Head of People

Join Mintlify as the Head of People, where you'll lead the People function, ensure compliance across all jurisdictions, own compensation philosophy and performance strategy, and provide leadership with a continuous read on people health. You'll partner with the founders and executive team on workforce planning, org design, and people strategy, while also improving our listening infrastructure and owning retention and engagement. This role requires 8-10+ years of progressive People/HR experience, with a deep understanding of compensation, performance cycles, and multi-state and international employment.

• Lead the People function, ensuring compliance in all jurisdictions, and own the compensation philosophy and performance strategy.
• Partner with the founders and executive team on workforce planning, organizational design, and people strategy.
• Use people data and insights to inform decisions, continuously improve programs, and enhance employee retention and engagement.
• 8–10+ years of progressive People/HR experience, with 3+ years in a leadership role
• Experience supporting a fast-growing
• Deep compensation fluency: benchmarking, bands, and equity refresh strategy
• You've lived the 50→150+ scaling transition and know what breaks at each inflection point
• You've run a full performance cycle end-to-end, including design, calibration, manager coaching, comp changes
• A track record of interventions that surfaced people risk early and measurably reduced attrition
• Exceptional discretion and judgment in sensitive situations
• Experience running structured listening programs and making the signal actionable for leadership
• Multi-state and international employment fluency
• You've coached first-time and mid-level managers with measurable improvement
• Executive-level candor: comfortable delivering hard feedback to founders without being asked
• Familiarity with our stack: Rippling, Ashby, Deel
• You've built or led a People team → we want a builder in this seat