Head of People
GreptileAI-powered Code company
San Francisco, United StatesDirector
Benchmark
Y Combinator
Initialized Capital
GTF Ventures
Cory Levy
Rich Aberman
People / HR / Recruitment
About the role
TL;DR
Lead people operations and organizational design to scale a rapidly growing tech company.
- •Greptile is seeking its first Head of People to build the organization that will scale the company from tens to hundreds of employees.
- •This role is not traditional HR and will work directly with founders to maintain talent density and avoid bureaucracy.
- •Key Responsibilities Partner with founders on organizational design, workforce planning, and management quality.
- •Build a rigorous performance system covering expectations, feedback, reviews, and promotions.
- •Own compensation and equity strategy, creating competitive and adaptable frameworks.
- •Handle sensitive employee matters with judgment, discretion, and humanity.
- •Build underlying employee lifecycle systems, including onboarding, benefits, and payroll.
- •Requirements 8+ years of experience in People, HR, talent, or organizational leadership at a rapidly growing tech company.
- •Experience scaling an organization from ~30 to 150+ employees.
- •Proven ability to act as both a strategic advisor and hands-on executor.
- •Experience managing difficult performance situations, investigations, and terminations.
- •Strong working knowledge of compensation, equity, employment practices, and People operations.
Required skills
Organizational DesignPerformance ManagementCompensation DesignTalent AcquisitionWorkforce PlanningEmployee RelationsPeople Operations
Nice-to-have skills
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsReactGitLinuxJiraConfluenceNotion
Domain expertise
developer-toolsaiproductivity
Tech stack
PythonJavaScriptTypeScriptNode.jsReactGitLinuxJiraConfluenceNotionSlackWorkdayGreenhouseLever