About Glean:
Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industrys most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem powering intelligent Search an AI Assistant and scalable AI agents on one secure open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors flexible LLM choice and robust APIs Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern scale and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.
At its core Glean is redefining how enterprises find use and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people content and activity delivering deeply personalized context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Gleans agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industrys broadest range of data: enterprise and world structured and unstructured historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding hours of productivity gained each week and smarter safer decisions at every level.
Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Top 10 2025) by CNBCs Disruptor 50 Bloombergs AI Startups to Watch (2026) Forbes AI 50 and Gartners Tech Innovators in Agentic AI Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50 industries and 1000 employees in more than 25 countries were helping the worlds largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
If youre excited to shape how the world works youll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams Zoom ServiceNow Zendesk GitHub and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. Youll ship agentic capabilities on an open extensible stack with the craft and care required for enterprise trust as we bring Work AI to every employee in every company.
About the Role:
Glean is looking for a strategic passionate and experienced Head of Human resources (Americas) to join our team. This role reporting into our VP of People will be responsible for leading our employee relations learning & development people operations and associated core HR functions for Gleans growing business across the U.S. Canada and LatAm.
The Head of HR Human Resources (Americas) will be a pivotal player in our companys growth responsible for leading People/HR related strategic and operational matters across the Americas region from our Headquarters in Palo Alto or San Francisco (4 days per week in office).
You will:
- Lead performance management total rewards compliance employee relations and engagement and professional development for all of Gleans operations across the United States Canada and LATAM.
- Build and manage a team of exceptional HRBPs and People Operations professionals.
- Drive the development and implementation of HR strategies policies and programs that support the organizations goals and foster a positive and inclusive work environment.
- Partner with senior leadership to drive organizational effectiveness and maintain a culture of high performance.
- Provide guidance and support to managers and employees on employee relations matters including conflict resolution performance improvement and disciplinary actions.
- Ensure compliance with employment laws and regulations.
- Benchmark and innovate processes that advance Gleans culture and ensure a conductive work environment for peak employee performance and productivity.
- Actively coach leaders to embody organizational values and foster accountability encouraging them to lead collaboratively across teams
- Exhibit exemplary leadership skills acting as a leader of leaders and fostering a culture of accountability transparency and high performance.
- Enable strong collaboration and communication between all employees regardless of physical location through the effective use of space and technologies.
About You:
- 10 years of hands-on experience in the human resources field
- 5 years of leadership experience in the human resources field
- Bachelors Degree in Human Resource Business or related field
- Proven experience leading a People/HR team or function with an established track record of delivering results.
- Ability to collaborate/influence C-suite as trusted advisor.
- Solid understanding of CA and US employment laws.
- The ability to be a strategic leader while remaining hands-on for the day to day implementation work.
- Deep and broad knowledge of People/HR processes such as workforce planning performance management talent reviews and change management.
- Demonstrated success in fast paced innovative technology organizations.
- Proven successful interpersonal skills coaching and listening skills and the ability to communicate within all levels of the organization.
- Excellent collaboration problem solving and organizational skills.
Compensation & Benefits
The standard base salary range for this position is $235000 - $265000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location level job-related knowledge skills and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation equity and benefits.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation Medical Vision and Dental coverage generous time-off policy and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join youll receive a home office improvement stipend as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. Were committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender ethnicity sexual orientation religion civil or family status age disability or race.
#LI-HYBRID
Required Experience:
Director
About Glean:Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industrys most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem powering intelligent Search an AI Assistant and scalable AI agents on one secure open platform. With over 10...
About Glean:
Glean is the Work AI platform that helps everyone work smarter with AI. What began as the industrys most advanced enterprise search has evolved into a full-scale Work AI ecosystem powering intelligent Search an AI Assistant and scalable AI agents on one secure open platform. With over 100 enterprise SaaS connectors flexible LLM choice and robust APIs Glean gives organizations the infrastructure to govern scale and customize AI across their entire business - without vendor lock-in or costly implementation cycles.
