HR Leader

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Key Responsibilities

Partner closely with founders and leadership teams on hiring, organisational design, performance, and talent decisions.

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Emergent builds autonomous coding agents that replace traditional software development by generating, testing, and deploying production applications directly from plain-language intent. Our systems run in production at global scale and are used to build millions of real applications.

Since public launch, Emergent has reached $100M ARR in 8 months. 6M+ users across 190+ countries have built 6.5M+ applications on Emergent. We've raised $100M+, backed by Khosla Ventures, SoftBank, Google, Lightspeed, Prosus, Together, and Y Combinator.

We're solving the hard part of AI-driven software creation: correctness, reliability, security, and scale in real production systems. The team is built by repeat founders, Olympiad medalists, and leaders from Google, Amazon, and Dropbox.

We're hiring builders who want ownership, speed, and impact at global scale.

The Role

We’re hiring a senior HR leader to work at the intersection of people, performance, and business outcomes. This is not a traditional HR role. It’s a company-building role.
At Emergent, we’re operating at exceptional speed: scaling globally, building category-defining products, and raising the bar on execution every week. At this stage, every decision we make about people, who we hire, how we enable them, how we reward them, and how we build teams, directly shapes the company we become.
You will work closely with founders and leaders to build an organisation where ambitious, high-agency people can do the best work of their lives. This role requires someone who deeply understands people and equally thinks from first principles with a business-first mindset.
You won’t just support the company. You’ll help shape it.

What You’ll Do:

Partner closely with founders and leadership teams on hiring, organisational design, performance, and talent decisions.
Build systems and processes that enable exceptional people to operate with clarity, ownership, and speed.
Drive a high-performance culture where incentives, rewards, and outcomes are meaningfully aligned.
Act as a strategic thought partner on people-related decisions across teams and functions.
Identify high-potential talent and create environments where they can thrive and scale rapidly.
Ensure teams remain focused on work that materially moves the business forward.
Lead and evolve performance management, feedback, compensation, and growth frameworks.
Build strong hiring principles and talent density across the organisation.
Navigate ambiguity and make clear, high-quality judgment calls on people and team dynamics.
Create scalable people systems without introducing unnecessary process or bureaucracy.
Work cross-functionally with leaders across hiring, operations, finance, and business teams.
Operate with urgency, discretion, and a high degree of ownership in a fast-moving environment.

Who You Are:

7+ years of experience across HR, People Operations, Talent, or organisational leadership roles in high-growth environments.
Strong business acumen and ability to think beyond traditional HR frameworks.
Deep understanding of people, motivation, performance, and team dynamics.
High-agency operator who is comfortable making decisions independently and driving outcomes.
Able to balance empathy with high standards and clear accountability.
Exceptional judgment and communication skills.
Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous, and constantly evolving environments.
Someone who cares deeply about building teams, culture, and organisational excellence.
Low ego, highly trusted, and capable of influencing across all levels of the company.

What This Role Is Not:

Not about maintaining legacy processes.
Not about optimising for comfort over performance.
Not about playing it safe or operating by convention.
Not a purely administrative or support-oriented HR role.

Nice to Have:

Experience building people functions in startup or hypergrowth environments.
Exposure to founder-led or product-driven organisations.
Experience designing compensation, performance, and talent systems from scratch.
Strong intuition for hiring exceptional talent across functions and seniority levels.