Humaans is building the next generation of infrastructure for the workplace; software designed for companies that are scaling fast, operating globally, and pushing into new boundaries.
What started as a system of record has evolved into a broader platform for operating people globally. With Athena, our agentic AI layer, Humaans moves beyond data management into intelligent orchestration, connecting workflows across HR, IT, Finance, and Operations so organisations can act faster and with greater confidence, redefining how work gets done.
We work with ambitious teams across Europe and the US, from AI-native companies like Lovable, Poolside, Fyxer AI, and Tandem Health, to established, high-growth organisations scaling internationally and through acquisition, including Quantexa, Sellpy, Manychat, Gigs, Croud, and Threecolts. These teams don’t buy software for features,they buy leverage. The ability to run faster, cleaner, and with more control as complexity compounds.
To date, we’ve raised $20m in venture funding from some of the most respected founders, operators, and funds in technology: Lachy Groom (Physical Intelligence), Stewart Butterfield (Slack), Tobias Lütke (Shopify), Dylan Field (Figma), Jeff Weiner (LinkedIn), Claire Johnson (Stripe), Oliver Jay (OpenAI), Jay Simmons (Bond) as well as Y Combinator, Moonfire, Frontline Ventures, Pathlight Ventures, and Exor.
If you have massive ambition and want to work on a hard problem, with a small team that moves fast, at a moment when the category is genuinely up for grabs - this is it.
We’re looking for a Product Design Lead to help shape the direction of Humaans and lead the design of some of our most important product areas.
This is a hands-on design leadership role. You’ll remain close to the craft, owning work from early exploration through to launch, while making strategic decisions about how the product should evolve. You’ll define how experiences behave, establish the interaction patterns that connect them and shape the visual language that determines how Humaans is perceived and used.
You’ll work closely with Engineering and the wider team to connect our business vision with real customer problems, turning complex requirements and technical capabilities into experiences that feel simple and intuitive. You’ll have significant autonomy, and we’ll expect you to use strong product and design judgement to help determine what we build and how we build it.
Lead and oversee multiple product areas from early exploration through to launch
Own strategic design decisions and help shape the direction of the product
Design end-to-end flows and experiences that make complex workflows feel simple and intuitive
Connect our business vision with customer needs, turning them into thoughtful and useful product experiences
Define how experiences behave and establish interaction patterns that create consistency across the product
Shape and evolve our visual language across typography, colour, layout, iconography and overall aesthetic
Work closely with Engineering to translate complex technical architectures into simple, intuitive user interactions
Set a high bar for design quality while balancing craft with the pace and changing priorities of a growing company
Articulate the thinking behind your decisions clearly and bring the broader team along through your work
A strong individual contributor with the leadership skills and judgement to influence product direction
Experience leading the design of significant product areas and making strategic decisions about how products evolve
Excellent interaction design skills, with the ability to define behaviours, flows and patterns across a product
Exceptional visual design craft and strong judgement across typography, colour, layout, hierarchy, iconography and aesthetics
Strong product thinking and an ability to connect customer needs, business objectives and design decisions
The confidence to form a point of view, make decisions and explain the reasoning and trade-offs behind them
Experience working closely with engineers and navigating technical complexity to arrive at simple solutions
The ability to execute at speed without compromising the quality and thoughtfulness of the experience
Comfort operating with autonomy and navigating the changing priorities of a growing startup
You prefer focusing on execution after product direction and requirements have already been decided
You want to move away from hands-on design into a primarily people management role
You prefer specialising exclusively in either interaction or visual design rather than taking responsibility for the complete experience
You’re uncomfortable forming a strong point of view and making strategic design decisions with incomplete information
You prefer working within an established design language rather than helping define and evolve one
You need lengthy design cycles before sharing work, testing ideas or moving towards implementation
You prefer handing finished designs to Engineering rather than working closely together through the details of how they are built
This is an in-person role. Our team comes together in the office Monday through Thursday, while most of the team collaborates in person on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Thursdays.
