Director, Talent Acquisition & Employee Success (AI Security)

Location: Vancouver, Canada (Hybrid); requires an energetic, structured in-person presence as the primary site leader for the Vancouver office.

Base salary: CAD $150,000–$160,000, plus a small variable component.

Company

Develops Calico and Lynx technologies for AI agent security, workload governance, cloud-native networking, runtime protection, and eBPF-driven enforcement across Kubernetes, multicloud, and hybrid environments.

What you will do

• Lead the People Team and provide strategic guidance to executive leadership while managing, coaching, and developing team members.
• Review and optimize HR practices, including performance management, PIPs, feedback mechanisms, onboarding, probation management, goal setting, and performance tracking.
• Elevate talent acquisition strategy and processes, improve executive-to-People-team recruiting interfaces, optimize dashboards, and support recruiting execution when capacity requires.
• Advise on complex HR situations and provide operational and financial oversight across People operations, office management, and company events.
• Lead the Vancouver site by driving local culture, engagement, and operational oversight.
• Build leadership development and manager enablement programs, develop data-informed retention and acquisition strategies, manage People vendors, and drive AI adoption across the People function.

Requirements

• 10+ years of progressive People Operations or HR leadership experience, including at least 3+ years in a Director-level role managing team members and vendor ecosystems.
• Ability to provide an energetic, structured in-person presence as the primary Site Leader for the Vancouver office.
• Demonstrated experience managing HRIS, ATS, and benefits platforms such as TriNet, Rippling, Greenhouse, and BambooHR.
• Experience advising C-suite executives combined with a hands-on player-coach approach to direct execution when needed.
• Strong expertise in building scalable frameworks for performance tracking, onboarding, manager training, and retention.
• Passion for and familiarity with AI tools and modern People technology for streamlining workflows.
• Hands-on, pragmatic, and execution-oriented working style.
• Low-ego, collaborative leadership style; strong written and narrative communication; and the ability to operate in fast-paced, resource-constrained environments.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, flexible work environment based on respect and employee commitment.
• High-trust, highly collaborative culture focused on continuous learning, openness, and teamwork.
• Competitive compensation package with full health, vision, and dental benefits.
• Opportunity to support AI adoption and contribute to an AI-native People operation.