Head of People
About the role
Head of People at Ultra, a robotics startup, responsible for building and scaling the company’s recruiting, people operations, compensation programs, and culture in a fast-growing, multi-location environment.
Responsibilities
- Build a world-class recruiting function: Hiring is your highest-leverage responsibility. You’ll own recruiting strategy, process, and execution across engineering, research, operations, and go-to-market.
- Create the operating system for our people function: Implement and own HRIS, payroll, benefits, onboarding, performance reviews, immigration, compliance, and everything else required to support a rapidly growing company.
- Design compensation and career progression: Own leveling, salary bands, equity refreshes, promotions, and performance cycles. Help ensure we can attract exceptional talent while maintaining fairness and discipline as we scale.
Qualifications
- Built or led the People function at a high-growth startup, ideally scaling from tens to hundreds.
- Personally recruited exceptional technical talent.
- Experience supporting organizations with physical operations—hardware, manufacturing, logistics, field service, or similar.
- Deep understanding of compensation, leveling, equity, and performance management in venture-backed companies.
- Experience implementing HR systems, payroll, benefits, and employment infrastructure.
About Ultra
Practical, general-purpose robots for repetitive industrial tasks
Ultra builds practical, general-purpose robots that are deploying—and producing ROI—today. Unlike traditional industrial automation that’s rigid and complex, our robots are zero integration (able to be installed in hours, not weeks) and are highly flexible, capable of quickly learning new tasks and delivering immediate value to customers. Founded by a team of three-time entrepreneurs with a decade of collaboration, Ultra moves fast. We already have robots in the field generating revenue and data, with plans to rapidly scale deployments this year.
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