Salary
💰 €70,000 - €100,000 per year
About the role
- Design and build People philosophy from scratch defining exceptional employee experience in an AI-first company
- Build lightweight but scalable processes across onboarding, performance, career development, and employee engagement
- Implement and manage HR operations including payroll, benefits, HRIS, and compliance across multiple geographies
- Partner with Finance and Operations for payroll, compensation, and workforce planning workflows
- Own policies, documentation, and frameworks to create clarity, fairness, and consistency
- Create a world-class onboarding program
- Design and drive engagement initiatives fostering belonging, connection, and collaboration across Paris, SF, and NYC
- Define and bring to life Employee Value Proposition (EVP)
- Shape rituals, events, and offsites
- Champion inclusion and high performance in an engineering-driven, global team
- Partner with founders and leadership on organizational design, team structures, and manager enablement
- Develop and advise on compensation philosophy, benefits, and equity frameworks
- Leverage data and people analytics to provide insights on engagement, retention, and performance
- Align People initiatives with business priorities
- Act as a trusted advisor to leadership helping scale teams while protecting culture and values
Requirements
- 6+ years in People roles, with proven experience designing and implementing foundational people processes (onboarding, performance, engagement, compensation, HR operations) in a company with a strong engineering culture
- Experience helping a company grow from ~30–50 employees to 100+ employees as a first People hire or #2
- Experience working with distributed teams across multiple geographies (ideally US and Europe) and navigating local HR/regulatory differences
- Hands-on experience running HR operations such as payroll, benefits, HRIS, compliance, and policy creation
- Proven ability to connect People programs to business impact and partner with Finance, Operations, and Leadership
- Comfortable working directly with founders and execs as a trusted advisor on org design, team performance, and manager enablement
- Skilled at implementing HR/People tools and designing scalable, automated processes
- Confident using people analytics to inform decisions, measure success, and influence leadership
- Passionate about designing employee experiences that foster inclusion, belonging, and high performance
- Product mindset and willingness to use Dust to innovate on People practices
- Excited to explore and adopt AI to optimize people operations