People / HR Lead
Compound Finance operates decentralized markets for earning yield, accessing liquidity, and borrowing against digital assets. Its services support deposits, lending, and overcollateralized borrowing through the Compound protocol.
Maintainer signals as of 8/12/2026
About Compound Foundation
Compound Finance provides secure, audited markets where users can deposit digital assets to earn market-driven yield or borrow against excess collateral. The platform offers liquidity across assets including ETH, WBTC, and stablecoins, with instant withdrawals or borrowing subject to available liquidity. Compound also supports protocol security, governance, ecosystem development, risk and capital management, engineering, partnerships, and community engagement.
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Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will build practical people infrastructure for an early-stage organization, own recruiting operations, manage candidate pipelines and interview processes, coordinate EOR and contractor documentation, support onboarding and benefits administration, develop compensation bands and offer materials, create lightweight people policies, and protect sensitive personnel information. You will also improve candidate workflows using AI, automation, and effective tools.
Requirements
- 7+ years of experience in People, HR, Talent, or People Operations in high-growth technology, fintech, crypto, or startup environments.
- Experience building hiring processes and onboarding systems from a lean, early-stage operating base.
- Experience supporting senior, technical, finance, security, legal/ops, business development, and marketing searches.
- Experience with global EOR and contractor models, benefits, payroll coordination, and cross-border personnel issues.
- Strong understanding of compensation bands, offer construction, and closing high-quality candidates.
- Discretion when handling sensitive personnel, compensation, and performance matters.
- Strong operational discipline without process inflation.
- Excellent candidate judgment.
- High responsiveness, discretion, and precision in written communications.
- High autonomy and high standards.
- Precise written communication.
- Strong judgment in ambiguous, fast-moving environments.
- Experience using AI, automation, and tools to improve quality and efficiency.
- Crypto, protocol, foundation, or DAO ecosystem experience is preferred.
- Experience hiring distributed teams across the US, UK, EU, and crypto-friendly jurisdictions is preferred.
- Familiarity with Notion-based recruiting systems, EOR platforms, and AI-assisted candidate workflows is preferred.
Responsibilities
- Own recruiting operations, including job descriptions, candidate pipelines, scheduling, feedback loops, and references.
- Support functional hiring leads while ensuring quality, speed, and consistent decision-making.
- Coordinate EOR, benefits, onboarding, contractor documentation, and personnel files.
- Build a simple candidate experience.
- Support compensation bands, offer mechanics, approvals, and negotiation materials.
- Create lightweight people policies covering expenses and travel inputs, onboarding, confidentiality, conflicts, access and offboarding, and performance basics.
- Maintain HR data confidentiality and ensure appropriate handling of sensitive compensation and personnel information.
- Use AI, automation, and better tools to increase quality, pace, and leverage.