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Head of People

Tin Can· People
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Seattle$180k - $225kFull-timePosted 3w ago

About the role

Head of People responsible for building and scaling Tin Can's People function, shaping culture, and managing the end-to-end employee experience as the company grows.

Responsibilities

  • Own the full employee lifecycle — hiring, onboarding, total rewards, leveling, performance, development, and employee relations — along with the HR systems and tooling that run it, keeping what works and adding what we’ll need next
  • Partner with leaders across the company on org design and headcount planning, so our teams grow deliberately, not reactively
  • Refine the talent acquisition and hiring process with best practices that allow us to move fast and find the most qualified candidates, then enhance our onboarding so that new hires are set up for success from day one
  • Assess our total rewards and advise on our offering — compensation philosophy, bands, benchmarking, and benefits — that allows us to compete for top talent
  • Own HR compliance and administration as we add states, countries, employees, and contractors, partnering closely with Legal
  • Create a leveling framework, so promotions, hiring, and comp run off the same map
  • Stand up a consistent performance management framework and be the steady hand on employee relations: navigate sensitive situations and hard conversations with care, objectivity, and discretion
  • Measure the things that matter – identify the human capital KPIs we should be tracking at our stage, and use them to drive decision-making

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of People/HR experience, including building or scaling a People function at a high-growth startup
  • A high level of discretion, confidentiality, and ethics; people trust you with the hard stuff
  • Proven experience providing thoughtful guidance to a CEO and executive team; you see all sides of a situation and advocate strongly for employees while balancing growth, compliance, and fairness
  • Fluency using AI as a multiplier; this is how we work, not a nice-to-have
  • You can architect the People strategy and execute pieces (or all) of it yourself; capable of building and leading a small team as we scale
  • Comfortable letting people data guide decisions; engagement, attrition, and hiring metrics inform your recommendations, not just your reports
  • Working fluency in employment compliance across states and countries; experience supporting international growth, including resourcing outside the US
  • You’ve built comp bands, a leveling framework, or a performance management program and know what good looks like
  • Based in Seattle and ready to work from our office 4+ days per week; this isn’t a remote role

Skills

Required:Employee lifecycle managementOrg design & headcount planningTalent acquisition & onboardingCompensation & total rewardsHR compliance & governance

Benefits

  • Full benefits package
  • Equity participation
Last updated Sep 30, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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The super-magical Wi-Fi landline for kids

The super-magical Wi-Fi landline for kids. No screens, no texting, no strangers — just real conversation with Grandma, besties, and contacts you approve. Plug in, twirl that cord, and time-travel to pure voice fun.

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