Head of People (AI)

Location: Paris office, France; hybrid

Company

hirify.global is an AI-powered media infrastructure company for sports organizations, founded in 2021, with 65 employees across Paris, New York, and 10+ other countries.

What you will do

• Design organizational structures, spans, team composition, and headcount plans as the company scales and AI changes roles and hiring needs.
• Build and manage leveling, performance, calibration, talent review, succession, career development, and retention frameworks.
• Develop compensation bands, equity frameworks, regional benefits, benchmarking, offer governance, and compensation cost discipline, including US-market competitiveness.
• Set hiring priorities and talent standards, including AI fluency, and oversee senior hiring and high-performer retention.
• Equip managers to hire, develop, evaluate, and retain effective teams while improving organizational health across regions and hybrid teams.
• Define People KPIs and decision frameworks, lead employment-structure decisions including entity and EOR considerations, and develop the People team.

Requirements

• Experience building People programs in high-growth technology companies, ideally with 8+ years of progressive experience across People Operations, People Strategy, HRBP, or related roles.
• Proven ability to design and implement People frameworks in at least two areas: compensation and job leveling, performance management and calibration, talent development, or organizational design.
• Strong analytical and business judgment, including using data to diagnose organizational problems, evaluate trade-offs, and balance employee experience, performance, and financial discipline.
• First managerial experience required, including leading and developing at least a small People or HR team.
• Comfort working hands-on in a lean, fast-moving organization and building practical first versions of processes and systems.

Culture & Benefits

• Work with teams in Paris, New York, and across Europe on international compensation, employment, and culture topics.
• Partner directly with the CEO and Head of Ops and influence decisions shaping the company.
• Lead a lean People team spanning Talent Acquisition and Talent Development, currently two people.
• Operate in a high-performance, hybrid environment with a focus on strong talent, accountability, collaboration, and organizational health.