Vice President, People

At NetBox Labs, our mission is to make it easier to build and manage complex networks and infrastructure. We provide the leading network infrastructure management platform used by enterprises, data centers, and network practitioners worldwide. As we expand our platform and deliver more value to more customers, it is critical for us to scale our remote-first, high talent density, performance-driven workforce.

NetBox Labs is hiring a VP, People to lead and scale the People function as a core business accelerator. Reporting to the CFO, you will be responsible for talent quality, organizational effectiveness, total rewards strategy, learning and development, culture, and leadership capability. You will raise the bar for how we hire, evaluate, develop, reward, and structure our teams.

• Drive a high velocity, high leverage talent acquisition operation across multiple hiring channels and geographies

• Define and enforce a high hiring bar across the company

• Partner with Marketing to develop our employer brand

• Build and run performance management and calibration systems that drive velocity and accountability

• Foster a culture of ownership, strong communication, high velocity, and low politics

• Partner with leaders on org design and headcount planning aligned to business priorities

• Create career ladder and progression frameworks across engineering, product, go-to-market, and G&A functions

• Design and deliver leadership development programs for managers and senior leaders

• Build a scalable L&D framework that accelerates onboarding, AI adoption, skill development, and career growth

• Measure development effectiveness through engagement data, retention, productivity, and performance outcomes

• Own end-to-end compensation philosophy, leveling frameworks, pay structures, and communications to employees and managers

• Design and manage benefits strategy across all geographies (US, UK, Canada, Australia)

• Partner with Finance on headcount planning, compensation modeling, and bonus and equity administration

• Oversee and scale core systems (Justworks, Deel, Culture Amp, Ashby, Pave, HRIS)

• Leverage AI tools and automation to increase efficiency and impact while reducing friction for our team

• Build data-driven insights and people analytics to inform leadership decisions

• Own employee relations, policies, and compliance across all jurisdictions

• Ensure strong documentation and risk-aware decision-making

• Protect the company while maintaining fairness and credibility

• 10+ years in People / Talent roles, with 2+ years leadership experience at the Head or VP level in high-growth B2B SaaS and AI-native organizations

• Experience in scaling global, remote-first companies from 100 to 500+ employees and managing their growing pains

• Strong business and operator mindset—track record of connecting HR programs to team performance, velocity, retention, engagement, and business outcomes

• Deep expertise in performance management, total rewards, and L&D

• Comfort in making and advising on high-stakes talent decisions

• Excellent communicator to all levels and roles of an organization

• Ability to influence, build trust, and constructively challenge executives

• Data-driven approach to people strategy

• Creative, empathetic, and people-centered while being business-minded

• Comfortable operating with velocity despite ambiguity

• We own and solve problems with high attention to detail.

• Our open source contributors, users, customers & team are all part of our community. When our community wins, we win.

• We prioritize simplicity and think twice before adding complexity

• Clear communication helps keep our team aligned and collaborating smoothly.

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. We help customers accelerate network automation by delivering open, composable products and supporting the network automation community.

NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of open source NetBox, the world’s most popular network source of truth, and Orb, the next-generation open source network observability platform. Our products include NetBox Enterprise, a fully supported self-managed NetBox with advanced features, and NetBox Cloud, a secure, scalable, and reliable SaaS edition of NetBox.

NetBox powers thousands of companies, and NetBox Labs is backed by investment from Notable Capital (formerly GGV), Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital.