Talent & People Operations Manager

About the position Promptfoo is the leading AI security testing platform, helping 250,000+ developers build secure, reliable AI applications. Backed by Insight Partners and Andreessen Horowitz, we help the world’s largest enterprises adapt AI-specific pentesting techniques to your application, providing automated red teaming, vulnerability scanning, and continuous monitoring for LLM-based systems. You will own our talent engine and core people operations as we scale from 17 to 50+ employees over the next 12 months. You'll run end-to-end recruiting, sourcing, closing, and coordinating external recruiters, build the essential people infrastructure (onboarding, comp, performance) that keeps a fast-growing team aligned and effective, and help shape culture deliberately as we grow. Responsibilities • Recruiting and hiring Own end-to-end recruiting: process, pipeline, scheduling, scorecards, interview kits, SLAs, weekly funnel reviews • Manage and coordinate external recruiters: negotiate agreements, run weekly syncs • Track metrics: pass-through rates, time-to-hire, offer acceptance, quality-of-hire, cost-per-hire, first-90-day ramp, regretted attrition • People ops and compliance Maintain HR compliance • Run hybrid onboarding with run-books for in-office and remote hires. Build 30/60/90 templates • Manage PEO relationship, handbook, and benefits • Coordinate team events, manage travel logistics, handle miscellaneous people ops • Comp, leveling, and performance Build leveling framework and pay bands • Document promotion criteria and refresh/equity policy • Implement light quarterly reviews/formal annual reviews, ongoing feedback loops, and manager toolkits • Partner with Finance on headcount planning • Culture and coordination Design rituals that reinforce company values and make hybrid work effective • Run engagement pulses Host candidate onsites and coordinate team offsites Requirements • 5-7+ years in People Ops and recruiting, with at least one early-stage tour (Series A-C) • Proven track record building recruiting engines, including sourcing candidates / recruiters, structuring interviewing processes, and closing candidates, and raising hiring quality at startups • Experience managing external recruiting agencies • California compliance literacy: harassment training, pay-range transparency, wage-hour basics, CPRA requirements • Comp and equity fluency with Carta, Pave, or similar benchmark tools; experience with HRIS platforms like Rippling and ATS systems like Ashby • Full-cycle recruiting experience: sourcing, closing candidates, structured interviews • Strong operations skills: ability to manage multiple moving pieces and prevent things from falling through cracks • Clear, concise communicator, data-driven, and high agency Nice-to-haves • experience with hybrid teams • technical recruiting for engineering roles Apply tot his job