Senior Director, People

The Role

You'll design the people systems and processes our company scales and thrives on: how we level and pay, how we onboard, how we grow and promote, and how we manage performance. The raw material is strong — a high-talent team, support for modern tooling, and leaders who care about performance as much as you do.

This is a builder's seat, not a maintenance role. You'll report directly to our CEO, with the mandate and autonomy to shape how Doxel hires, develops, and retains talent as we scale — and the trust to build it right the first time.

Your Day To Day

• Talent engine. Recruiting execution has dedicated owners — you make the machine around them world-class: hiring velocity, interview quality, decision discipline, and a candidate experience that closes the people we want most.
• Performance Management, Career Pathing & Manager Development. Partner with Finance on leveling architecture and benchmarking (Pave/Carta); design offer strategy. Own and evolve our career pathing framework so growth criteria at every level are clear and defensible. Run merit and promotion cycles end to end, including calibration. Directly coach and develop our people managers — especially first-time managers — through performance conversations, calibration, and promotion decisions.
• People platform (HRIS). Rippling is our HRIS and you own it: job architecture, approval workflows, onboarding that impresses on day one, offboarding that's airtight.
• Employee Relations. Be the first line on ER issues — investigations, conflict escalation, terminations — handled with rigor and fairness, and coach managers through difficult situations before they escalate.
• Benefits, total rewards & employee support. Own benefits strategy and annual renewals with our broker, 401(k) administration, and payroll operations across [confirm: two countries, or more — flagging the discrepancy with the "11+ countries" line elsewhere]. Make our rewards competitive, understood, and efficient. Support immigration needs (H-1B and related, with dedicated outside counsel), mobility.
• Learning & Development. We have a track record of growing up-and-coming managers into senior leaders. You will own and grow the learning & development program to scale this success.

We hire and promote on one criterion: the best person for every job. We expect our People leader to build systems that are rigorously fair and rigorously excellent, and to keep the function anchored to mission and merit.

What Success Looks Like

You're hungry to build from the ground up and partner directly with the CEO on a daily basis
A true generalist with depth: credible on career pathing conversations comp architecture one day, an immigration case the next, an HRIS workflow redesign the day after
A player/coach. You build the model, configure the system, and run the process yourself — then systematize so it scales
Experienced with multi-entity or international operations is a big plus
Fluent in modern people tooling — Rippling or comparable HRIS; Pave/Carta
Trusted at both altitudes: executives & employees 

What You Bring

• 10+ years of blended Recruit