AfterQuery
People Programs Lead
San Francisco · Contract
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 67 days ago
ValuationPerformance ManagementCompensationCadenceResearchLeadership
About the role
- This is our first dedicated People Programs hire, reporting to the Head of Business Operations & People.
- Career ladders that worked five years ago do not.
- We need someone who has the analytical horsepower to redesign these systems from first principles, the taste to know what "excellent" looks like, and the operating instincts to roll programs out with efficiency, not bureaucracy.
Responsibilities
- Build the career pathways and leveling rubric that operators see, in writing, what excellence at the next level looks like and how to get there.
- Own retention as a measurable outcome: define the leading indicators, build the sensing systems, and run programs that move the metric.
- Partner with leadership and finance on org design, headcount planning, and comp/burn tradeoffs that shape the next phase of our growth.
- Demonstrated ability to design programs from 0→ 1.
- You've been on the org-design side of an AI pivot or step-change in business model.
- You've designed compensation programs for a workforce that includes both full-time employees and a diverse contractor population.
- A real seat at the strategy table - comp, leveling, and org design will shape product velocity and burn, and you'll own that.
Requirements
- 7-10+ years of experience across a combination of top-tier strategy consulting, analytical or strategy & operations roles, and core People / HR programs work.
- You have seen what excellent looks like and have built (not just managed) at least one program end-to-end.
- You can debate with founders about decisions, and bring the data and the company's values to back it up.
Compensation
- Design AfterQuery's total compensation strategy - philosophy, bands, leveling, refresh cadence, and equity framework - and refresh it annually against benchmarks and market signals.
Benefits
- Bonus points if you have done this through a strategy
- You'll build the People function for a fast growing company in the AI training-data category.
- Design learning & development programs for a high-agency, early-career workforce - onboarding, manager training, technical depth, and feedback culture.
- Quantitative rigor that goes beyond comp benchmarks: you can model leveling decisions, attrition, comp band overlap, and equity refresh tradeoffs, and you reach for the spreadsheet before the slide.
Equal opportunity
- AfterQuery is an equal opportunity employer.
- We hire on merit and evaluate everyone against the same bar.
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