[Hiring] Vice President Of People @Nabis

Role Description

We're hiring a VP People to lead our People function end-to-end. We want a leader who can do that hands-on while also showing up with the executive presence to be a real partner to the President, the operations leadership team, and the rest of the executive bench.

This is a player-coach role in the most literal sense. You will lead a small team and develop them, but you will also be deep in the work yourself:

• Making the hard ER calls
• Owning the systems
• Closing critical hires
• Getting on the warehouse floor
• Coaching managers through tough conversations

If your instinct is to build a deck before you build the team, this is not your seat. If your instinct is to spend your first month walking the warehouses, sitting with managers, fixing the broken process you find on day three, and then bringing a sharp point of view to the executive team — keep reading.

Responsibilities

• Assess where the People team is today, decide what it needs to become, and build it.
• Coach the team you keep, hire what's missing, and set the bar for how this function operates inside Nabis.
• High-volume ER work including investigations, performance management, terminations, accommodations, and workers' comp claims.
• Multistate compliance, with California depth.
• Set the strategy and be hands-on for critical hires across hourly, operations, and corporate roles.
• Build a working relationship with warehouse and logistics leaders.
• Manage benefits, payroll, and total rewards.
• Handle HRIS, ATS, and the supporting stack — configuration, reporting, integrations.
• Manage external partners like brokers, EORs, and employment counsel.
• Scope, drive, and land cross-functional people projects such as compensation reviews and policy rollouts.

What the First 12 Months Look Like

• Months 1–3: Listen, diagnose, and start moving.
• Months 3–6: Function reshaped, fundamentals tightened.
• Months 6–12: Capability built, voice earned.

Qualifications

• 12+ years in HR/People roles, with meaningful time inside a logistics, distribution, manufacturing, or similarly operationally heavy company.
• Direct experience supporting hourly and warehouse workforces at scale.
• Multistate compliance experience, with California depth strongly preferred.
• Cannabis industry experience is a plus but not required.
• Operator first, strategist second.
• Executive presence to match.
• Builder mindset.
• Hands-on recruiting chops.
• Tech-fluent.
• Comfortable with high autonomy and ambiguity.

Compensation & Benefits

• Unlimited PTO and paid holidays
• Competitive salary and equity packages.
• Base Salary: $220K–$250K range
• Additional compensation: Equity + bonus available, but dependent on job level
• Medical/Dental/Vision offered to all full-time employees
• 401(k) plan with a match.

Company Description

Nabis is the #1 licensed cannabis wholesale platform in the world, supplying $1B+ worth of cannabis products annually from hundreds of brands to retailers across California, New York, and Nevada. Our mission is to empower the world to discover cannabis by providing choice, access, and innovation.

We’re at the forefront of this movement, building an innovative, technology-first platform to scale the entire cannabis industry.

Nabis is rapidly expanding across the U.S. with the goal of becoming the largest and most influential cannabis distribution network globally.