VIce President, Human Resources

About the Role

Our client is seeking its first Vice President of Human Resources to build, lead, and personally operate the company’s global people function. This is an Executive role with substantial direct execution responsibility: the Vice President of Human Resources will set the strategy for organizational design, total rewards, talent, and culture, and will personally construct the frameworks, policies, and systems that deliver it across the United States, Argentina, and the United Kingdom.

The company is developing advanced nuclear energy solutions intended to deliver reliable, scalable, and carbon-free electricity for industrial and grid applications. The international team brings together nuclear, engineering, commercial, regulatory, and project-development experience, building an organization focused on disciplined engineering, responsible execution, and deployment of nuclear energy at meaningful scale.

The Vice President of Human Resources will be both the accountable executive and the senior practitioner for how the company organizes, rewards, develops, and retains the engineers, scientists, operators, and builders its mission depends on. As a member of the leadership team reporting directly to the President, you will shape organizational design and culture at the executive table and personally build the systems that deliver them: compensation and equity structures, policies, HR operations, and the full employee lifecycle across three countries.

Ideal Candidate Profile

• Believes nuclear energy is essential to a clean energy future and wants their work to contribute to it.
• Is energized by building people systems from a blank page rather than inheriting and maintaining them.
• Moves fluidly between executive strategy and hands-on execution, and enjoys both.
• Wants to define what a world-class, multi-country people function looks like at a company that will scale quickly.

Responsibilities

Build and Lead the People Function

• Own the people strategy end-to-end, setting the vision for organizational design, total rewards, talent, and culture, then personally build the systems that deliver it.
• Establish and implement HR information systems, payroll, performance management, and the full employee lifecycle.
• Set HR service standards and operating rhythms that scale with rapid headcount growth across three countries.
• Provide direction and support for in-country HR operations in Argentina while building the broader structure over time.
• Create people analytics covering headcount, turnover, compensation equity, retention, and span of control, and use them to drive leadership decisions.

Design and Own Total Rewards

• Build job leveling frameworks, salary bands, and equity allocation methodologies benchmarked to market across the United States, Argentina, and the United Kingdom.
• Own the employee stock option program and equity incentive structures in partnership with finance and legal on design, allocation, and communication.
• Establish health, retirement, and other benefits programs that balance cost, competitiveness, and employee needs across regions.
• Conduct market compensation analyses to keep the company competitive for specialized technical roles.

Run Multi-Country Employment, Talent Acquisition, and Compliance

• Design location-specific employment policies and compensation structures that comply with local law in each country while preserving global consistency.
• Partner with local counsel across jurisdictions, manage work authorization, visa sponsorship, and relocation for international hires.
• Determine where local HR presence is required versus where centralized support is sufficient.
• Lead hiring for specialized technical and corporate roles, manage search firms and recruiting partners for hard-to-fill positions.
• Design interview processes that balance speed and rigor.

Lead Culture, Employee Relations, and Governance

• Shape and steward the company culture as it scales, partnering with the leadership team on organizational design.
• Personally lead sensitive employee relations matters and investigations with discretion, thoroughness, and sound judgment.
• Draft, implement, and enforce HR policies covering conduct, discipline, leave, and workplace standards.
• Partner with legal on disputes, terminations, and high-risk situations.
• Serve as the senior escalation point for complex people situations across all locations.

Requirements

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressive people and HR leadership, including time at the executive or senior leadership level, with a demonstrated record of building and operating people functions rather than only advising on them.
• Deep total rewards experience: personally built compensation frameworks, salary bands, benefits programs, and equity or stock option structures.
• Multi-country experience supporting employees in at least two countries, including Latin America.
• A hands-on execution history: personally built systems, written policies, conducted investigations, and implemented HR information systems.
• Experience hiring specialized technical talent, such as engineers, scientists, or skilled trades, in competitive markets.
• Professional fluency in Spanish, sufficient to manage HR operations and in-country staff in Argentina.
• Deep knowledge of US employment law and working knowledge of international labor frameworks.
• Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, or a related field (Master’s preferred), or equivalent professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in a technically complex, regulated, or high-stakes industry such as energy, aerospace, defense, advanced manufacturing, or infrastructure.
• Experience standing up the people function at a high-growth or venture-backed company.
• UK or broader European employment experience.
• Experience selecting and implementing leading HR information system platforms.
• Relevant certifications such as SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or equivalent.
• Eligibility for the screenings and clearances associated with work in the nuclear industry.

The Candidate We Are Seeking

The strongest candidate is a strategist and a doer in equal measure: someone who operates at the executive level and still builds the spreadsheet, writes the policy, runs the investigation, and configures the system when the moment calls for it. They are at home where no playbook exists, create order from ambiguity, and maintain discipline in documentation, data integrity, and process even while moving fast. They balance global consistency with local adaptation across the United States, Latin America, and Europe, and should be prepared to discuss people functions, compensation frameworks, and policies they personally built.

Benefits

• Comprehensive health insurance.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Participation in the company’s employee stock option program, subject to plan terms and eligibility.

High-quality workplace: modern Dallas office designed to support collaboration, productivity, and employee well-being, including an on-site fitness facility.