VP, People

Overview

Lead the People function at a public, remote-first company scaling from roughly 500 to 1000 employees while expanding internationally. Build the systems for engagement, culture, communications, retention, succession and manager development, and run a small HR Operations and strategic HRBP team to deliver them. Reports to the CHRO.

What you'll do

• Design and run an engagement program where leaders own the outcomes, not HR.
• Document and adopt how remote teams work across geographies and time zones.
• Build recognition that reaches people in every geography and time zone.
• Set up a standing employee and leader communications cadence that gives line of sight to the strategy.
• Design onboarding, team rituals and the in-person moments (offsites, team gatherings) a year.
• Build the retention model and succession plan, including identifying at-risk people and building the bench under key roles.
• Rebuild manager development for distributed teams, including internal mobility, cross-functional movement and learning.
• Redefine manager expectations as spans widen and AI reshapes teams.
• Partner with the AI Transformation Leader on how AI changes work design, job architecture and team structure.
• Run and develop a small HR Operations and strategic HRBP team, keeping the operational foundation clean as the company scales internationally.

What you'll need

• Experience operating teams outside the United States, through EOR or owned entities, including managing the reality of employing people in other countries.
• Experience scaling a company through roughly the 500-1000 employee range, with international expansion partway through.
• A builder who builds with people: has written the framework, run the session or built the thing recently, and brought the team along.
• Develops people through work rather than separately from it.
• Uses AI agents in daily work.
• Leads a team while still close enough to the work to judge its quality.
• Cares about making a company a great place to work across distributed geographies, time zones and cultures.
• Comfortable working within a public company, including comp committee timing, disclosure windows and audit season, without having run a proxy.
• Comes from a strong mid-sized technology company rather than a large enterprise, with experience building under scarcity.
• A first-time VP ready to step up, or a second-time VP who wants to build rather than administer.
• A strong communicator who over-communicates by instinct.

Details

• Remote, US-based role.
• Salary range $210,000 - $230,000, plus 30% target annual bonus and RSUs.
• Reports to the CHRO.
• Pay transparency: base pay ranges are shared for all US-based postings regardless of state; final offer depends on candidate location, skills, depth of experience and relevant licenses or credentials.