Salary Range: 175000 to 220000 (Currency: USD) (Pay period: per-year-salary)

What you’ll do:

• Design and implement core people programs such as performance reviews, onboarding training, management coaching, and employee relations procedures.
• Understand business priorities and translate them into an HR agenda that supports the business as it grows. 
• Partner with leadership to teach, coach, and cultivate the culture by ensuring our principles are taught, lived, and integrated in each component of people practices.
• Assess training needs, partner with external vendors where needed and/or build training internally, and deliver on the high-impact programs to enable the team to keep growing.
• Develop resources and standards around employee counseling and engagement, performance management, and policies.
• Manage and resolve complex employee relations issues. Conducts effective, thorough, and objective investigations.
• Manage our immigration process, partnering with our external immigration firm to support our international employees.
• Manage our HR systems, always assessing the quality of each and ensuring we are maximizing the value of each.
• Maintain in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. Partner with our external legal firm as needed/required.
• Meet regularly with management and employees to ensure business objectives, performance and employee satisfaction are aligned.
• Provide day-to-day performance management guidance to line management (e.g., coaching, counseling, career development, disciplinary actions).
• Assess our benefits plans and price other options in the marketplace to ensure we offer the best benefits we can afford for our size and location.
• Assess and partner with various L&D platforms (ie. Udemy, LinkedIn Learning) and make suggest trainings to help the development of our team.

What you’ll need:

• 7+ years of progressive HR leadership experience in a technical company, preferred.
• A true love for working with people, getting to know them, and being intrinsically motivated to help them succeed.
• A flexible skill set, including the ability to think strategically, execute tactically, and collaborate across many teams, levels, and situations.
• The ability to successfully monitor the "pulse" of Atomizers to ensure a high level of employee engagement.
• Deep understanding of diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging principles and their application in team building and collaboration.
• Experience in CA people practices laws and best practices for a startup tech company.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with a love for spreadsheets and using data to drive decisions.    
• Strong organizational skills with the ability to work under pressure and meet deadlines.
• Proven experience in managing a diverse workforce and scaling the people operations function in a fast-growing company.
• High level of discretion, confidentiality, and ethics.
• Ability to cope well with ambiguity and change in a dynamic environment.
• Excellent communication skills, including extensive experience meeting and presenting to senior executives.
• Ability to work from our Santa Clara office daily with periodic trips to our Berkeley office.
• B.S. in Human Resources, Business Management, or a related field.