HR Manager - First People Hire for Growing Startup

As the first dedicated HR/Recruiting professional, you’ll wear many hats: driving full-cycle recruiting, designing performance systems, and ensuring compliance while building scalable people practices. This is ideal for someone who thrives in a fast-changing environment and loves the balance of hands-on execution and long-term planning.

What You’ll Do:

Hiring & Recruiting

• Own end-to-end recruiting: sourcing, interviewing, and keeping the candidate experience seamless
• Partner with hiring managers on compelling job descriptions and structured interview plans
• Build scalable hiring processes to keep quality high and the experience human
• Track and analyze hiring metrics to continually improve

Performance & Growth

• Lead a fair, simple performance review process that supports growth
• Help create leveling frameworks and growth paths for team members
• Coach managers on having constructive performance conversations

People Operations

• Manage onboarding/offboarding to ensure smooth transitions
• Maintain HR systems and employee records (clarity and organization are your superpowers)
• Collaborate with finance on payroll, benefits, and time-off tracking
• Find efficiencies and elevate processes as the team grows

Policies & Compliance

• Keep handbooks and policies up to date and compliant across multiple states
• Stay ahead of employment laws and handle employee relations with professionalism

What We’re Looking For:

• 5+ years in HR/People Ops (bonus if you’ve scaled startups or worked in CPG)
• Confident leading recruiting and HR processes in a fast-moving environment
• Empathetic, organized, and comfortable working independently
• Familiarity with tools like Rippling, Asana, or similar (or quick to learn)
• Energized by ambiguity and passionate about building systems that scale

Why Join?

• Flexibility: Set a schedule that works for you—we focus on outcomes, not hours
• Impact: Shape the team and culture during a pivotal growth phase
• Autonomy: Own your function with trust and support from leadership
• Mission-Driven: Join a brand that’s redefining wellness and sustainability for the next generation
• Fun & Fast-Paced: We celebrate wins, learn quickly, and enjoy the ride

If you’re excited to help a rising CPG brand scale its team and culture the right way, let’s talk. This is a contract-to-hire role starting with a 3-month trial period.

Compensation: $100,000 - $130,000 annually