Head of People

Location: Anywhere; 100% remote with flexible working hours and core hours supporting real-time collaboration.

Company

hirify.global provides a social VR platform with user-created worlds and community-driven experiences.

What you will do

• Partner with senior leaders to strengthen leadership alignment, decision-making, accountability, and decision rights.
• Lead and develop the People team while maintaining dependable People operations, onboarding, and employee lifecycle support.
• Run performance calibration and manager-accountability practices, and coach managers through feedback, employee relations issues, and organizational change.
• Use engagement, attrition, and performance insights to identify organizational risks and capability gaps and provide recommendations to leadership.
• Lead leveling and compensation practices, including equity philosophy and communication, in partnership with executive leadership and Finance.
• Partner with the recruiting lead on workforce planning, quality of hire, leveling, candidate experience, and recruiting-to-ramp handoffs.

Requirements

• Demonstrated success leading a lean People function or a comparably broad People remit at a growing technology company, with direct ownership of performance practices, manager coaching, employee relations, and People operations.
• Demonstrated track record of building and executing people programs with measurable impact.
• Experience guiding a People function through meaningful inflection points, including changes to performance practices, organizational change, culture investment, or growth.
• Fast and iterative approach, with the ability to deliver a first version quickly and improve it based on stakeholder input.
• Practical experience improving People workflows through automation or AI, with evidence of impact and sound judgment regarding privacy and human oversight.
• Ability to communicate People insights, trade-offs, and recommendations clearly to senior leadership and turn discussion into decisions and action.
• Experience managing globally distributed, fully remote teams across multiple employment models.
• Empathetic and decisive approach, with comfort operating in ambiguity and making pragmatic decisions with imperfect information.
• Alignment with a bold, collaborative, outcome-focused working style that supports healthy debate and committed execution.

Nice to have

• Background in technology, gaming, social platforms, or community-driven products.
• Experience working at a company where the product is also a space the workforce inhabits, such as gaming, social platforms, or creator tools.
• Experience presenting People insights and recommendations to a board.
• Track record of fostering belonging across a diverse, global workforce.
• Experience with hirify.global or curiosity about social VR and how people connect.

Culture & Benefits

• Work from anywhere as part of a 100% remote company.
• Flexible working hours with core hours for real-time collaboration.
• Health benefits, including 401K for US employees and Group RRSP for Canadian employees.
• Stock options and a generous paid holiday schedule.
• Unlimited or flexible vacation time and paid parental leave benefits.
• Inclusive, diverse, creative, and collaborative environment.

Hiring process

• Offers are subject to early-stage ID checks, satisfactory referencing, and background checks.