Head of People Recruitment

Head Of People
Goodfire is a research company using interpretability to understand, learn from, and design AI systems. Our mission is to build the next generation of safe and powerful AI—not by scaling alone, but by understanding the intelligence we're building. Every engineering discipline has been gated by fundamental science and AI is at that inflection point now.
We're advancing the science of how AI systems actually work. Treating models as black boxes is an unnecessary handicap—we have access to the structures inside them, and understanding those structures lets us steer what models learn, make them safer and more useful, and extract the vast knowledge they contain. Our goal is to make AI that can be understood, debugged, and shaped like software.
Goodfire is a public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco with a team of the world's top interpretability researchers and engineers from organizations like OpenAI and DeepMind. We're backed by over $200M from B Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, Eric Schmidt, and others.
We're hiring a Head of People to help scale the highest-performing AI research organization in the world so that we can achieve our mission. You'll lead the strategy behind how we hire, develop, and retain exceptional talent while building the systems, processes, and culture that help us tackle the biggest and most ambitious problems.
We're scaling fast, and we're looking for someone who refuses to lower the hiring bar just to fill headcount objectives when the pressure is on. Own Goodfire's hiring strategy and execution across all functions
Own compensation, leveling, and equity philosophy to ensure we attract and retain world-class talent
Own the end-to-end employee experience, from offer through onboarding, development, performance, and offboarding
Shape and reinforce a high-performance, mission-driven culture as the company scales while preserving trust, intensity, and high standards
Lead employee relations and navigate sensitive, high-stakes people situations with sound judgment, discretion, and empathy
Hire, develop, and lead a high-performing People team
8+ years in People/Talent roles, including experience building or scaling a People function at a high-growth startup

• Track record of hiring for technical/research roles under intense pressure without compromising quality
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and building processes from scratch
• We are building a team first and foremost.

We trust each other, deeply care about the success of the organization, and choose to put our team above ourselves.
We are self-driven, own our mistakes, and feel deep responsibility over what we're building.
We are hiring for this position in our San Francisco office who'd be onsite 5 days a week.
This role offers market competitive salary, equity, and competitive benefits.