Where You'll WorkThis position is based in our SF Bay Area office and will be expected to work in the office in a hybrid capacity. Boston and Indianapolis are also acceptable locations. LILT is hybrid with hubs in SF, NY, Indianapolis, Boston, London, and Berlin.
Authorization to work in the U.S. is a precondition of employment.
- SF Bay Area (highly preferred)
- Others: Boston, New York, Indianapolis
About The RoleWith blue-chip enterprise customers and a robust pipeline of both AI and modern software innovation, LILT seeks a courageous and strategic People leader. You will report to the CEO and be a member of the Exec Ops Team.
You spike in recruiting / talent and know what good looks like in operations, compliance, and employee relations. You will be curating and developer a group of builder-coaches who build and manage AI systems.
Desired Experience- Autodidact for markets: Our market is at the intersection of enterprise AI, AI data, and human operations. This requires highly specialized personnel that you're able to recruit, evaluate, and develop.
- Proven growth-stage tech experience: This won't be your first startup with the growth expectations of Tier 1 investors. Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business goals into actionable people strategies.
- International leadership: 50% of our workforce is in Europe, and we have contractors in LATAM and APAC. Developing cohesive teams across very different work cultures isn't new for you.
- (highly preferred) Evaluating and integrating teams via acquihires and/or small acquisitions.
Skills- Talent / recruiting genius: your zone of genius is recruiting and developing niche talent. Our business requires a unique blend of operating rigor, extreme quality control, and flexibility.
- Builder and hands-on operator: strategy is only half the job. You'll be building and running the People function with your own hands - writing the policies, driving the review cycle, and solving the day-to-day issues directly, not just setting direction for a team to execute. You're energized by doing the work, not only shaping it.
- Strategic communicator: you know how to own and shape the narrative through the layers of leadership and down to ICs. Your written and oral communications would impress the head of PR!
Knowledge- Operator mindset: you know all of the roles/processes/tools in the People function and what good looks like for each.
- Excited about in-office: we're in-office three days a week. You're stoked about this and have lots of ideas for building an energetic, generative in-office experience.
- Managing workplace health and flourishing as a product: you can articulate a plan for iterating on and improving the workplace health and vitality so that we're the most compelling place to work in our market.
Qualities- Find a way or make one:Our core virtue. You own it and solve it; nothing is somebody else's problem; you don't wait for a playbook - you build one. This is the single trait most predictive of success at LILT.
- Uncompromising Integrity: congruence among your values, actions, and words, and you expect this from everyone around you.
- Relationship builder: relational orientation to building trust across both the executive leadership team and with the broader team.
- Truthseeking: demands candid truths vs. kind lies.
- High Agency / Relentless: you can get in the mud, resolve the messy problems, and by doing so you become a trusted confidant of both executives and employees.
- Competitive: you know that high performance begets high performance, and your whole strategy and vision are oriented around cultivating high performance and human flourishing.
- High Business IQ: you work backward from a thorough understanding of the business and its goals to the People strategy.
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