Vice President of Human Resources

Location: Denver, Colorado, United States; on-site. Candidates must be U.S. citizens or nationals, U.S. permanent residents, or lawfully admitted refugees or asylees.

Salary: $210,000–$250,000 per year, with individual base salary determined by knowledge, skills, education, and experience.

Company

hirify.global develops inertial fusion energy technology using advanced laser architecture to deploy fusion power plants and support global decarbonization.

What you will do

• Advise the executive leadership team on organizational strategy, leadership effectiveness, workforce planning, succession planning, and culture.
• Develop and execute the long-term People strategy supporting growth from research and development through commercialization and multi-site expansion.
• Build, mentor, and lead HR functions spanning business partnering, total rewards, HR operations, learning and development, employee experience, and employee relations.
• Lead compensation, equity, performance management, promotion, career development, onboarding, feedback, recognition, and manager effectiveness programs.
• Establish scalable people systems, governance mechanisms, HR technology, analytics, policies, and operating rhythms.
• Manage complex employee relations matters, investigations, employment compliance, people budgets, headcount planning, and organizational investment strategies.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or a related field; a master’s degree or MBA is preferred.
• 15+ years of progressive HR leadership experience, including executive-level leadership in high-growth technology, aerospace, advanced manufacturing, energy, defense, or similarly complex engineering organizations.
• Experience scaling organizations rapidly while building modern HR systems, processes, leadership capability, and high-performing HR teams.
• Deep expertise in organizational design, leadership development, employee relations, total rewards, performance management, HR operations, compliance, and workforce planning.
• Strong business acumen, executive communication, influence, change management, cultural assessment, and enterprise transformation skills.
• Must already have U.S. citizenship, U.S. permanent residency, or lawful admission as a refugee or asylee.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling organizations from fewer than 200 to more than 1,000 employees.
• Experience in engineering, scientific research, hardware development, manufacturing, deep technology, commercialization, or manufacturing scale-up.
• Experience designing executive compensation and equity programs for venture-backed companies.
• Familiarity with government contracting, export controls, security-cleared workforces, regulated industries, enterprise HRIS, talent management, or people analytics platforms.

Culture & Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage, life insurance, and short- and long-term disability insurance.
• Paid parental leave, paid sick time, 13 company-paid holidays, and an annual paid company shutdown.
• Flexible paid time off based on role and team expectations.
• 401(k) with a company match of up to 6% and equity eligibility for regular employees.
• Culture focused on accountability, respectful debate, operational excellence, innovation, continuous improvement, trust, equality, and teamwork.