About Relay
Relay is a cross-chain payments network that delivers instant, low‑cost bridging, swaps, and transactions across 85+ chains. We’ve served 5M+ users with 59M+ transactions and $6B+ in volume. Our mission is to make moving value across chains as fast, cheap, and reliable as online payments; abstracting chain complexity so the next billion users never have to think about it.
The Role
We’re hiring a Head of People to build and lead a world‑class People function; equal parts strategic partner and hands‑on operator. You’ll shape our culture, design the org for speed and clarity, and put in place the lightweight systems that help senior, high‑ownership people do their best work in a global, remote‑first environment.
Why Relay?
Impact: Work as a true partner to leadership, deeply influencing org design, talent standards, and culture
Autonomy: Build a People function from the ground up with a high degree of trust and freedom
Leverage: We’re profitable and growing quickly, which means you’ll have the resources you need to do great work
Challenge: There’s never a dull moment as we navigate fast growth in a rapidly evolving industry
Upside: We’re post-PMF, but pre-scale. The perfect time to join.
What You’ll Own
People strategy aligned to company priorities: Act as a trusted partner to the CEO, COO, and functional leads
Org design and workforce planning: Clarify responsibilities, structure, and career pathways for a highly technical team
Performance & growth: Evolve a feedback-first culture and a pragmatic performance cadence (calibration, promotions, development) without heavy process
Manager & leadership enablement: Coach leaders, raise bar for manager effectiveness, and create simple toolkits that scale
Talent & recruiting partnership: Partner with leadership and external recruiters on headcount planning, brand positioning, and closing
Retention & compensation: Define a clear compensation philosophy, pay bands, benchmarking, and refresh rhythms; proactively monitor engagement and satisfaction
People Ops systems: Maintain and continuously improve payroll, benefits, leave, and HRIS in partnership with Finance; keep us compliant across jurisdictions
Policies & employee relations: Maintain handbook and policies; handle sensitive issues with judgment and discretion
Onboarding & offboarding: Own an end-to-end, high-signal experience that sets expectations and accelerates ramp up
Culture & rituals: Lead company-wide rituals and offsites (2–4×/year) that strengthen trust in a remote-first, async-friendly team
Cross-functional cohesion: Work closely with every function, and own large cross-functional projects like M&A diligence and integration
What Success Looks Like
Org is simple, fast, and aligned: teams have crisp interfaces and fewer bottlenecks
Compensation is kept up to date and trusted; attrition remains low
People are clear on expectations, growth paths, and how performance is assessed
Nothing slips through the cracks; we identify & solves challenges before they escalate
Hiring velocity improves without lowering the bar; our closing rate increases and we make less mistakes
People Ops runs smoothly; clean data, reliable systems, and no compliance surprises.
Our culture is explicit and felt: “safe hands,” high ownership, and healthy feedback loops
Our top talent is happy, and feels like they can do great work without friction
We develop a reputation as a great place to work, increasing the quality of inbound candidates
What You Bring
8–10+ years in People leadership with direct partnership to senior execs; experience supporting engineering/product orgs in high-growth environments
Track record building lightweight, scalable performance and growth systems
Demonstrated judgment in employee relations and sensitive matters
Experience architecting compensation philosophy and running cycles
Strong operator: you’ve owned onboarding, payroll/benefits, leave, and multi-jurisdiction compliance, ideally with modern tools (e.g., Rippling/Remote/Carta)
Excellent communication and coaching; comfortable in a distributed, fast-moving team
Comp & Benefits
$200,000+ base salary + equity
Remote-first with meaningful IRL time
Comprehensive health, dental, vision; home office setup allowance
Unlimited PTO with an encouraged minimum
Access to crypto education and industry events; work with a world-class technical team and partners across the ecosystem
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