LangChain

LangChain

Head of People Operations

San Francisco, CA · Vp · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 41 days ago
LLMsAgentic AILangGraphComplianceLogisticsEmployee RelationsHRISEmployment Law

About the role

  • We don't run People Ops the way most companies do.
  • You'll have real scope and real authority.
  • What you won't have is a 20-person HR function to route through.

Responsibilities

  • Own Rippling as the system of record. Workflow configuration, data integrity, onboarding and offboarding automation, payroll coordination. You don't just use the tool - you build it.
  • Lead global employment operations.
  • Manage EoR provider relationships, coordinate international contractor agreements, and build scalable infrastructure for hiring across geographies including the US, UK, EU, and beyond.
  • Contribute to People data and reporting. Own headcount data integrity in
  • Build and maintain LangChain's compliance layer.
  • You're the internal expert and the escalation point, and you partner with outside employment counsel when it calls for it.
  • Contribute to People data and reporting. Own headcount data integrity in Rippling and contribute to the People analytics layer: turnover reporting, onboarding metrics, and the operational data that informs People strategy.
  • Support SOC2 and audit readiness. Serve as the People Ops owner for SOC2 and related compliance audits - documenting people-related controls, ensuring they're tested, and maintaining readiness as we scale.
  • Our People function is lean by design and high-leverage by necessity.
  • We build operational systems that compound, automate the sludge, and keep the team focused on work that actually moves the company forward.

Requirements

  • 8+ years in People Ops or HR Operations, with meaningful time owning a People Ops function at a high-growth technology company through a significant scale-up phase
  • you have receipts
  • Comfort operating at multiple altitudes - you can advise the VP of People on policy architecture in the morning and fix a broken Rippling workflow in the afternoon

Skills

  • Experience at a high-growth AI or developer tools company
  • Have used or experimented with LangChain, LangSmith, or LangGraph
  • Experience standing up STD/LTD, 401(k) match, or similar benefits programs from scratch
  • Direct experience engaging outside employment counsel on policy or ER matters
  • SOC2 or similar compliance audit experience on the People side

Compensation

  • We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, variable compensation for relevant roles, meaningful equity, benefits, and perks.
  • Actual compensation and offerings will vary based on role, level, and location.
  • We offer competitive compensation that includes base salary, meaningful equity, and benefits such as health and dental coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan with employer match, phone and wellness stipends, and life insurance.
  • Actual compensation will vary based on role, level, and location.
  • Compensation Philosophy:

Benefits

  • Benefits include medical, dental, and vision coverage, flexible vacation, a 401(k) plan, meals on in-office days in the US and more.
  • For team members in the EU and UK, we provide locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.
  • You are the accountable operator for HRIS integrity, benefits administration, leave and accommodations management, compliance, and onboarding and offboarding programs.
  • Own the employee handbook, leave frameworks (medical, parental, personal), STD/LTD administration, outside activity and IP-adjacent policies, and the compliance governance behind them.
  • You'll own the mechanics and logistics of our benefits programs long-term, including STD/LTD setup and ongoing vendor management.
  • Team members in the EU, UK, and APAC receive locally competitive benefits aligned with regional norms and regulations.

Company info

  • At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous. We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on. We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale.
  • With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we're at a stage where we're continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together. LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world.
  • Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement. We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater.
  • At LangChain, our mission is to make intelligent agents ubiquitous.
  • We build the foundation for agent engineering in the real world, helping developers move from prototypes to production-ready AI agents that teams can rely on.
  • We began as widely adopted open-source tools and have grown to also offer a platform for building, evaluating, deploying, and operating agents at scale.
  • With $125M raised at Series B from IVP, Sequoia, Benchmark, CapitalG, and Sapphire Ventures, we're at a stage where we're continuing to develop new products, growth is accelerating, and all team members have meaningful impact on what we build and how we work together.
  • LangChain is a place where your contributions can shape how this technology shows up in the real world.
  • Today, our platform includes LangSmith (Observability, Evaluation, Deployment, Fleet, and Sandboxes), our open source frameworks (LangChain, LangGraph, and Deep Agents), and the newly launched LangSmith Engine for autonomous agent improvement.
  • We have 100M+ monthly open source downloads, 6,000+ active LangSmith customers, and 5 of the Fortune 10 use LangSmith in production (+ 35% of the Fortune 500 overall), including teams at Klarna, Clay, Coinbase, Workday, Lyft, Cloudflare, Harvey, Rippling, Vanta, LinkedIn, Monday.com, Nvidia, and Bridgewater.
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