Director of People Operations

🕒 September 15

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $204k - $240k / year

⏰ Full Time

🔴 Lead

👥 People Operations

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Chainguard

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2021

🔐 Security

☁️ SaaS

🔒 Cybersecurity

Security • SaaS • Cybersecurity

Chainguard is a company that specializes in building secure container images to enhance software security and compliance. Their products include low-to-zero CVE container images, which are updated daily to maintain security and compliance standards such as FedRAMP, NIST 800-53, PCI-DSS, SOC2, and CIS benchmarks. Chainguard focuses on reducing vulnerabilities, automating compliance, and supporting development workflows without compromising on innovation and productivity. The company serves a wide range of industries, including highly regulated sectors, by providing hardened image solutions to mitigate software supply chain risks and enhance application security.

📋 Description

• Own and scale core employee lifecycle processes, including onboarding, offboarding, compliance training, promotions, and job changes • Lead the People Operations team, currently one manager with two direct reports • Make HR Operations more visible and accessible to employees • Lead the operational work of opening new legal entities internationally, including the UK, Canada, Germany, and additional countries • Maintain HR operations and compliance across all countries where Chainguard operates • Partner with Finance and Legal on compliance, payroll, and legal requirements in new countries • Manage and expand the Employer of Record provider partnership for remote employees across approximately 19 countries • Build scalable People Operations processes, templates, and resources • Use AI to design more efficient People Operations processes and improve the employee experience

🎯 Requirements

• 8–10+ years in HR/People Operations, including 3+ years in a leadership/management capacity • Proven ownership of HRIS strategy, including an implementation, migration, or major optimization using Workday, Rippling, ADP, or similar • Experience owning the full employee lifecycle: onboarding, offboarding, organizational changes, data integrity, and process design • Background managing HR compliance operations, including I-9s, leave administration, policy administration, and audits • Experience standing up or scaling a People Operations function in a high-growth SaaS or startup environment • International experience required, particularly across EMEA • Direct experience opening new international entities and establishing HR compliance and operations in new countries • Experience partnering with or managing an Employer of Record (EOR) for international employees • Strong track record managing and developing a team • Comfort operating with ambiguity and building processes where they do not yet exist

🏖️ Benefits

• Flexible and remote-first culture • Team meetup opportunities • Bi-annual destination summits • Monthly stipend for coworking spaces, phone and internet costs • Stock options upon hire and promotion • Participation in secondary offerings • 10 years to exercise stock options • 100% covered health, vision, and dental insurance premiums for employee and dependents • Flexible time off • 18 weeks paid parental leave for birthing parents and 12 weeks for non-birthing parents • Equal opportunity employment