# Head of People

**Company:** [Coram AI](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/coram-ai)
**Location:** Sunnyvale, CA
**Role:** People Ops
**Experience:** 8+ years
**Skills:** people operations, Compliance, Performance Management, Employee Relations, compensation, benefits, workplace operations, Organizational Design, Workforce Planning, office management
**Posted:** 2026-07-16

> Build and lead the People Operations function for a rapidly scaling AI startup. Own employee lifecycle, compliance across multiple countries, performance management, culture preservation, and workplace operations while partnering with leadership on org design and talent decisions.

## Job Description

## 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.

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