Early stage startups can be messy – we know that. We're putting effort in providing you with the best employee experience and a quality driven environment in exchange for trusting us.
Market-leading compensation that reflects your value
25 days paid time off each year plus public holidays
Share Options with 5-year exercise window so you don’t feel pressure to exercise if you leave
Quarterly team events, and company offsites
Top tier private coverage for health, vision and dental care
A new MacBook and tools you need to do your best work
Enhanced parental leave with up to 16 weeks for primary and 4 weeks for secondary
Learning & development budget
HR tech is having its AI moment and we’re positioned to own it. Humaans started as a next-gen HRIS taking on large incumbents in a massive market. We’ve since evolved into something even bigger: an AI platform that sits across workforce data and automates the operational layer of HR entirely; the natural progression of what we’ve been building toward.
The product is highly differentiated. It’s built around a structured workforce data model that makes AI reliable in an HR context, something no one else has gotten right. Customers notice the difference immediately.
We’re backed by Y Combinator, Lachy Groom, Moonfire, Frontline Ventures, and operators who’ve built some of the most consequential software companies of the last decade: the founders of Slack, Figma, and Shopify, and Asana’s former CRO and Head of OpenAI International.
We’re a small team with an unapologetically high bar. It shows up in the product, in how we communicate, and in the standards we hold each other to.
At Humaans we’re looking for genuinely good people that are transparent and emphatic. We’re committed to providing equal opportunities, a diverse and inclusive work environment, and ensuring a fair interview process for everyone. You’re welcome to apply no matter your gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, civil or family status, age, disability, or race.
We care about your privacy. When you apply for a role at Humaans, we’ll collect and process your personal data as part of our recruitment process. This includes things like your CV, contact details, and any other information you choose to share. We may also contact you about future opportunities. You can ask us to delete your data at any time. For more details, see our Privacy Policy.
Humaans provides an AI-powered HRIS that helps growing companies manage people data and automate HR tasks. It centralizes employee information and automates processes such as onboarding, offboarding, and compensation management, and also handles time and attendance. The system is built for collaboration across People Ops, Finance, and IT, and exposes a robust API and webhooks to connect with a company’s existing technology stack, enabling data flow and automated workflows between department tools. The product is offered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and targets companies of all sizes, with a focus on remote-first and distributed teams. It positions itself as the foundational layer of a company’s HR technology stack by streamlining routine administrative work and consolidating HR data. The goal is to make HR administration more efficient and interconnected across the organization.
Company Size
51-200
Company Stage
Series A
Total Funding
$20.1M
Headquarters
London, United Kingdom
Founded
2019
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Humaans expands into US Payroll as it accelerates US growth. Aug 23, 2026 Humaans US Payroll will begin rolling out this fall, bringing payroll execution into the same platform that powers workforce data, automation and AI agents. United Kingdom, August 23, 2026 - Humaans, the workforce technology company behind the agentic AI platform Athena, today announced its expansion into US payroll. Humaans Payroll will begin rolling out to its first customers this fall, marking another major step in the company's expansion into the US and further upmarket. Over the past few years, Humaans has continued to build on its core system of record, giving companies more ways to manage their workforce from a single platform. That has included the launch of AI-powered Employee Engagement which turns workforce feedback into actionable insights, and Athena, a system-agnostic agentic AI platform that enables organizations to deploy AI agents across People, IT and Finance. Payroll is a natural next step. Much of the information needed to run payroll from compensation and employment details to changes in a person's role or location, already lives in the workforce record. Bringing payroll into that same foundation means companies can keep their workforce data connected while reducing the manual work involved in keeping information up to date. "Everything required to pay someone correctly is the consequence of events the system of record already owns," said Giovanni Luperti, CEO and co-founder of Humaans. "Someone joins, moves state, gets promoted, changes compensation, takes leave or receives a bonus. Yet every pay cycle, teams still spend enormous amounts of time reconstructing that context for payroll. Wyoming Inquiry think payroll should begin the moment something changes in the workforce, not when someone sits down at the end of the pay cycle to prepare