People & Culture Manager
Hardal | We're hiring! 🌿
full-time
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Location Type: Remote
Location: United States
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About the role
- Design and lead the end-to-end hiring process sourcing, outreach, competency-based interviews, and closing across technical and non-technical roles
- Build and own our onboarding program so every new hire hits the ground running and feels genuinely welcomed from day one
- Shape and protect Hardal's culture as we scale translating our values into tangible rituals, practices, and ways of working
- Be the connective tissue of the team noticing tensions early, supporting people through challenges, and keeping the pulse of the organization
- Own HR operations: employment contracts, compliance, policies, and the administrative backbone that keeps things running smoothly
- Partner with founders and team leads on org design, performance feedback, and people development
- Manage and improve our talent pipeline and recruitment tooling to help us hire faster and smarter
- Own and evolve the Hardal Handbook, keeping it accurate, alive, and genuinely useful as our cultural north star as the company grows
- Contribute to Hardal's employer brand, helping us attract exceptional people who share our values
Requirements
- Proven hands-on recruiting experience you've run the full cycle, not just screened CVs
- Deep fluency in competency-based interviewing you know how to separate signal from noise in a 45-minute conversation
- Strong situational awareness you read the room naturally, understand team dynamics, and notice what isn't being said
- High empathy paired with analytical thinking you care deeply about people and can still make sharp, data-informed decisions
- Comfortable with operational processes like onboarding, contracts, scheduling, and whatever else needs doing today
- Excellent written and spoken English, you'll communicate with candidates and partners across multiple geographies
- Familiarity with LinkedIn, join, different ATS tools
- Startup DNA: you create structure where none exists and don't wait to be told what to do
Benefits
- Work directly with the founders at a pivotal stage of growth
- Collaborative, no-BS team culture with high standards and genuine trust
- Home-office setup support
- Flexible working hours
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
Tip: use these terms in your resume and cover letter to boost ATS matches.
Hard Skills & Tools
competency-based interviewingrecruitmentonboardingemployment contractscomplianceperformance feedbackpeople developmenttalent pipeline managementdata-informed decision making
Soft Skills
situational awarenessempathyanalytical thinkingcommunicationteam dynamicsproblem-solvingorganizational awarenessadaptabilityleadership