strong pulse on organizational health, employee sentiment, management quality, and cultural issues.
• Preserve Coram’s culture of high velocity, ownership, candor, and high standards as the company scales.
• Build and own the full People Operations function, including policies, systems, tools, and processes.
• Own the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, performance management, promotions, employee relations, terminations, and off-boarding.
• Ensure employment compliance across the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
• Build scalable processes for compensation, benefits, leave, documentation, investigations, and workplace policies.
• Partner with executives and managers on organizational design, workforce planning, team health, and difficult people decisions.
• Improve management quality through practical tools, coaching, and clear performance expectations.
• Own office management, workplace operations, facilities, and employee experience across all locations.
• Partner closely with Recruiting, Finance, Legal, IT, and company leadership.

Skills and Qualifications

• Experience leading People or People Operations at a rapidly growing startup or scale-up.
• Experience supporting an organization of at least 300 employees or helping a company scale through a similar stage.
• Demonstrated experience building a People function, not just operating within an established one.
• Strong experience across People Operations, compliance, performance management, employee relations, compensation, benefits, and workplace operations.
• Experience operating across multiple countries, ideally including the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
• Strong judgment, direct communication, and the ability to handle sensitive issues with discretion and decisiveness.
• Comfortable operating strategically while remaining highly hands-on.
• Strong startup mindset and ability to build lightweight processes without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.
• Candidates whose experience is primarily at very large, highly structured companies are unlikely to be a fit.

Compensation and Benefits

• Reports to the Chief Executive Officer.
• A competitive compensation with regular performance reviews.
• Equity in a rapidly growing company.
• The opportunity to take real ownership of your work and help shape the product.
• Frequent team socials, dinners, and offsites.
• The latest tech and tools to help you build your best work.
• A sharp, mission-driven team focused on solving meaningful problems.