San Francisco, CA · On-site (5 days/week, Dogpatch) · Full-time
Compensation: $160,000–$185,000 + competitive equity

About the Company

We're a Series A AI company building AI agents for some of the world's largest enterprise B2C companies — across voice, chat, and email — operating at real scale. The team runs lean, ships fast, and is scaling toward becoming the enterprise standard for AI-powered automation.

Founded 2024 · 11–50 people · Industry: AI Tools

The Role

We're hiring our first dedicated HR professional to own and strengthen core HR operations as the company scales. This is a greenfield, hands-on, execution-focused role. You'll own the day-to-day HR function — employee lifecycle, compliance, and partnership with benefits providers and employment counsel — building the operational foundations first, then expanding into broader people programs as the function matures.

What you'll be doing

• Own the full employee lifecycle: onboarding end to end, role changes, offboarding, and terminations
• Maintain employment documentation and records (offer letters, employment agreements, separation materials)
• Keep the HRIS clean, current, and accurate as the source of truth
• Serve as the primary internal owner for HR processes, including with external vendors and outside counsel
• Apply California employment law to guide HR decisions, especially around in-person workplace requirements
• Handle employee transitions, terminations, and severance with consistency, care, and judgment
• Own benefits administration (health, retirement) and manage broker/provider relationships
• Partner closely with Finance — sometimes leading — on payroll accuracy and compliance
• Build and document scalable HR workflows where processes are currently informal
• As the function matures, take on broader people programs (performance management, manager enablement, employee experience)

Systems: Rippling (HRIS) or equivalent

Requirements

• 4–6 years HR (earlier career), first or second HR hire at a Series A or B startup
• California employment law fluency
• Rippling or equivalent HRIS
• Payroll fundamentals, Finance partnership
• Handles terminations and severance with judgment
• SF Dogpatch, 5 days in-person

Green Flags

• Multi-state or scaling-company employment exposure.
• Experience building or supporting performance management processes.
• Experience with broader People Operations initiatives (manager enablement, engagement, culture, employee experience)
• Strong appetite to invest in culture and people programs over time.

Red Flags

• Career HR at a large, structured team (Google, Meta, Amazon HR org types)
• No prior one-of-one HR ownership.
• Weak or no California employment law grounding.
• Not ready for the pace or the in-person model
• Currently at a customer of the company, especially smaller customers.

Why Join

• Greenfield first HR hire — own and build the entire People function with real ownership and runway to grow.
• High-momentum, well-funded Series A AI company with enterprise customers.
• Build the foundations first, then broaden into culture, manager enablement, and employee experience.

Benefits & Perks

• Daily catered lunch
• Dinner stipend
• $150 monthly wellness benefit
• 401k plan
• Commuter benefits
• Medical, dental & vision coverage