it." Deepening Humaans' US expansion The US has become an increasingly important market for Humaans, and the company is investing more heavily in its presence there. A growing share of its customers are based in the US, while many of the international organizations it works with already have employees there or are expanding into the market. Payroll is a natural extension of that growth. Managing employees across multiple states brings added complexity around taxes, benefits, employment arrangements and workforce changes, much of which still sits across disconnected systems. Much of the market is still built around legacy systems, and Humaans sees an opportunity to take a different approach, combining better infrastructure and connected workforce data with automation and AI. "The US is a market we care deeply about," said Luperti. "We're seeing growing demand both from US companies and from international organizations expanding here. We want Humaans to support those companies as they grow, while keeping their workforce data and operations deeply connected as they scale." More broadly, Humaans believes AI will push organizations to rethink both how they operate and the technology they rely on. That thinking extends to payroll, where the goal is to move beyond simply digitizing the same monthly processes and instead build a system around an accurate workforce record from the start. Payroll built for US complexity Humaans Payroll will support businesses across all 50 states and Washington, DC, including W-2 employees and 1099 contractors. It will support weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, monthly, quarterly and annual pay cadences, with tax calculations, payments and filings built directly into the payroll experience. Changes to compensation, employment, location and leave will flow directly from the workforce record into payroll, carrying the relevant effective dates and approvals with them. For People and Finance teams, that means less manual preparation and reconciliation, fewer opportunities for errors, and a much clearer path from workforce change to payday. Beyond systems of record: Building for the AI era Humaans believes AI fundamentally changes what a workforce software is capable of. Rather than simply recording information or helping people complete tasks, softwares can increasingly understand context, navigate workflows and take action on behalf of HR teams. Athena is designed to address this by taking on administrative work and coordinating workflows. Payroll isn't just another product for Humaans. It gives the platform another important area where workforce changes can be understood and acted on automatically. Over time, a promotion, for example, could automatically trigger the relevant compensation workflow, assess its impact on payroll, prepare the necessary changes, flag any exceptions, and surface only the decisions that require human judgment or approval. "We don't believe the next generation of workplace technology will look like today's SaaS products with an AI assistant added on top," said Luperti. "AI changes what software itself can do, from giving people better tools to understanding context, reasoning across systems and increasingly executing work on their behalf. That's the shift we're designing Humaans around." Availability Humaans Payroll will begin rolling out with its first US customers this fall. Companies interested in joining the initial rollout can contact Humaans to learn more. For companies operating outside the US, Humaans will continue to support payroll through its ecosystem of integrations with both local and global payroll providers. About Humaans Humaans is building the next generation of workforce technology for scaling and global organizations. Its platform brings together a flexible system of record, connected workforce data, automation, and AI to help companies manage their people and automate more of the operational work that surrounds them. Humaans is also the company behind Athena, its system-agnostic agentic AI platform that enables organizations to deploy AI agents across People, IT and Finance and across the systems they already use. Headquartered in London with a growing presence in the US, Humaans is backed by investors including Y Combinator, Lachy Groom, Exor, Moonfire, and Frontline Ventures. 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Humaans expands into US Payroll as it accelerates US growth. Aug 22, 2026 Humaans US Payroll will begin rolling out this fall, bringing payroll execution into the same platform that powers workforce data, automation and AI agents. United Kingdom, August 23, 2026 - Humaans, the workforce technology company behind the agentic AI platform Athena, today announced its expansion into US payroll. Humaans Payroll will begin rolling out to its first customers this fall, marking another major step in the company's expansion into the US and further upmarket. Over the past few years, Humaans has continued to build on its core system of record, giving companies more ways to manage their workforce from a single platform. That has included the launch of AI-powered Employee Engagement which turns workforce feedback into actionable insights, and Athena, a system-agnostic agentic AI platform that enables organizations to deploy AI agents across People, IT