Director of HR
About The Position
As Director of People at vCluster Labs, you will turn people strategy into practical programs, tools, and infrastructure. Reporting to the VP of People, you will help build a modern, AI-first people function for a rapidly growing company with employees in 21 countries. You will develop scalable approaches that allow a small People team to support the company as it grows. The role spans strategic people programs, AI-enabled tooling, global employment compliance, operational infrastructure, leadership development, and culture. You will build and improve programs such as compensation reviews and performance cycles; extend existing AI tools and agents and create new workflows; manage employment compliance across countries, including Germany; oversee the EOR setup and Rippling HRIS; and develop leadership and culture programs for a distributed workforce. vCluster Labs is a venture-backed, remote-first company headquartered in San Francisco. It builds infrastructure software for AI cloud providers and AI factories and is the company behind the open-source vCluster technology.
Requirements
- At least 8 years of experience in HR or People Operations.
- At least 3 years building global people programs at a US-headquartered, high-growth technology company.
- Direct experience managing employment for a German workforce, including contracts, notice periods, works councils, data privacy, and terminations.
- Hands-on EOR and entity experience across the US, EMEA, and other regions.
- Experience supporting a remote team across many time zones and running programs, training, and employee support asynchronously.
- Experience running Rippling as an HRIS and payroll platform and keeping employee, payroll, and ATS data aligned.
- Daily use of AI tools and experience building workflows, agents, or automations that replace manual people work.
- Experience building leadership training and culture programs from scratch and delivering them with measurable outcomes.
Nice To Haves
- Experience employing people through Rippling's EOR offering.
- Comfort with no-code automation platforms, APIs, or light scripting to connect people systems.
- Experience building global pay bands or administering equity across multiple jurisdictions.
- Experience at an open-source, developer tools, or infrastructure company.
- Working knowledge of visas and work authorization in the US and EU.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the VP of People to turn people strategy into programs, taking initiatives from idea through rollout and measuring and iterating on their outcomes.
- Develop and run programs such as compensation reviews, performance cycles, and other new people initiatives.
- Extend existing AI tools and agents used across recruiting and people operations, and build tools for onboarding, policy questions, manager support, and reporting.
- Own employment compliance across countries where the company operates, working with outside counsel on contracts, statutory benefits, working-time rules, works council obligations, and terminations.
- Manage the company's EOR setup and work with Finance to assess when a country should have its own entity.
- Keep Rippling accurate as the system of record and build policies and employee lifecycle processes that can scale as the company grows.
- Create and deliver leadership training for managers across regions, including practical tools for feedback, performance conversations, and managing distributed teams.
- Design and run global culture programs and events, including company offsites, local gatherings, and remote rituals.
- Measure which culture programs employees value and discontinue those that do not provide value.
Benefits
- Competitive compensation package, including equity.
- Health, dental, vision, and life insurance, including plans for eligible dependents; benefits vary by country.
- Flexible working schedule, with emphasis on results rather than fixed clock-in and clock-out times.
- Flexibility in where employees work, with the work environment adjustable as circumstances change.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Director
Education Level
No Education Listed
