Director, People

Fluidstack•Austin, TX

6d•$269,000 - $414,000

About The Position

Fluidstack exists to make humanity more free by building civilization-scale infrastructure for AI. We are singularly focused on delivering 10 to 100s of GWs of compute faster than anyone else, rethinking every layer of the stack. We acquire power, design and build data centers, and operate them. Speed and scale are our key differentiators. We hire people who care deeply about this problem space and operate with extreme ownership, velocity, first principles, and a love of the game, putting in long hours at high intensity to push the frontier forward. The People Team is responsible for building the people function from scratch to keep up with 10x growth, reinventing people operations around AI, and owning the culture and comms as the company scales. We grew headcount 10x in the last year and are not slowing down. The team builds systems, programs, and the team from nothing and makes them work before they are outgrown. AI is being put at the core of how the function runs so a small team can support many times its number. Internal comms, events, and rhythm are managed to keep a multi-site team that's growing fast bound to a shared culture.

Requirements

You've built or rebuilt a people function at a company growing this fast.
You've implemented people systems and made them stick past the launch email.
You give executives hard feedback and keep the relationship.
You've handled multi-state and multi-country employment complexity firsthand.
You automate before you hire, and can point to where.

Nice To Haves

Hyper-growth infrastructure or deep tech.
Compensation design.
HRIS implementations.
Employment counsel coordination.

Responsibilities

Build and lead the people function through 10x headcount growth: the systems, the programs, and the team.
Own the employee lifecycle end to end, onboarding, comp cycles, performance, offboarding, built to scale before they break.
Put AI at the core of people operations so a lean team supports a multiple of its size.
Partner with leadership on org design, leveling, and the calls that shape culture.
Own employment compliance across states and countries as sites multiply.