Head of People

Coram AI is seeking a Head of People to join our dynamic and rapidly growing team. The ideal candidate will lead the People function and operating foundation to support the company's expansion.

About the role

The Head of People will maintain organizational health, employee sentiment, and cultural issues. They will build and own the full People Operations function, including policies, systems, tools, and processes. This includes managing the employee lifecycle, ensuring compliance, and partnering with various departments.

Responsibilities

• Maintain a strong pulse on organizational health, employee sentiment, management quality, and cultural issues.
• Build and own the full People Operations function, including policies, systems, tools, and processes.
• Own the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, performance management, promotions, employee relations, terminations, and off-boarding.
• Ensure employment compliance across the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
• Build scalable processes for compensation, benefits, leave, documentation, investigations, and workplace policies.
• Partner with executives and managers on organizational design, workforce planning, team health, and difficult people decisions.
• Improve management quality through practical tools, coaching, and clear performance expectations.
• Own office management, workplace operations, facilities, and employee experience across all locations.
• Partner closely with Recruiting, Finance, Legal, IT, and company leadership.

Qualifications

• Experience leading People or People Operations at a rapidly growing startup or scale-up.
• Experience supporting an organization of at least 300 employees or helping a company scale through a similar stage.
• Demonstrated experience building a People function, not just operating within an established one.
• Strong experience across People Operations, compliance, performance management, employee relations, compensation, benefits, and workplace operations.
• Experience operating across multiple countries, ideally including the United States, the United Kingdom, and India.
• Strong judgment, direct communication, and the ability to handle sensitive issues with discretion and decisiveness.
• Comfortable operating strategically while remaining highly hands-on.
• Strong startup mindset and ability to build lightweight processes without creating unnecessary bureaucracy.

We offer a competitive compensation with regular performance reviews, equity in a rapidly growing company, the opportunity to take real ownership of your work and help shape the product, frequent team socials, dinners, and offsites, the latest tech and tools to help you build your best work, a sharp, mission-driven team focused on solving meaningful problems, and the chance to work on a product at the intersection of AI, security, and real-world impact.