# Director of People

Hiring organization: [Launch Potato](https://career.thegoodapps.co/organizations/launch-potato)

Canonical page: https://career.thegoodapps.co/jobs/2c415aca-f297-4782-8d7b-f414be527bb5

Listed on Launch Potato's own careers site. Applications go to them directly.

- Seniority: Management
- Location: United States (remote)
- Remote: yes

## Summary

This director-level role owns the full people operations function at a 200-person profitable tech company, including performance management cycles, compensation strategy, HR compliance, and manager enablement. The seat suits someone with multiple cycles of hands-on ownership at scale who wants autonomy to evolve systems and measure themselves by whether the function actually improves.

_Our summary, not Launch Potato's wording._

## Skills named

HR Compliance, People Analytics

## Required

- Owned end-to-end performance cycles at 150+ people multiple times
- Designed and managed compensation bands and benchmarking
- Managed HR compliance across multiple states including I-9 and handbook
- Built and sustained a people system that remained in use after departure
- Delivered automation or process improvements with actual adoption by users
- Grown a company from current size to materially larger on headcount or revenue more than once
- Coached and developed teams to deliver extraordinary outcomes

## Nice to have

- Strong opinions on performance management shortcomings with specific examples of changes made
- Ability to diagnose process problems versus manager capability gaps
- Comfort with difficult conversations in calibration sessions

Apply on Launch Potato's site: https://launchpotato.com/careers-list?gh_jid=6220161004