About the position
Promptfoo is the leading AI security testing platform, helping 250,000+ developers build secure, reliable AI applications. Backed by Insight Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, we help the world’s largest enterprises adapt AI-specific pentesting techniques to your application, providing automated red teaming, vulnerability scanning, and continuous monitoring for LLM-based systems. You will own our talent engine and core people operations as we scale from 17 to 50+ employees over the next 12 months. You'll run end-to-end recruiting, sourcing, closing, and coordinating external recruiters, build the essential people infrastructure (onboarding, comp, performance) that keeps a fast-growing team aligned and effective, and help shape culture deliberately as we grow.
Responsibilities
• Recruiting and hiring Own end-to-end recruiting: process, pipeline, scheduling, scorecards, interview kits, SLAs, weekly funnel reviews
• Manage and coordinate external recruiters: negotiate agreements, run weekly syncs
• Track metrics: pass-through rates, time-to-hire, offer acceptance, quality-of-hire, cost-per-hire, first-90-day ramp, regretted attrition
• People ops and compliance Maintain HR compliance
• Run hybrid onboarding with run-books for in-office and remote hires. Build 30/60/90 templates
• Manage PEO relationship, handbook, and benefits
• Coordinate team events, manage travel logistics, handle miscellaneous people ops
• Comp, leveling, and performance Build leveling framework and pay bands
• Document promotion criteria and refresh/equity policy
• Implement light quarterly reviews/formal annual reviews, ongoing feedback loops, and manager toolkits
• Partner with Finance on headcount planning
• Culture and coordination Design rituals that reinforce company values and make hybrid work effective
• Run engagement pulses Host candidate onsites and coordinate team offsites
Requirements
• 5-7+ years in People Ops and recruiting, with at least one early-stage tour (Series A-C)
• Proven track record building recruiting engines, including sourcing candidates / recruiters, structuring interviewing processes, and closing candidates, and raising hiring quality at startups
• Experience managing external recruiting agencies
• California compliance literacy: harassment training, pay-range transparency, wage-hour basics, CPRA requirements
• Comp and equity fluency with Carta, Pave, or similar benchmark tools; experience with HRIS platforms like Rippling and ATS systems like Ashby
• Full-cycle recruiting experience: sourcing, closing candidates, structured interviews
• Strong operations skills: ability to manage multiple moving pieces and prevent things from falling through cracks
• Clear, concise communicator, data-driven, and high agency
Nice-to-haves
• experience with hybrid teams
• technical recruiting for engineering roles
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