HR Director
$160000 - $200000 + bonus + equity
Remote
Profitable interview marketplace scale-up
Howrecruit is proud to represent a scale-up technology company that offers cleaning services via a platform-based booking system. Their mission is to create better lives by being the most efficient platform for home services. They are the number 1 in the US and complete a clean every 13 seconds. They are bootstrapped, profitable and growing (in fact, they doubled revenue nine years in a row).
You will be their first HR hire and have the opportunity to have a widespread impact from day one. This team is led by some of the smartest people I have met, and their data-driven approach has set them up to do incredible things. You will build the foundational HR processes that enable them to continue their amazing growth story. If you like working with brilliant people at the top of their game, this is the one for you 😀.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and lead the company’s overall remote people strategy, aligned with rapid marketplace growth and product innovation.
- Partner closely with the engineering to optimise organisational design, headcount planning, and team structure.
- Be a thought partner on how to scale a distributed, cross-functional workforce across engineering, product, and operations.
- Build onboarding, career development, and retention programs.
- Implement performance management systems with clear metrics around productivity and impact.
- Foster a mission-driven, inclusive, and resilient culture that appeals to both the remote high-performing full-time team and our offshore contractor network of customer service and sales agents.
- Launch initiatives to improve collaboration, communication, and manager effectiveness, particularly for distributed remote-first teams.
- Oversee compensation strategy, benefits, HR systems, and compliance across multiple states and countries.
- Develop a robust set of policies and benefits to support a fully self-managed contractor network of customer service and sales agents in the Philippines.
Required experience:
- Ideally, 8+ years of HR experience, ideally in venture-backed tech companies or marketplaces.
- Ideall,y 3+ years in a leadership HR role, working closely with engineering/product teams.
- Experience building HR foundations in fast-scaling companies, ideally with exposure to gig or
two-sided marketplace models.
- Proven ability to recruit, engage, and retain technical talent in competitive hiring markets.
- Strong grasp of remote work dynamics and scaling people operations in distributed teams.
- Empathetic, data-informed, and strategic with excellent communication and stakeholder
management skills.
Why Join ?
- Help shape the future of flexible work and economic empowerment.-
- Own and scale the people function at one of the fastest-growing gig economy platforms.
- Join a mission-driven team with strong values and ambitious goals.
- Competitive salary, equity, and benefits in a high-growth, fully remote environment
If you are ready to be the founding member of a HR team at a really innovative company, solving real-world challenges, I would love to hear from you.
