People / HR Lead (Fractional)
Compound Finance is a decentralized finance (DeFi) protocol that provides a global market for capital, enabling users to earn yield on deposited assets and borrow against crypto collateral. It serves crypto asset holders and DeFi users seeking to earn yield, access liquidity, or borrow against established digital assets like ETH, WBTC, and stablecoins.
About Compound Finance
Compound is a DeFi lending and borrowing protocol that allows users to deposit crypto assets to earn market-driven yield with instant withdrawals, and to borrow against curated collateral assets at competitive rates with instant liquidity. Loans are backed by excess collateral to reduce lending risk. The protocol has facilitated over $480B in total deposits and loans and $57B in all-time loans over more than six years of operation. Security is a core focus, with independent audits, comprehensive testing, continuous security reviews, and a bug bounty program backed by Immunefi offering rewards up to $1M. The Compound Foundation supports the long-term growth of the ecosystem through strategic planning, ecosystem development, partnerships, governance coordination, and community engagement, alongside teams focused on risk & capital management, engineering, and protocol security.
Skills
About the Role
You will build the Foundation's practical people infrastructure during its early scale-up. You'll enable fast, high-quality hiring while establishing the minimum necessary people operations, including role scorecards, interview loops, EOR/vendor coordination, onboarding, benefits, compensation process and core policies. You'll help the Foundation recruit exceptional talent without creating corporate HR bureaucracy. The engagement begins on a fractional basis, with scope to ramp to full-time as the Foundation scales. You will report to the COO and work closely with functional hiring leads, the Executive Director, Finance, Legal/Ops and EOR/recruiting providers.
Requirements
- 7+ years People, HR, Talent or People Operations experience in high-growth technology, fintech, crypto or startup environments
- Track record building hiring processes and onboarding systems from a lean, early-stage operating base
- Experience supporting senior, technical, finance, security, legal/ops, BD and marketing searches
- Experience with global EOR/contractor models, benefits, payroll coordination and cross-border personnel issues
- Strong understanding of compensation bands, offer construction and closing high-quality candidates
- Comfort operating with discretion around sensitive personnel, compensation and performance matters
Responsibilities
- Own recruiting operations: job descriptions, candidate pipelines, scheduling, feedback loops and references
- Support functional leads as hiring DRIs while ensuring quality, speed and consistent decision-making
- Coordinate EOR, benefits, onboarding, contractor documentation and personnel files
- Build a simple candidate experience that reflects the Foundation's standards and pace
- Support compensation bands, offer mechanics, approvals and negotiation materials
- Create lightweight people policies: expenses/travel inputs, onboarding, confidentiality, conflicts, access/offboarding and performance basics
- Maintain HR data confidentiality and ensure appropriate handling of sensitive compensation and personnel information
- Help reinforce operating principles: high autonomy, high standards, ownership, one team and precise communication