Director, Talent & Performance (AI)

Location: Hybrid in San Francisco, with remote hiring across North America

Company

hirify.global develops an intent-aware workspace security platform designed to protect human and AI-driven work from emerging security risks.

What you will do

• Design one continuous employee lifecycle connecting recruitment, onboarding, leveling, performance reviews, and career growth.
• Partner with Talent Acquisition to carry hiring insights into onboarding and performance, creating a feedback loop for future hiring.
• Build competency ladders and job architecture across multiple job families.
• Design and run performance and merit cycles, including calibration with senior leaders.
• Apply agentic AI to review preparation, calibration analysis, and performance reporting while maintaining human checkpoints for ratings, compensation, and job decisions.
• Coach directors and managers, own performance metrics, and support complex performance cases through termination with legal partners.

Requirements

• Expertise in talent and performance management, including personally designing and running a full performance cycle in a 100–500-person company.
• Experience building job architecture or competency ladders from scratch across multiple job families and driving manager adoption.
• Demonstrated experience using agentic AI in a people practice with performance at the center, including workflow design, outputs, human oversight, and measurable impact.
• Strong knowledge of performance metrics, executive reporting, manager coaching, and senior-leader calibration.
• Experience handling performance cases through termination across multiple states with legal support.
• Ability to build and ship practical systems quickly rather than overdesigning enterprise processes.

Nice to have

• Experience standing up a talent management system, working across multiple countries or with employer-of-record arrangements, or supporting rapid headcount growth.
• Experience partnering with quota-carrying sales organizations on ramp and performance management.
• Experience working in an organization of 500 or more people.

Culture & Benefits

• Customer-first, humble, and urgency-driven working principles.
• Remote work is available across North America for applicable positions.
• Meaningful equity in addition to salary.
• 90% medical, dental, and vision coverage for employees and 75% coverage for dependents.
• Flexible PTO, paid parental leave, a $100 monthly lifestyle account, and a $500 home-office stipend for remote employees.

Hiring process

• Reasonable accommodations and accessible formats are available throughout the hiring process.