People Partner

Percepta • New York, NY

1d • $200,000 - $350,000 • Hybrid

About The Position

Percepta is seeking its first dedicated People hire, a People Partner, to own the full employee experience from pre-boarding to career growth. This role involves authoring the people playbook for a rapidly scaling company, moving from 20 to 80 employees and beyond. The ideal candidate will have imaginative and flexible ideas about what a best-in-class people function looks like, strong opinions on creating a great work environment, and the ability to build light infrastructure that serves the present while accommodating future growth. This role will create and launch V1 of all people programs and operations, understanding that they will need to be reconfigured as the company scales to 400 employees. The People Partner will build consensus, creatively address the needs of a hypergrowth company, and establish internal infrastructure that sets Percepta apart, aligning with the company's values and fostering seamless teamwork.

Requirements

• Experience building a people function (or a significant part of one) from scratch, either at a startup or as an early operator.
• Ability to point to specific systems designed, not just administered programs.
• Strong, specific opinions about culture, performance, and compensation, with a story of a contrarian call that proved correct.
• Willingness to perform unglamorous operational work such as onboarding, offboarding, benefits administration, and immigration paperwork.
• Comfort with ambiguity and reversal, and the ability to build something knowing it will be reconfigured.
• Direct communication style capable of handling hard conversations without losing clarity.
• Understanding that people strategy is inseparable from company strategy and acting as a true partner to the business.
• Deep understanding of the tech, startup, and AI space with informed opinions on best practices and competitiveness.

Responsibilities

• Define excellence for the company today and for a 1000-person organization.
• Amplify company values and evolve culture, preserving unique aspects of a small company while managing necessary changes during scaling.
• Build a data-driven, AI-driven people organization from the ground up, establishing headcount, attrition, hiring funnel, and compensation dashboards.
• Develop new managers by building the first performance management system and manager training, including frameworks, feedback rhythms, and coaching.
• Launch and nurture Employee Resource Groups (ERGs), create new manager training, evolve the onboarding program, and implement other programmatic initiatives.
• Serve as the point of contact for employee relations, disputes, compensation discussions, and direct feedback, building processes for these areas.
• Build the compensation philosophy and equity framework from scratch, benchmark against the market, and create and shape compensation bands as the company scales.

What This Job Offers

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