Head of People

Logixboard•Seattle, WA

4d•$140,000 - $165,000•Onsite

About The Position

Logixboard builds software for the freight forwarding industry. Our platform spans two areas: a white-labeled supply chain visibility product that freight forwarders offer to their customers, and AI-powered tools that automate the repetitive data entry and document handling work that freight operators do every day. Together, these products serve both sides of the logistics relationship — the customer tracking their cargo and the operator managing it. We are a distributed, product-driven company. We value high ownership, thoughtful decision-making, and building software that genuinely makes freight professionals' work better.

Requirements

10+ years of progressive HR/People experience, ideally including time in a startup or other environment where you've had broad ownership and limited infrastructure around you
Currently a senior HR Business Partner, HR Manager, People Operations leader, or similar, with real experience in fast-moving, ambiguous environments
Looking for end-to-end ownership rather than a narrower functional lane
Confident in your ability to learn, own, and execute against what's ahead
Comfortable recruiting and genuinely willing to jump into hiring when the business needs it
Would rather solve a genuinely ambiguous problem than apply a policy off the shelf
Want to work closely with a CEO as a real thought partner on the business, not just the HR function

Nice To Haves

Operated without a playbook before, in a live, complicated situation, and gotten to a sound outcome anyway
Default to judgment, not rigid policy or reflexive legal escalation
Can lay out risk as a spectrum — the options, the tradeoffs, the likely downside — and still make a clear recommendation
Hold employee empathy and company needs in the same hand, without letting either one crowd out the other
Genuinely willing to do it all: the unglamorous ops work and the high-stakes judgment calls alike
Can move comfortably between strategic thinking and execution without seeing either one as beneath or outside your role
Prior Head of People experience isn't required. What matters more is that you've developed the judgment, range, and confidence to own the function.

Responsibilities

Advise managers and employees through employee relations issues, conflict, feedback conversations, and performance concerns
Build and run the practical programs that make a company function well: performance reviews, compensation cycles, onboarding, benefits, and core policies
Own the day-to-day HR operations that keep things running, including benefits, payroll coordination, employee changes, vendors, and compliance
Improve the systems behind the work where it genuinely helps — without treating process as the job itself
Partner directly with the CEO on nuanced people decisions and business tradeoffs
Handle ambiguity: research unfamiliar issues, form a judgment call, and know when it's time to bring in outside counsel or expertise
Navigate people questions across multiple states and countries, including employees supported through PEO/EOR arrangements
Own or support recruiting as business needs require — including sourcing, screening, managing interview processes, partnering with external recruiters, extending offers, and helping close candidates
Do the full range of the work — from writing an offer letter to designing a performance management framework — without expecting it to be handed off to someone else