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Director of People

Launch Potato

United States (remote) · Remote · Management

Listed on Launch Potato’s own careers site. You apply with them directly — we never stand between you and the employer.

What this role is

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. The full posting is on their site.

Skills this role names

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What they ask for

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

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