Founding People Operations Lead

We are looking for a People Operations Lead with 4-8 years of experience to build FurtherAI's People function from the ground up. You'll be the founding people hire at a YC and a16z-backed AI startup disrupting the trillion-dollar insurance industry, owning everything from onboarding to org design to employee relations as we scale from ~30 to 100+ employees.

What will you be doing?

- Building the onboarding experience from scratch — this is currently the biggest gap and your first priority

- Owning all employee relations, taking HR responsibilities off the Chief of Staff's plate

- Designing org structure, leveling, compensation frameworks, and performance cycles for both GTM and Engineering orgs

- Managing visa/immigration coordination across US, London, and India with outside counsel

- Defining what "good" looks like — building performance management processes and career progression paths company-wide

Key Requirements

- 4-8 years of People Ops/HR experience with a track record of building the function from scratch at an early-stage, high-growth startup (first 50-100 employees)

- Recognizable brand-name startup experience — if the hiring manager hasn't heard of the company, it's an automatic rejection

- Clear career progression (promoted within roles, no job-hopping) and a bachelor's degree minimum

- Must be on-site 5 days/week in San Francisco's Financial District — absolutely non-negotiable

- Optimistic, high-energy personality with a bias toward execution — not someone who is overly cautious or pessimistic