and Finance. Payroll is a natural next step. Much of the information needed to run payroll from compensation and employment details to changes in a person's role or location, already lives in the workforce record. Bringing payroll into that same foundation means companies can keep their workforce data connected while reducing the manual work involved in keeping information up to date. "Everything required to pay someone correctly is the consequence of events the system of record already owns," said Giovanni Luperti, CEO and co-founder of Humaans. "Someone joins, moves state, gets promoted, changes compensation, takes leave or receives a bonus. Yet every pay cycle, teams still spend enormous amounts of time reconstructing that context for payroll. Daily Sports Club think payroll should begin the moment something changes in the workforce, not when someone sits down at the end of the pay cycle to prepare it." Deepening Humaans' US expansion The US has become an increasingly important market for Humaans, and the company is investing more heavily in its presence there. A growing share of its customers are based in the US, while many of the international organizations it works with already have employees there or are expanding into the market. Payroll is a natural extension of that growth. Managing employees across multiple states brings added complexity around taxes, benefits, employment arrangements and workforce changes, much of which still sits across disconnected systems. Much of the market is still built around legacy systems, and Humaans sees an opportunity to take a different approach, combining better infrastructure and connected workforce data with automation and AI. "The US is a market we care deeply about," said Luperti. "We're seeing growing demand both from US companies and from international organizations expanding here. We want Humaans to support those companies as they grow, while keeping their workforce data and operations deeply connected as they scale." More broadly, Humaans believes AI will push organizations to rethink both how they operate and the technology they rely on. That thinking extends to payroll, where the goal is to move beyond simply digitizing the same monthly processes and instead build a system around an accurate workforce record from the start. Payroll built for US complexity Humaans Payroll will support businesses across all 50 states and Washington, DC, including W-2 employees and 1099 contractors. It will support weekly, biweekly, semimonthly, monthly, quarterly and annual pay cadences, with tax calculations, payments and filings built directly into the payroll experience. Changes to compensation, employment, location and leave will flow directly from the workforce record into payroll, carrying the relevant effective dates and approvals with them. For People and Finance teams, that means less manual preparation and reconciliation, fewer opportunities for errors, and a much clearer path from workforce change to payday. Beyond systems of record: Building for the AI era Humaans believes AI fundamentally changes what a workforce software is capable of. Rather than simply recording information or helping people complete tasks, softwares can increasingly understand context, navigate workflows and take action on behalf of HR teams. Athena is designed to address this by taking on administrative work and coordinating workflows. Payroll isn't just another product for Humaans. It gives the platform another important area where workforce changes can be understood and acted on automatically. Over time, a promotion, for example, could automatically trigger the relevant compensation workflow, assess its impact on payroll, prepare the necessary changes, flag any exceptions, and surface only the decisions that require human judgment or approval. "We don't believe the next generation of workplace technology will look like today's SaaS products with an AI assistant added on top," said Luperti. "AI changes what software itself can do, from giving people better tools to understanding context, reasoning across systems and increasingly executing work on their behalf. That's the shift we're designing Humaans around." Availability Humaans Payroll will begin rolling out with its first US customers this fall. Companies interested in joining the initial rollout can contact Humaans to learn more. For companies operating outside the US, Humaans will continue to support payroll through its ecosystem of integrations with both local and global payroll providers. About Humaans Humaans is building the next generation of workforce technology for scaling and global organizations. Its platform brings together a flexible system of record, connected workforce data, automation, and AI to help companies manage their people and automate more of the operational work that surrounds them. Humaans is also the company behind Athena, its system-agnostic agentic AI platform that enables organizations to deploy AI agents across People, IT and Finance and across the systems they already use. Headquartered in London with a growing presence in the US, Humaans is backed by investors including Y Combinator, Lachy Groom, Exor, Moonfire, and Frontline Ventures. 