Head of People & Performance

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senior

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Sunrise The Head of People & Performance at Sunrise Robotics leads the design and execution of company-wide performance cycles and manages the entire employee experience. This role owns hiring systems, compensation structures, and people operations across multiple European countries.

Responsibilities

We are hiring our first Head of People & Performance.
You report to the CEO and sit on the leadership team. You own how we hire, how we set the bar, how we review performance, pay and promote, and how we part ways. You also own the platform underneath: contracts, onboarding, HRIS and compliance across more than 10 European countries.
We have doubled the team in the last 9 months to 50 people today and expect to continue growing the team on a similar trajectory. The job is to build the people system that scales with that.
This is primarily a builder's role. Build lean - sharp systems, a small set of trusted partners, and automation for the transactional work. Grow the People team only when necessary.
We are outcome-driven, direct, high trust and high autonomy organization. There is very little hand-holding. We enjoy working with people that bring a healthy degree of intensity and drive.
Design one performance cycle for the whole company and run the first one. Every leader should be able to tell you and the CEO who is above the bar, who is on it, and who is below, and act on it within days.
Own the employee experience
Build what it is like to work at Sunrise from the first day to last.
Own compensation and levels
Build comp bands for today's roles, not a framework for roles we don't have yet. Hang them off a light leveling structure. Standardize pay awards and equity top-ups, so every hiring manager can make a defensible offer inside the system.
Manage our internal recruiting, embedded recruiting partners, and the hiring managers' process. Standardize scorecards and interview packs. A role does not open without one. You are not the recruiter, but you own the system the recruiters run in.
Own people operations end-to-end

Qualification

SomewhereYou are a systems thinkerYou are not afraid of numbersComp bandsYou hold confidencesWe care about talent densityYou know Deel

Required

Somewhere, a fast-growing company runs on a people system you built. You may have been the first people hired at a Series A that grew past 100, the number two in a people function at a larger scale-up, or an operator who did it from a consulting, operations, or venture seat without the title. We care about the work, not the title.
You are a systems thinker
You see how changing one thing here moves another thing there, and you design for it. You have built systems that survived scale while keeping the operation flexible.
You are not afraid of numbers
Comp bands, equity, headcount plans. You are at home in a spreadsheet, and you never mistake the spreadsheet for the person.
Employment complexity in more than 10 jurisdictions is a problem you know how to work with, not one you outsource entirely.
You are detail-oriented and write everything down
You are bothered when small details don’t match. You are a great writer who values concise, legible, high-signal documents.
You hold confidences
Join an early stage team to work directly with the CEO, leadership, and founders in a high impact role.
We care about talent density, speed of execution, and long-term technology leverage.
Get things done and shape your own trajectory.