People Programs (AI)

Location: San Francisco, United States. On-site, 5 days per week in the office.

Salary: $190,000–$230,000 per year, plus equity and bonus.

Company

hirify.global is an applied research lab curating data solutions for foundation model development and serving frontier AI labs.

What you will do

• Design and maintain total compensation strategy, including philosophy, bands, leveling, refresh cadence, and equity frameworks.
• Build written career pathways and leveling rubrics that define expectations for progression.
• Establish a fast, written performance management cycle and calibration process.
• Design learning and development programs covering onboarding, manager training, technical depth, and feedback culture.
• Own retention as a measurable outcome by defining leading indicators, building sensing systems, and running improvement programs.
• Partner with founders, functional leaders, and finance on organization design, headcount planning, compensation, and burn tradeoffs.

Requirements

• 7–10+ years of experience across strategy consulting, analytical or strategy and operations roles, and core People or HR programs.
• Experience building at least one People program end-to-end, ideally at a company known for strong People practices or in a comparable AI company.
• Strong quantitative skills, including modeling leveling decisions, attrition, compensation band overlap, and equity refresh tradeoffs.
• Ability to design programs from 0 to 1 and operate effectively through a strategy shift or AI pivot.
• Experience designing compensation programs for workforces that include full-time employees and diverse contractor populations.
• Comfort working in a 5-day in-office San Francisco environment.

Nice to have

• Experience at companies such as Stripe, Block, Netflix, Airbnb, Bridgewater, Mercor, Surge, or ScaleAI.
• Experience on the organizational design side of an AI pivot or major business-model change.
• Genuine interest in the role of human-generated data in the future of AI.

Culture & Benefits

• High-agency, low-ego, written-first working style.
• Direct collaboration with founders and functional leaders.
• Competitive salary, meaningful equity, and bonus.
• Opportunity to shape the People function and lead major organizational initiatives during rapid growth.