HartleyCo · 11 hours ago
Head of People & Culture
San Francisco Bay Area
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
$150K/yr - $250K/yrHartleyCo is a YC-backed, AI-native company seeking to scale from 30 to 75-100 employees. The Head of People & Culture will own the people function, focusing on talent strategy, hiring execution, and establishing structured people operations as the company grows.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Josh Kelly
Responsibilities
Own recruiting strategy and process as headcount ramps
Build consistent, founder-grade hiring workflows
Ensure high-signal, high-velocity hiring without quality dropping
Set up and manage benefits and group health
Handle employment fundamentals with appropriate legal awareness
Avoid early-stage compliance mistakes (wage/hour, contracts, policies)
Own expense policies and internal people processes
Manage housing/relocation logistics (company-run housing with multiple leases)
Be the central point of accountability for people operations as the org scales
Move the company from 'scrappy and fragmented' to 'structured but still fast'
Qualification
Required
Previously led People / Talent at a scaling startup (Seed → Series A → Series B, or similar)
Has personally supported hiring 10-20+ people during a growth phase
Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building from zero
Pragmatic, commercial, and founder-aligned
Not afraid to roll up sleeves early, but capable of designing for scale
Benefits
Set up and manage benefits and group health
Company
HartleyCo
Founded in 2019, HartleyCo is a boutique Technology and Finance Search Firm.
Founded in 2019
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase