Make Rain

Head of People

El Segundo, CA · Exec

Sponsorship not specified$180k-$250kDetected 127 days ago

Performance ManagementEmployee RelationsHRISRoboticsSensorsResearchLeadershipCommunicationMentoring

About the role

Our work requires scientific rigor, technical excellence, disciplined execution, and strong cross-functional communication across the cross-functional teams.

Build Rainmaker's People operating system
You will define and implement the core systems that help Rainmaker scale: performance management, manager expectations, feedback norms, onboarding, compensation, employee communications, team operating documents, talent reviews, HR infrastructure, and leadership operating cadences.
Partner with the executive team on organization design
Build scalable HR infrastructure
You should know how to build durable systems, work effectively with counsel and external partners, and ensure that People operations are clean, reliable, and scalable.
Design and run performance management
Rainmaker needs a system that supports high standards without creating corporate theater. The process should help managers make better decisions, employees understand what great looks like, and leadership identify talent risks early.
You will own the systems and processes that allow Rainmaker to operate professionally and compliantly as it grows.
Rainmaker needs a system that supports high standards without creating corporate theater.
Own compensation, leveling, and rewards infrastructure

Exceptional communication, judgment, and follow-through, with the ability to earn trust across technical, scientific, operational, and executive teams while creating structure without unnecessary bureaucracy.

Experience supporting technical, scientific, aerospace, robotics, aviation, defense, climate, deep tech, biotech, hard tech, or similarly complex multidisciplinary organizations.
Experience scaling a company through meaningful headcount growth, especially from an early-stage or founder-led environment into a more structured operating company.
Experience managing or partnering closely with a Talent/Recruiting function, including connecting hiring plans to workforce planning, compensation, onboarding, manager readiness, and company priorities.
Experience designing or implementing HRIS, performance management, compensation, people analytics, or employee lifecycle systems appropriate for a scaling organization.

Rainmaker is pioneering a modern cloud seeding system to mitigate water scarcity and inclement weather.
Rainmaker is a high-performance research, engineering, and operations company.

This role will own the company's People operating system: organizational design, workforce planning, manager effectiveness, performance management, compensation, HR operations, employee relations, compliance, onboarding, people analytics, a

This includes HRIS, employee records, onboarding and offboarding, employment documentation, benefits administration, workplace policies, compliance, employment practices, and vendor management.
You will partner directly with executives and managers on team health, performance issues, communication gaps, role clarity, organizational risks, employee relations, and manager effectiveness.
You will design and maintain compensation structures, equity frameworks, leveling, promotion practices, and benefits programs that are competitive, financially responsible, and aligned with Rainmaker's stage.

organizational design, workforce planning, manager effectiveness, performance management, compensation, HR operations, employee relations, compliance, onboarding, people analytics, and scalable people processes.
The Head of People will partner closely with the executive team to ensure that Rainmaker's structure, management systems, and culture evolve as the company grows.
Rainmaker is still defining many of its operating norms, management systems, and people processes.
The right person will be able to create practical infrastructure without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
They should be equally comfortable advising the CEO on organization design, coaching managers through difficult people issues, building compensation and performance systems, and ensuring the company has clean, compliant, scalable HR operations.

This listing is sourced directly from Make Rain's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.