Vice President, People & Talent

Location: San Francisco, California office (HQ); hybrid role. Compensation details are provided for U.S.-based candidates.

Salary: $220,300–$300,000 USD base salary, plus equity and subsidized benefits.

Company

hirify.global builds modular AI infrastructure for edge computing, serving organizations across energy, defense, and other sectors in more than 60 countries.

What you will do

• Own global talent acquisition, workforce planning, structured hiring, and geographic expansion planning.
• Design compensation philosophy, level-based salary bands, equity programs, merit cycles, executive compensation, and global benefits.
• Build People Operations, compliance, payroll, vendor management, audit readiness, HR systems, and workforce data governance.
• Set entity, employer-of-record, global mobility, relocation, immigration, employment, and labor compliance strategies.
• Define workspace, onboarding, workplace safety, physical environment, and employee experience standards across offices, remote environments, and field deployments.
• Build learning and development, performance management, organizational design, job architecture, and manager capability programs.

Requirements

• End-to-end experience across Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, People Operations, and Workspaces.
• Expertise in global mobility, employer-of-record and entity management, international employment compliance, and compensation design.
• Experience scaling a People function from approximately 250 to 1,000+ employees and building programs, policies, and teams from scratch.
• Experience taking a company through an IPO or another exit and applying that experience to compensation strategy.
• Experience managing entities and employees across international jurisdictions, including workspace strategy, onboarding, and learning and development.
• Ability to act as a business partner to the executive team and proactively contribute a strategic point of view.

Nice to have

• Experience supporting a federal-facing entity, cleared workforce hiring, badging, and related compliance.
• Middle East experience with employer-of-record arrangements, local entities, and labor compliance across the UAE, KSA, and Bahrain.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base salary and equity.
• Subsidized medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Health savings, flexible spending, and dependent care flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) and Roth 401(k) retirement plan options.
• Unlimited paid time off and 14 paid company holidays per year.
• Work focused on ownership, autonomy, and building new systems in a fast-paced environment.