[Hiring] Director of HR @vCluster Labs

Role Description

As the Director of People at vCluster Labs, you aren't just administering HR programs; you are the builder who turns people strategy into things that actually ship. Reporting to the VP of People, you will design and implement the strategic programs, tools, and infrastructure behind a company that doubled in a year and employs people in 21 countries. You will approach every problem AI-first, building tooling and automations that let a small people team support everyone building vCluster at the scale of a much larger one.

If you want to invent how a modern people function works instead of copying how legacy ones did, this is the seat.

• Strategic Programs and People Innovation: Partner with the VP of People to turn people strategy into programs that land. Take initiatives from idea to rollout, including:
  • Compensation reviews
  • Performance cycles
  • New programs we haven't built yet
  Measure what worked and iterate.
• AI-First People Tooling: Build with AI before reaching for headcount or manual process. Extend AI tools and agents across recruiting and people operations, and create new ones for:
  • Onboarding
  • Policy questions
  • Manager support
  • Reporting
• Global Employment and Compliance: Own employment compliance across every country we operate in, including Germany. Work with outside counsel to manage:
  • Contracts
  • Statutory benefits
  • Working time rules
  • Works council obligations
  • Terminations
• Operations Infrastructure: Manage our EOR setup, help decide with Finance when a country has earned its own entity, and keep Rippling accurate as our system of record. Build policies and lifecycle processes that support growth from 130 people to 250 and beyond.
• Leadership Development: Create and run leadership training for managers across every region, providing practical tools for:
  • Feedback
  • Performance conversations
  • Running a distributed team
• Culture and Engagement: Design and run culture programs and events globally, including:
  • Company offsites
  • Local team gatherings
  • Remote rituals
  Measure what people value and cut what they don't.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in HR or People Operations, including at least 3 years building global people programs at a US-headquartered, high-growth technology company.
• Directly managed employment for a German workforce, including contracts, notice periods, works councils, data privacy, and terminations.
• Hands-on EOR and entity experience across the US, EMEA, and other regions.
• Supported a remote team spread across many time zones, running programs, training, and employee support asynchronously.
• Experience running Rippling as an HRIS and payroll platform.
• Used AI tools daily and built real workflows, agents, or automations that replaced manual people work.
• Built leadership training and culture programs from scratch that people actually showed up for.

Requirements

• Experience employing people through Rippling's EOR offering.
• Comfort with no-code automation platforms, APIs, or light scripting to connect people systems.
• Experience building global pay bands or administering equity across multiple jurisdictions.
• Time at an open source, developer tools, or infrastructure company.
• Working knowledge of visas and work authorization in the US and EU.

Benefits

• Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.
• Premium Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).
• Flexible Working Schedule: Results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.
• Workplace Flexibility: We’re very flexible about where you work and happy to adjust the work environment for you.

Company Description

We're the #1 platform for AI infrastructure, trusted by the world's fastest-growing AI cloud builders. We're a venture-backed startup that's raised over $28M from top-tier investors including Khosla Ventures, and we're in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to join our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe with a remote-first culture.

We give AI Cloud providers and AI factories a hyperscaler-like experience on their own GPU infrastructure. Our platform runs the full stack an operator needs, from bare metal provisioning and node lifecycle management up through managed Kubernetes, Slurm, Ray, and inference clusters.

We're the company behind vCluster, the open source technology for tenant isolation on Kubernetes, with 11,000+ GitHub stars and 40M+ tenant clusters created since 2021.