Head of HR

About vCluster Labs

We are a venture-backed tech startup striving to be the leading force in enabling platform engineers. We raised +$30M from top-tier VCs such as Khosla Ventures (first investor in OpenAI, GitLab, Stripe, Doordash) and are in a hyper-growth phase looking for motivated people to complement our team. Our headquarters are in San Francisco (Salesforce Tower), but our team is distributed around the globe and we have a remote-first work culture.

We're the company behind vCluster, an open-source technology for virtualizing Kubernetes (+10k GitHub stars). Open source is part of our DNA.

The adoption of our commercial product based on vCluster has grown extremely fast (multi-million dollar revenue) and our customer base includes some of the biggest companies in the world, including 6 Global Fortune 500 companies as well as some of the fastest-growing tech unicorns.

Responsibilities

We are looking for a Head of HR to lead and build up our recruiting and people operations functions.

• Be the first HR person at the company handling recruiting and HR topics hands-on.

• Own and manage the full-cycle recruiting process across roles and departments (sourcing, conducting & organizing interviews, offer discussion, onboarding).

• Source candidates actively through LinkedIn, referrals, etc.

• Review applications and manage the interview process in the ATS, ensuring a positive candidate experience.

• Conducting initial screening interviews with applicants, making sure they meet our requirements, and match our company culture.

• Manage and continuously improve the onboarding process for new hires.

• Oversee and structure internal people management processes (performance reviews, employee surveys, benefits management, time-off management)

• Act as a key point of contact for all HR inquiries.

• Define and standardize HR policies, internal documentation, and workflows.

• Build out the HR department and define the HR strategy.

Requirements

• Experience being the first/early HR hire in a fast-growing B2B software startup.

• Demonstrated success scaling the HR department in an international, B2B software startup (50-200 people, Series A+), combining tactical execution with strategic planning.

• Willingness to work hands-on on recruiting and people ops topics.

• Extensive experience in both recruiting and HR/People Operations.

• Proven track record of managing the full-cycle recruiting process for various roles, from deeply technical roles to go-to-market teams.

• Familiarity with international (EOR) and US employment practices.

• Experience working with ATS and HRIS, preferably Ashby and Rippling, and other modern tools, such as Slack, Google Suite, ChatGPT, and Notion.

• Flexibility to conduct interviews with candidates in different time zones (from Eastern Europe to US West).

• Good understanding of market-standard compensation, equity, and benefits across various countries and roles.

• Talent to organize and set up processes with a strong attention to detail.

• High emotional intelligence, discretion, and trustworthiness.

• Excellent communication skills and a passion for creating a positive experience for applicants and employees.

• Bonus: Experience in the cloud-native/Kubernetes industry.

Benefits

We offer the following benefits:

• Competitive Salary: We offer a competitive compensation package, including equity.

• Platinum-Level Insurance: Health, dental, vision, and life Insurance, including plans for you and eligible dependents (benefits vary depending on country).

• Flexible Working Schedule:  You have a doctor’s appointment or need to head to the supermarket to get groceries at 2pm? We won’t have an issue with that. To us, results matter more than clocking in and out at the same time every day.

• Workplace Flexibility:  We’re very flexible about where you work. We know things can change in life and we’re happy to adjust the work environment for you along the way.

Why join a startup like vCluster Labs?

Since we are a fast-moving startup, you will not be number 14,589 in our company but rather become an essential part of our team right from the start:

• Fast Application Process: We will typically get back to you within a week. No need to polish your resume for us. Just send us some links (e.g. LinkedIn, etc.), answer a few questions about your previous experiences, and hop on a quick Zoom call with one of our team members to see if you’re a good fit. We will respond quickly and make hiring decisions within days rather than months.

• Open-Minded Work Environment: You can always speak your mind - no company politics or unnecessary formalities. We are operating in a lean, honest, and efficient way and we are looking for different perspectives, constructive feedback and creative, motivated people who want to make a difference.

• Grow With The Company: We are a small company right now but we are growing incredibly fast because we work on something that has a lot of value to engineering teams in large enterprises. Joining vCluster Labs early will give you the chance to advance much faster to the next step on the career ladder than in any larger company.

• Responsibility From Day 1: You will see right from the start that your work will immediately have an impact in our company and you can shape the future of this company together with the rest of our team. Grow with us and benefit from being part of this journey from the start.

Culture & Values

At vCluster Labs, we value and stand for:

• Technical Excellence: We are determined to build best-in-class technology and ship high-quality software because we know that our users are engineers themselves.

• Customer Obsession: We are going above and beyond to make our customers and users happy, which means striving for great usability, excellent documentation and support as well as fast response times for feature requests and bug reports.

• Impressive Speed: From user feedback to shipping a new feature to address this feedback, we usually take less than a week in most cases and our users absolutely love us for this.

• Bold Innovation: We are constantly questioning the state-of-the-art to find and address important issues in our space, even if that means abandoning any existing technologies and starting from scratch again.

• Open Source & Open Mind: We are actively contributing and maintaining open-source projects and we believe that building an open-minded team culture that respects different perspectives and welcomes constructive feedback is equally paramount to our success.

vCluster Labs provides equal opportunities for all candidates. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive work environment for everyone who becomes part of our team. We are also actively promoting measures to reduce bias throughout our hiring process to ensure that everyone gets the same opportunities.