About Nectir

Nectir is the secure AI infrastructure purpose-built for schools. Nectir AI provides 24/7 personalized learning support grounded in course content, without compromising trust, outcomes, or academic integrity. Nectir AI can be integrated into existing Learning Management Systems and is fully FERPA- and SOC 2-compliant. Trusted by 80,000 students across 100+ campuses, Nectir is backed by independent, peer-reviewed research demonstrating a 7.5% campuswide GPA increase. Nectir has raised $18.5M from leading investors including Rethink Impact, Long Journey Ventures, and Entrada Ventures.

About the Role

Our People function is being built from the ground up, and it sits at the center of everything we're scaling: the teams we hire, the culture we cultivate, and the systems that let great people do their best work.

We're looking for a Head of People to own this function end-to-end as a founding hire. You'll design the hiring engine, build the culture infrastructure, and create the operational backbone that lets Nectir attract and retain exceptional talent at each stage of growth.

You'll work cross-functionally across every team at the company, from Engineering and Product to Sales and Customer Success, touching every hire, every performance cycle, and every culture initiative we run.

What You’ll Do

Talent Acquisition and Recruiting Operations

• Build and operationalize the company's end-to-end recruiting function, including ATS selection and implementation, structured interview process design, and role-specific scorecards
• Lead full-cycle recruiting for early and senior hires, with an emphasis on high-signal evaluation, strong candidate experience, and competency-based assessment
• Train interviewers and establish scalable hiring workflows that maintain rigor and speed as headcount grows

Strategic Workforce Planning

• Partner with leadership on org design, headcount prioritization, and workforce planning to ensure hiring decisions align with business goals and growth stage
• Translate business strategy into people plans, bringing clarity on when, where, and how to hire, as well as when not to

Performance Management and Career Development

• Design, launch, and manage structured performance management systems, including review cycles, calibration processes, and feedback frameworks that drive accountability and growth
• Build career development frameworks and provide direct support to managers on coaching, feedback delivery, and people decisions

Compensation and Benefits

• Own compensation strategy end-to-end: market benchmarking, leveling frameworks, offer structuring, and equity philosophy
• Evaluate and manage benefits programs to ensure they are competitive, cost-effective, and aligned with our culture and values

People Operations and Culture

• Build foundational People Ops processes and policies that are compliant, clear, and appropriately lightweight for an early-stage environment
• Serve as a trusted advisor to leadership and employees on organizational effectiveness, communication, team dynamics, and employee experience
•  Manage internal employee communications and coordinate companywide offsites

What We're Looking For

Must-Haves

• Proven ability to build People programs from scratch, not just maintain or inherit them, developed over seven or more years of progressive HR/People experience in early-stage or high-growth startups
• Hands-on full-cycle recruiting experience for technical and senior roles, from sourcing through close, with strong instincts for high-signal evaluation
• Demonstrated ability to influence leadership using data, frameworks, and sound judgment, not just HR process
• Fluency in compensation strategy and benchmarking tools such as Radford, Levels, or Pave, including leveling and offer construction
• High EQ and genuine care for people and culture, with excellent interpersonal instincts across all levels of an organization
• Comfort operating with limited resources, in ambiguity, and across competing priorities without losing rigor or speed

Nice to Haves

• Experience in a technical product or engineering-led organization
• Familiarity with modern ATS and HRIS tooling
• Prior experience as a sole People practitioner or first People hire at a startup
• Exposure to edtech, higher education, or mission-driven organizations

Working at Nectir

We're a startup, which means the work moves fast, but the impact is real. You will not be a small cog in a big machine here, but the one building the machine itself.

This is a foundational hire at a critical stage of our growth. Our culture is being defined right now, and the person in this role will have an outsized hand in shaping it. This is a full-time, remote position open to candidates working within US time zones.

What We Offer

• Competitive base salary
• Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision (for US-based roles only)
• 401k with employer match (for US-based roles only)
• Equity (stock options), so you share in what we're building
• Flexible, remote-first work environment

The estimated annual salary range for this role is $130,000 to $160,000 (Remote)