[Hiring] Head of People @DFNS

Role Description

We have grown from a founding team in Paris into a company across Europe, America and Asia. You will be our first dedicated People hire, building the function from the ground up:

• Build the hiring engine, from process and tooling to hiring manager discipline, so we fill the roles ahead with people who raise the bar.
• Design onboarding that gets a new joiner productive in their first weeks, wherever they sit.
• Put in place leveling and compensation across every country we employ in, equity included, that is fair, explainable and ready for investor and audit scrutiny.
• Run People operations end to end (contracts, payroll and benefits across entities, employee records, offboarding) with Finance and Legal teams.
• Set up performance and development, from goals and reviews to career paths, so people know where they stand and where they can go.
• Own engagement and retention, measure them and act on what you find, including the retreats and offsites that hold a distributed team together.
• Keep us compliant with employment law in every country we hire in and keep People controls audit ready for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 (screening, access on and offboarding, security training).
• Be the person people come to when something is wrong and resolve it with judgment and discretion.

Qualifications

• Experience building a People function at a company that grew from tens to hundreds of people across several countries.
• Hands-on command of the full cycle (hiring, onboarding, payroll and benefits administration, performance, offboarding). You have done the work yourself, not only managed it.
• Working knowledge of French and US employment law plus the judgment to know when to call counsel.
• Experience designing compensation and leveling frameworks, including equity.
• Discretion and judgment in employee relations, including the hard conversations.
• Fluent English.

Requirements

• French, since our headquarters and a large part of the team are in Paris.
• Experience in a company certified to SOC 2 or ISO 27001, where People controls are audited.
• Experience with international payroll or employer of record providers.
• Experience hiring engineers and salespeople in the US.

Benefits

• A competitive base salary set by role and location, a bonus or variable plan where the role carries one and stock options vesting over four years.
• Healthcare, flexible vacation, parental leave and a one-time home technology allowance, with travel expenses covered.
• A MacBook and the equipment you need to do your best work.
• Remote first, with an office if you want one.

Company Description

DFNS is an equal opportunity employer and considers every applicant based on ability and potential, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, age or any other characteristic protected by law. If you need an accommodation at any point in the process, tell us and we will arrange it.