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Humaans unveils Athena: the Agentic AI platform redefining how companies get work done. GetNews - TGAM - GetNews - Wed Nov 12, 7:28PM CST Humaans, the company behind one of the most loved and design-forward HR systems on the market, announced today the launch of Athena, a new AI platform built to transform how HR functions and organizations operate. Athena introduces a new category of enterprise software: Agentic AI for HR and Operations - a foundational step toward fully AI-native organizations. For the past two decades, enterprise software has been static. Systems dictated rigid processes, and companies reshaped themselves to fit the vendor's mould; but the world has changed. In just five years, organizations have had to reinvent themselves for remote work, hyper-growth, layoffs, efficiency mandates, and now, AI-driven automation. The rate of change has outpaced the rigidity of legacy systems. Athena represents the new cycle of enterprise software - one that is fluid, adaptive, and orchestrated through intelligent agents that assist employees at scale and act on data, not just storing it. Built on Humaans' best-in-class HR foundation and designed to work seamlessly with any HRIS and other systems, Athena turns data into action. It uses agentic AI to autonomously run routine processes, handle repetitive tasks, surface actionable insights, and amplify the impact of every HR, Finance, Ops, and IT team. "We're entering a new product era," said Giovanni Luperti, CEO and Co-Founder of Humaans. "The last generation of SaaS software was prescriptive - it told you how to work. The next generation will be open-ended and adaptive, built around how your organization actually operates. Humaans Athena is designed for AI-native enterprises that need flexibility, speed, and intelligence in every process." With Athena, Humaans is giving companies a scalable extension of their workforce; a layer of intelligent automation that saves thousands of hours and operates at a fraction of the human cost. By eradicating manual work, Athena helps organizations meet today's efficiency mandates and reallocate time toward strategy, creativity, and growth, the true drivers of performance in the AI era. At its core, Humaans now combines two foundational layers for the AI-native enterprise: This dual architecture allows Humaans to act as both the brain and the nervous system of today's organizations, enabling seamless automation across onboarding, performance management, approvals, contract management, compliance, and more. Early use cases demonstrate how Athena reshapes day-to-day operations: - Intelligent Onboarding: Athena autonomously creates and sequences onboarding workflows, loops in managers, and schedules the right events, adapting to each team's structure, location, and needs. - Data Intelligence: By connecting different systems, Athena can surface trends, identify risk areas, and collect additional intel to help take actions. - Workflow Automation: HR and Ops teams can describe what they need in natural language: "Set up an offboarding workflow for departing engineers in EMEA". Athena builds and deploys the process instantly. - Helpdesk Agent: Athena acts as a conversational teammate that answers people-related questions, triggers workflows, and provides context in real time. Always on and available 24/7, it resolves up to 70% of queries autonomously and helps teams handle the rest faster and more efficiently. "HR, Finance, Ops, and IT are full of inefficiencies," said Luperti. "AI agents can unlock massive productivity and fundamentally reshape how these teams operate. Athena starts by capturing ownership of workflows legacy systems can't support, and progressively transforms how the enterprise functions." Athena marks the beginning of a new software category; one that bridges the gap between traditional systems of record and the new wave of agentic automation. Unlike legacy HR platforms, Athena doesn't store data, it acts on it. It understands context, adapts to change, and orchestrates work across systems. All driven by a natural language user experience. "Incumbents can't adapt to this new cycle," added Luperti. "Their architectures are old, their release cycles slow, and they weren't built for a world that reorganizes itself every six months. Athena is designed for the organizations building the future, the ones who see AI as an extension of their workforce, not a bolt-on." Athena is currently available in private access with select Enterprise customers. Humaans plans to expand access this Fall as part of its broader vision to build the AI-native workplace stack, redefining how companies manage, automate, and scale their people operations in the age of intelligent software. About Humaans Humaans is building the next generation of HR infrastructure: flexible, powerful, data-driven, and beautifully designed. Trusted by some of the world's most forward-thinking Mid-Market companies, including Lovable, Poolside, and Quantexa, Humaans helps organizations automate processes, connect systems, and drive performance. Headquartered in London, Humaans is backed by leading investors including Y Combinator, Lachy Groom, Moonfire, Frontline, and Exor, and is now pioneering the future of agentic AI for Enterprises with Athena. Company Name: Humaans This article contains syndicated content. 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