Director of People

Summary

Join Voltage Park, a cloud provider offering transparent GPU access, as their Director of People! This remote role (based in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Seattle, or Chicago) focuses on shaping employee experience in a fast-growing startup. You will lead the People team, overseeing talent management, workplace environment design, and cultural development. Collaborate with the Head of Talent to ensure a smooth transition for new hires and maintain a strong connection between employee lifecycle and recruitment. As a player/coach, you will also provide HRBP support to managers, guiding them through change management, performance coaching, and legal compliance. This role requires significant experience in HR, particularly in scaling, distributed, engineering-driven environments. Your expertise will directly impact employee capability, retention, and the overall positive and high-performing culture.

Requirements

• 10+ years of HR experience, with at least 3-5 years in senior or director-level roles at growth stage, highly-distributed, engineering-driven environments
• Experience building and maintaining a high-performance, inclusive company culture that emphasizes accountability, growth, and employee well-being
• Deep understanding of compensation strategy, performance management, and learning & development with a focus on equity and employee growth
• Proven experience in designing and implementing HR systems, performance management frameworks, and compensation programs
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and empower leaders across the organization
• Experience unifying a workforce distributed across office space, physical work environments (e.g. data centers), and remote positions
• Strong knowledge of HR best practices, compliance, and employment law – especially as it pertains to equitable hiring and performance management
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills; ability to clearly and concisely explain problems and solutions to both technical and non-technical audiences
• This is a fully remote role (with some travel required 1-2x a quarter), but the requirement is for candidates to be based where we index higher on team members (SF, LA, Chicago, SEA)

Responsibilities

• Empower company leaders to retain, manage, and equitably advance talent through competitive compensation, performance systems, strategic planning, and learning & development
• Design, implement, and maintain the systems, platforms, data, processes, and places that contribute to a highly-functioning workplace environment
• Influence the people-centric practices that translate into Voltage Park culture (Values-driven, growth-minded, highly-accountable, thoughtfully inclusive)
• As a Director of People, you will be accountable for the strategy, planning, and achievement of the People Team mandate, including the management of the team responsible for its execution
• You will work closely with our Head of Talent to develop strategies and vision for delivering a seamless transition from candidate to team member, and to ensure connective tissue between the employee lifecycle and the recruitment of talent
• As Voltage Park is in the early stages of our scaling journey, you will also act as a player/coach. In particular, you will act as an HRBP to our managers to ensure they are fully supported through change management, performance coaching, and any matters of legal compliance

Preferred Qualifications

• HR certifications (e.g., SHRM-SCP, SPHR, or similar) are a plus
• Experience meaningfully integrating AI into the employee experience
• Experience working at companies in HPC and/or Cloud Computing
• Experience with skilled physical labor workforce (e.g. data center technicians)
• Belief in building equitable and inclusive culture reflective of the world we serve