As Albedo continues to scale, we're looking for a Head of People to build the systems, processes, and leadership capability that allow the company to grow without losing what makes it special. You'll own the people function end-to-end, partnering closely with founders and leadership to develop a high-performance culture, support employees and managers, and ensure our people infrastructure scales ahead of company growth. This role is equal parts operator, advisor, and builder - helping Albedo attract, develop, reward, and retain exceptional talent while navigating the realities of a fast-moving aerospace company. What You'll Do: • Own the end-to-end employee experience, including onboarding, offboarding, benefits administration, payroll coordination, HRIS administration, and employee support • Ensure compliance with employment laws and HR best practices across hiring, documentation, leave administration, employee relations, worker classification, and performance management • Serve as a trusted advisor to employees, managers, and leadership on people-related matters, providing coaching, guidance, and support through both everyday challenges and complex situations • Partner with managers and leadership to strengthen management capability across the organization and drive a high-performance culture • Lead performance management, compensation philosophy, salary banding, benchmarking, and total rewards programs • Own employee relations matters, including investigations, conflict resolution, performance concerns, and disciplinary processes • Partner closely with Finance, Legal, and company leadership on payroll, benefits, headcount planning, reporting, and organizational design • Plan and execute company events, offsites, and employee experience programs that strengthen culture and reinforce company values • Track and report key people metrics, identify organizational risks and opportunities, and use data to inform leadership decisions • Support recruiting on an as-needed basis for critical roles, while partnering with the recruiting team that owns hiring execution day-to-day Your Ideal Skills and Experience: • 7+ years of progressive HR/People experience, including prior ownership of a broad people function; prior Head of People or equivalent title at a company of similar scale strongly preferred • Experience building and scaling people infrastructure at a startup, ideally between 50-200 employees, where you had to create structure without losing speed • Deep knowledge of HR compliance, employment law, and best practices - including leave administration, worker classification, multi-state compliance, and employee relations - with the judgment to navigate gray areas • Hands-on experience with HRIS platforms (Rippling preferred), payroll administration, and benefits management • Experience designing and running performance management cycles, compensation benchmarking, and engagement and culture initiatives • Strong track record partnering directly with founders and senior leadership - comfortable influencing up and pushing back with data when needed • Exceptional written and verbal communication - you set the tone for how Albedo communicates with its people • Startup experience at the 50-200 person stage; comfort operating with ambiguity, wearing multiple hats, and building process where none exists • Prior experience in aerospace, defense, hard tech, or another technical environment is a plus • Comfort leveraging modern AI-assisted tools to create leverage and operate efficiently Salary Range: • $160,300 - $187,388 per year Compensation and Benefits for Full-Time Roles: • Employee friendly equity compensation • 4% direct matching 401k • Health Insurance: 100% employee coverage & 75% dependent coverage • Parental leave and childcare coverage • Flexible vacation and sick time from day one • 12 company holidays • $100 monthly wellness benefit • Relocation package if not based in Denver The final compensation package is subject to change if the candidate's experience and company need drive a different job level than originally slated for the position. Albedo does not accept agency resumes. Please do not forward resumes to Albedo employees. Albedo is not responsible for any fees or overhead related to unsolicited resumes. Relocation: Relocation support for this position is available Applicants must be a U.S. Person as defined under 22 CFR 120.62 #LI-Onsite Research shows that while men apply to jobs where they meet an average of 60% of the criteria, women and other underrepresented people tend to only apply when they meet 100% of the qualifications. At Albedo, we'd rather hear from you. We care more about how you think than which boxes you check. We value people who do the math, make their assumptions explicit, and ask the annoying questions: what breaks, what's the failure mode, what has to be true for this to work? If that sounds like you, apply, even if you don't meet every line.