Talent & People Operations Manager

Promptfoo•San Francisco, CA

21d•Hybrid

About The Position

Promptfoo is the leading AI security testing platform, helping 250,000+ developers build secure, reliable AI applications. Backed by Insight Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, we help the world’s largest enterprises adapt AI-specific pentesting techniques to your application, providing automated red teaming, vulnerability scanning, and continuous monitoring for LLM-based systems. You will own our talent engine and core people operations as we scale from 17 to 50+ employees over the next 12 months. You'll run end-to-end recruiting, sourcing, closing, and coordinating external recruiters, build the essential people infrastructure (onboarding, comp, performance) that keeps a fast-growing team aligned and effective, and help shape culture deliberately as we grow.

Requirements

5-7+ years in People Ops and recruiting, with at least one early-stage tour (Series A-C)
Proven track record building recruiting engines, including sourcing candidates / recruiters, structuring interviewing processes, and closing candidates, and raising hiring quality at startups
Experience managing external recruiting agencies
California compliance literacy: harassment training, pay-range transparency, wage-hour basics, CPRA requirements
Comp and equity fluency with Carta, Pave, or similar benchmark tools; experience with HRIS platforms like Rippling and ATS systems like Ashby
Full-cycle recruiting experience: sourcing, closing candidates, structured interviews
Strong operations skills: ability to manage multiple moving pieces and prevent things from falling through cracks
Clear, concise communicator, data-driven, and high agency

Nice To Haves

experience with hybrid teams
technical recruiting for engineering roles

Responsibilities

Recruiting and hiring Own end-to-end recruiting: process, pipeline, scheduling, scorecards, interview kits, SLAs, weekly funnel reviews
Manage and coordinate external recruiters: negotiate agreements, run weekly syncs
Track metrics: pass-through rates, time-to-hire, offer acceptance, quality-of-hire, cost-per-hire, first-90-day ramp, regretted attrition
People ops and compliance Maintain HR compliance
Run hybrid onboarding with run-books for in-office and remote hires. Build 30/60/90 templates
Manage PEO relationship, handbook, and benefits
Coordinate team events, manage travel logistics, handle miscellaneous people ops
Comp, leveling, and performance Build leveling framework and pay bands
Document promotion criteria and refresh/equity policy
Implement light quarterly reviews/formal annual reviews, ongoing feedback loops, and manager toolkits
Partner with Finance on headcount planning
Culture and coordination Design rituals that reinforce company values and make hybrid work effective
Run engagement pulses Host candidate onsites and coordinate team offsites