Senior Director, People

The Role

You'll design the people systems and processes our company scales and thrives on: how we level and pay, how we onboard, how we grow and promote, and how we manage performance. The raw material is strong — a high-talent team, support for modern tooling, and leaders who care about performance as much as you do. You default to AI-forward thinking — using modern tools to make People processes faster, sharper, and more scalable, not just to keep up with them.

This is a builder's seat, not a maintenance role. You'll report directly to our CEO, with the mandate and autonomy to shape how Doxel hires, develops, and retains talent as we scale — and the trust to build it right the first time.

Construction is the second-largest industry in the world—nearly 4x the size of SaaS—yet it still operates without the automated feedback loops that modern software teams rely on. Without real-time observability, issues are detected too late, contributing to over $3 Trillion in annual global waste. Doxel brings computer vision and AI to construction, giving teams real-time visibility into progress, risk, and execution. From hospitals to data centers, and from field leaders to executive teams, Doxel is used every day to support better decisions and faster delivery. Our platform is trusted by industry leaders including Shell, Genentech, HCA Healthcare, Kaiser, Turner, and Layton. Doxel’s automated progress tracking solution keeps teams aligned with hard facts that leave no ambiguity on where the project is today, where it will be tomorrow and what decisions need to be made to land it on schedule and on budget. This enables our customers to deliver projects, on average, 11% ahead of schedule with up to 16% savings on monthly cash flow. Backed by Insight Partners and Andreessen Horowitz and with a rapidly growing team of engineers, scientists, construction veterans, and Enterprise go-to-market teams, we're driven to help our customers win.  Join us as we continue our journey to transform the $15T Construction Industry! Doxel is an equal opportunity employer and actively seeks diversity at our company. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

Your Day To Day

Talent engine. Recruiting execution has dedicated owners — you make the machine around them world-class: hiring velocity, interview quality, decision discipline, and a candidate experience that closes the people we want most.

Performance Management, Career Pathing & Manager Development. Partner with Finance on leveling architecture and benchmarking (Pave/Carta); design offer strategy. Own and evolve our career pathing framework so growth criteria at every level are clear and defensible. Run merit and promotion cycles end to end, including calibration. Directly coach and develop our people managers — especially first-time managers — through performance conversations, calibration, and promotion decisions.

People platform (HRIS). Rippling is our HRIS and you own it: job architecture, approval workflows, onboarding that impresses on day one, offboarding that's airtight.

Employee Relations. Be the first line on ER issues handling them with rigor in accordance with company policies, while coaching managers through difficult situations before they escalate.

Benefits, total rewards & employee support. Own benefits strategy and annual renewals with our broker, 401(k) administration, and payroll operations across [confirm: two countries, or more — flagging the discrepancy with the "11+ countries" line elsewhere]. Make our rewards competitive, understood, and efficient. Support immigration needs (H-1B and related, with dedicated outside counsel), mobility.

Learning & Development. We have a track record of growing up-and-coming managers into senior leaders. You will own and grow the learning & development program to scale this success.

We hire and promote on one criterion: the best person for every job. We expect our People leader to build systems that are rigorously fair and rigorously excellent, and to keep the function anchored to mission and merit.

What Success Looks Like

What You Bring

10+ years of blended Recruiting and HR experience

At least 2+ years within an Enterprise SaaS environment

Experience at a growth-stage company (roughly 50–300 headcount during tenure)

Comfortable evaluating and integrating AI-powered tools into People workflows (e.g., interview intelligence, performance calibration support, L&D content creation) — not just using AI, but knowing where it genuinely improves rigor vs. where it doesn't

Talent Engine: Experience building or significantly improving hiring infrastructure, with measurable and effective KPIs (time-to-fill, offer-accept rate, interviewer scorecard consistency, etc.)

Performance Management, Career Pathing & Manager Development:

Has run performance review/merit/promotion or calibration cycles directly, not just supported them

Has built or owned a career pathing framework — clear criteria for what growth looks like at each level, not just comp bands tied to titles

Has direct experience developing first-time or early-stage people managers — coaching them through their first performance conversations, calibration debates, or promotion decisions, not just training them once and moving on

Comfortable coaching managers through difficult performance conversations in real time

HRIS ownership: Hands-on experience owning an HRIS (Rippling or comparable) — configuring job architecture, approval workflows, onboarding/offboarding flows — not just using one as an end user

Employee Relations: Demonstrated experience handling ER issues directly — investigations, terminations, conflict escalation, manager coaching

Preferred Experience