Director, HR Operations & Data

Relativity Space • Long Beach, CA

13h

About The Position

This role serves as a critical backbone of the People & Talent function, with accountability for workforce data integrity, operational excellence, and well-controlled processes that support a complex, rapidly growing organization. You will oversee the systems, workflows, and infrastructure that power the end-to-end workforce lifecycle — spanning candidate and hiring operations through onboarding, employee changes, and offboarding. In close partnership with Employment Legal, People Compliance & ER , Finance, and IT, you will translate business and regulatory requirements into practical, scalable solutions. This is a highly cross-functional and high-visibility role. The work directly supports company growth, hiring velocity, financial accuracy, and audit readiness. Success in this position requires strong operational judgment, comfort navigating ambiguity, and the ability to balance rigor, speed, and employee experience. As Relativity continues to scale, you will play a central role in building resilient processes, strengthening controls, and ensuring our People infrastructure grows alongside the business. Optimize People & Talent systems to ensuring reliability, seamless workflows, and strong user experience while exploring opportunities for automation and simplicity. Own workforce data integrity end-to-end, proactively mitigating risks that could impact compliance, reporting, or organizational trust.

Requirements

• 1 0 + years of experience in People Operations or related functions, including lead ership.
• Build ing , mentor ing , and lead ing high-performing teams across people and recruiting operations .
• Designs, implements, and continuously strengthens critical processes and internal controls, with a focus on auditability and long-term scalability.
• Brings deep experience designing, building, and scaling People & Talent processes, systems, and operational frameworks in high-growth environments.
• Possesses a strong understanding of HR operational controls, compliance requirements, and audit readiness; SOX experience strongly preferred.
• Exhibits exceptional judgment, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to identifying risks and strengthening operational rigor.
• Operates effectively in ambiguous, evolving environments, balancing rigor, speed, and employee experience.
• Extensive experience developing reporting capabilities that drive enterprise-wide value and suppor t strategic decision making.
• Deep data visualization and dashboard architecture experience.

Nice To Haves

• Experience of optimizing complex HR processes at scale.
• Workday subject matter expert.

Responsibilities

• Optimize People & Talent systems to ensuring reliability, seamless workflows, and strong user experience while exploring opportunities for automation and simplicity.
• Own workforce data integrity end-to-end, proactively mitigating risks that could impact compliance, reporting, or organizational trust.

Benefits

• Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Director
• Education Level: No Education Listed