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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates extensive experience in leading and managing recruitment and HR teams, with a focus on building scalable hiring processes and ensuring compliance with employment laws. Proven ability to partner with executive leadership on strategic hiring and organizational design.
Highest-signal resume keywords
Full-Cycle RecruitingTalent ManagementEmployee RelationsPerformance ManagementHiring Metrics Tracking
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Hard Skills
RecruitmentPeople OperationsCompensation BandsOffer NegotiationOnboardingOffboardingHRIS AdministrationComplianceOrganizational DesignTeam Structure
Soft Skills
CoachingExcellent JudgmentDiscretionStrong Operating InstinctsPlayer-Coach Mindset
Industry Keywords
High-Growth Tech StartupsTalent AcquisitionEmployee Lifecycle OperationsVendor RelationshipsHiring Processes
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Lead and manage Recruiters and People Ops/HR professionals, including team leads
- Set goals, priorities, and capacity plans across Recruitment and People Ops/HR
- Coach, develop, and performance-manage the team
- Own organizational headcount planning
- Establish the team's operating rhythm, including standups, pipeline reviews, OKRs, and hiring sprints
- Build and improve hiring processes, interview loops, scorecards, calibration, and candidate experience
- Partner with the CEO and executive team on leadership hires
- Own full-cycle recruiting for key leadership roles, including sourcing, screening, and closing
- Build scalable sourcing channels and employer branding
- Track and report hiring metrics and adjust strategy
- Oversee employee lifecycle operations, including onboarding, offboarding, HRIS administration, benefits administration, and compliance
- Manage performance review, compensation banding, leveling, and promotion-cycle infrastructure
- Ensure employment-law compliance across applicable jurisdictions
- Oversee vendor relationships and escalation support
- Advise managers and leadership on org design, team structure, performance management, and employee relations
- Coach leaders internally and handle employee-relations issues
Requirements
What you’ll need- 12+ years in talent/recruiting and people roles, with real depth in talent
- Experience running people function at fast-paced, high-growth tech startups
- Proven experience managing a strong Talent and People team, ideally spanning both Recruitment and People Ops/HR
- Generalist range across offer negotiation, compensation bands, employee relations, and performance management
- Player-coach mindset
- Excellent judgment and discretion
- Strong operating instincts and ability to build lightweight, scalable systems
- Based in the Bay Area, with the ability to work from the Berkeley office at least 2 days every week
Benefits
Comp & perks- Generous compensation in cash and equity
- Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested
- Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture
- Flexible paid time off and Year-end break
- Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific
- 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific
- MacBook Pro delivered to your door
- One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc.
- Monthly meal stipend
- Monthly social meet-up stipend
- Annual health and wellness stipend
- Annual Learning stipend