[Hiring] Head of People Operations @IOMETE

Role Description

We are hiring our first dedicated People leader to own the full employee lifecycle — from how we find and hire great people, to how we pay and contract them compliantly across countries, to how we keep a distributed team connected.

This is a builder role. You will inherit working-but-manual processes and turn them into a system that scales. You will be hands-on every day:

• Drafting contracts
• Running hiring loops
• Booking offsite venues

You will also have real influence on how IOMETE grows, working directly with the founders.

The role currently spans three areas:

• People Operations (roughly 50% of your time)
  • Own all employment and contractor agreements across countries, working through Deel and with external counsel where needed.
  • Ensure compliance with local labor law in every country where we employ or contract people.
  • Design and maintain our compensation framework.
  • Run onboarding and offboarding end to end.
  • Build and document core people processes.
  • Keep people-related data accurate in Deel and produce simple reporting for the founders.
  • Be the trusted, confidential point of contact for team members on people matters.
• Recruiting (roughly 35% of your time)
  • Fix our hiring process.
  • Own the recruiting toolstack and pipeline.
  • Partner with hiring managers to write job descriptions and train interviewers.
  • Manage external recruiters and agencies.
  • Ensure every candidate has a professional and respectful experience.
  • Track and report on core recruiting metrics.
• Culture, Events & Internal Operations (roughly 15% of your time)
  • Plan and run our company offsites end to end.
  • Organize other company events and moments that matter for a remote team.
  • Help build and protect a healthy, high-performance culture.
  • Take on cross-functional projects for the founders.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in People Operations, HR, or a People generalist role, including at least 3 years at a fast-growing startup or scale-up.
• Highly organized, discreet, and comfortable owning many moving parts with little supervision.
• Hands-on experience employing people across multiple countries, using an EOR or global HRIS platform.
• Working knowledge of employee, EOR vs. contractor classification and labor law across jurisdictions.
• Proven experience running recruiting end to end, ideally including technical hiring.
• Experience designing or running a compensation framework.
• Excellent written and spoken English.
• A builder's mindset.

Requirements

• Experience at a remote-first company or a B2B software company.
• Experience organizing international events or offsites.
• HR certification (e.g., SHRM, CIPD) or a legal background.

Benefits

• Competitive compensation, benchmarked by role and geography.
• Equity in IOMETE.
• A fully remote setup with flexible working hours.
• Direct access to and partnership with the founders.
• The opportunity to grow with the company as the People function grows.

Company Description

IOMETE is the Sovereign Data+AI Platform: a self-hosted platform for data and AI, built on open standards like Apache Iceberg and Apache Spark, that enterprises run on-premises, in their own cloud, or hybrid — always under their own control.

We serve organizations for whom data ownership and security are non-negotiable, including central banks, government ministries, large financial institutions, and global enterprises.

IOMETE was recognized in the Gartner® Market Guide for Data Lakehouse Platforms.

We are a US C-Corp with a fully remote team of 30+ people, most of them engineers, spread across multiple countries.

We are growing quickly, and we intend to keep the things that made us good while we do it: high trust, high ownership, low bureaucracy.