People / HR Lead

Skills

About the Role

Build the hiring and people engine for a small, high-performing Foundation team. Establish recruiting processes, onboarding, EOR and vendor coordination, benefits, compensation processes, and core people policies while supporting early organizational scale-up.

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/operations, 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, candidate judgment, responsiveness, autonomy, written communication, and judgment in ambiguous environments.
• Experience using AI, automation, and tools to improve quality and efficiency.

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, travel inputs, onboarding, confidentiality, conflicts, access, offboarding, and performance basics.
• Maintain HR data confidentiality and appropriately handle sensitive compensation and personnel information.
• Use AI, automation, and better tools to increase quality, pace, and leverage.