Director, People (Fintech)

Location: New York, NY, with a regular in-person presence expected at a hub in NYC, Austin, San Francisco, or Washington, D.C.; full-time remote work is not supported.

Salary: $180,000–$215,000 annual U.S. base salary, depending on experience and location, plus equity and benefits.

Company

hirify.global provides APIs that connect consumer financial accounts, enable real-time liability connectivity and instant payment execution, and support millions of users and leading financial institutions.

What you will do

• Design and lead all facets of the People function as Method scales.
• Partner with leadership on organizational design, role clarity, manager coaching, leadership development, employee relations, and sensitive people matters.
• Run performance management and build cross-functional leveling frameworks and career ladders.
• Own total rewards, including compensation philosophy, benchmarking, merit cycles, benefits, and leave policies.
• Build HR dashboards, conduct analysis, and use HRIS and AI to guide People programs.
• Oversee onboarding, offboarding, HRIS optimization, benefits administration, global mobility, immigration, and culture initiatives.

Requirements

• 8+ years of progressive HR experience, including at least 5 years as the primary HR point of contact within a high-growth company, preferably in technology.
• Experience leading or joining the People function early at a venture-backed startup, ideally through Series B–D growth.
• Background in people operations and/or HR business partnership.
• Hands-on employee relations experience and sound judgment in sensitive matters.
• Ability to build compensation and leveling analyses independently using spreadsheets.
• Experience designing performance, compensation, and leveling programs from scratch and adapting them as headcount grows.
• Ability to build trust quickly, coach leaders confidently, adjust when programs are not working, and right-size processes to the company stage.
• Comfort using AI tools to work faster and improve decision-making.

Nice to have

• Experience as the first People hire at a company that scaled beyond 150 employees.
• Background in fintech, B2B SaaS, or another high-growth technical environment.
• Experience running People programs on Rippling.
• Experience designing equity refresh programs.
• Creative experience with culture and employee engagement programming.

Culture & Benefits

• Lean, AI-native operating model with approximately 65 employees and a hands-on People role.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, with basic medical plans fully covered.
• Flexible PTO, 12 weeks of parental leave, commuter benefits, and phone/internet and work-from-home stipends.
• Lunch allowance for office work, student loan repayment contribution, lifestyle spending stipend, and learning and development stipend.
• Hybrid offices stocked with snacks and quarterly team off-sites; most roles require an average of 2–3 in-office days per week, with limited occasional remote weeks.