Head of People

Join LILT, a leading AI-powered translation platform, as the Head of People. In this strategic role, you will cultivate a high-performance and healthy workplace, report directly to the CEO, and be a member of the Exec Ops Team. You will be responsible for recruiting and developing niche talent, shaping the narrative through effective communication, and building and running the People function. This position requires a minimum of a BA/BS, proven growth-stage tech experience, and international leadership experience.

Cultivating and sustaining a workplace that is both healthy and high-performance, focusing on leadership and talent strategy.

Recruiting and developing niche talent, particularly in the areas of AI and modern software innovation.

Building and running the People function, including writing policies, driving the review cycle, and solving day-to-day issues directly.

Talent / recruiting genius: your zone of genius is recruiting and developing niche talent. Our business requires a unique blend of operating rigor, extreme quality control, and flexibility

Strategic communicator: you know how to own and shape the narrative through the layers of leadership and down to ICs. Your written and oral communications would impress the head of PR!

Builder and hands-on operator: strategy is only half the job. You'll be building and running the People function with your own hands — writing the policies, driving the review cycle, and solving the day-to-day issues directly, not just setting direction for a team to execute. You're energized by doing the work, not only shaping it

Truthseeking: demands candid truths vs. kind lies

About Lilt

Managing workplace health and flourishing as a product: you can articulate a plan for iterating on and improving the workplace health and vitality so that we’re the most compelling place to work in our market

Excited about in-office: we’re in-office three days a week. You’re stoked about this and have lots of ideas for building an energetic, generative in-office experience

High Business IQ: you work backward from a thorough understanding of the business and its goals to the People strategy

Find a way or make one: Our core virtue. You own it and solve it; nothing is somebody else's problem; you don't wait for a playbook — you build one. This is the single trait most predictive of success at LILT

High Agency / Relentless: you can get in the mud, resolve the messy problems, and by doing so you become a trusted confidant of both executives and employees

Proven growth-stage tech experience: This won’t be your first startup with the growth expectations of Tier 1 investors. Strategic thinker with the ability to translate business goals into actionable people strategies

International leadership: 50% of our workforce is in Europe, and we have contractors in LATAM and APAC. Developing cohesive teams across very different work cultures isn’t new for you

(highly preferred) Evaluating and integrating teams via acquihires and/or small acquisitions

Responsibilities

• Operator mindset: you know all of the roles/processes/tools in the People function and what good looks like for each

Requirements

• Competitive: you know that high performance begets high performance, and your whole strategy and vision are oriented around cultivating high performance and human flourishing
• Uncompromising Integrity: congruence among your values, actions, and words, and you expect this from everyone around you
• Relationship builder: relational orientation to building trust across both the executive leadership team and with the broader team
• Minimum of a BA / BS
• Autodidact for markets: Our market is at the intersection of enterprise AI, AI data, and human operations. This requires highly specialized personnel that you’re able to recruit, evaluate, and develop