People Lead

Build a high-performance organization

• Partner with exec team and functional leaders on org design, workforce planning, and leadership needs as the company scales.
• Clarify hiring standards, promotion expectations, and talent bar across teams.
• Design and evolve our performance management philosophy.
• Coach managers to set clear expectations, give direct feedback and have hard conversations with confidence, and address issues early.
• Build manager habits and operating cadences that reinforce high standards without adding unnecessary process.
• Partner with leadership on compensation, promotions, and retention for top performers.

Build operational excellence

• Own benefits, payroll coordination, compliance, and core people operations.
• Ensure employment practices scale cleanly across a growing company.
• Partner with legal counsel on investigations, employment matters, and policy development.
• Build lightweight systems that make the company run better, not slower.

What we’re looking for

• Has helped scale a high-performing company through rapid growth (for example, ~200 to 500+ employees).
• Has significant experience coaching managers through performance management and difficult personnel decisions.
• Has personally led employee investigations, complex offboardings, and sensitive employee relations situations.
• Knows when to introduce process and when not to.
• Is trusted by both executives and individual contributors.
• Has exceptional judgment, discretion, and emotional intelligence.
• Cares deeply about building a culture of high performance rather than avoiding hard conversations.
• Can move comfortably between strategic discussions with leadership and hands-on operational work.

What we offer

• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Remote friendly with WeWork access
• Unlimited PTO, shared downtime during the federal holiday calendar, and company-wide off time at the end of each year
• 401(k) match
• Lifestyle & wellbeing stipends
• Salary top-up during military reserve duty
• Fully paid parental leave
• Child and pet care reimbursement during travel