At its core Glean is redefining how enterprises find use and act on knowledge. Its Enterprise Graph and Personal Knowledge Graph map the relationships between people content and activity delivering deeply personalized context-aware responses for every employee. This foundation powers Gleans agentic capabilities - AI agents that automate real work across teams by accessing the industrys broadest range of data: enterprise and world structured and unstructured historical and real-time. The result: measurable business impact through faster onboarding hours of productivity gained each week and smarter safer decisions at every level.
Recognized by Fast Company as one of the Worlds Most Innovative Companies (Top 10 2025) by CNBCs Disruptor 50 Bloombergs AI Startups to Watch (2026) Forbes AI 50 and Gartners Tech Innovators in Agentic AI Glean continues to accelerate its global impact. With customers across 50 industries and 1000 employees in more than 25 countries were helping the worlds largest organizations make every employee AI-fluent and turning the superintelligent enterprise from concept into reality.
If youre excited to shape how the world works youll help build systems used daily across Microsoft Teams Zoom ServiceNow Zendesk GitHub and many more - deeply embedded where people get things done. Youll ship agentic capabilities on an open extensible stack with the craft and care required for enterprise trust as we bring Work AI to every employee in every company.
About the Role:
Glean is looking for a strategic passionate and experienced Head of Human resources (Americas) to join our team. This role reporting into our VP of People will be responsible for leading our employee relations learning & development people operations and associated core HR functions for Gleans growing business across the U.S. Canada and LatAm.
The Head of HR Human Resources (Americas) will be a pivotal player in our companys growth responsible for leading People/HR related strategic and operational matters across the Americas region from our Headquarters in Palo Alto or San Francisco (4 days per week in office).
You will:
- Lead performance management total rewards compliance employee relations and engagement and professional development for all of Gleans operations across the United States Canada and LATAM.
- Build and manage a team of exceptional HRBPs and People Operations professionals.
- Drive the development and implementation of HR strategies policies and programs that support the organizations goals and foster a positive and inclusive work environment.
- Partner with senior leadership to drive organizational effectiveness and maintain a culture of high performance.
- Provide guidance and support to managers and employees on employee relations matters including conflict resolution performance improvement and disciplinary actions.
- Ensure compliance with employment laws and regulations.
- Benchmark and innovate processes that advance Gleans culture and ensure a conductive work environment for peak employee performance and productivity.
- Actively coach leaders to embody organizational values and foster accountability encouraging them to lead collaboratively across teams
- Exhibit exemplary leadership skills acting as a leader of leaders and fostering a culture of accountability transparency and high performance.
- Enable strong collaboration and communication between all employees regardless of physical location through the effective use of space and technologies.
About You:
- 10 years of hands-on experience in the human resources field
- 5 years of leadership experience in the human resources field
- Bachelors Degree in Human Resource Business or related field
- Proven experience leading a People/HR team or function with an established track record of delivering results.
- Ability to collaborate/influence C-suite as trusted advisor.
- Solid understanding of CA and US employment laws.
- The ability to be a strategic leader while remaining hands-on for the day to day implementation work.
- Deep and broad knowledge of People/HR processes such as workforce planning performance management talent reviews and change management.
- Demonstrated success in fast paced innovative technology organizations.
- Proven successful interpersonal skills coaching and listening skills and the ability to communicate within all levels of the organization.
- Excellent collaboration problem solving and organizational skills.
Compensation & Benefits
The standard base salary range for this position is $235000 - $265000 annually. Compensation offered will be determined by factors such as location level job-related knowledge skills and experience. Certain roles may be eligible for variable compensation equity and benefits.
We offer a comprehensive benefits package including competitive compensation Medical Vision and Dental coverage generous time-off policy and the opportunity to contribute to your 401k plan to support your long-term goals. When you join youll receive a home office improvement stipend as well as an annual education and wellness stipends to support your growth and wellbeing. We foster a vibrant company culture through regular events and provide healthy lunches daily to keep you fueled and focused.
We are a diverse bunch of people and we want to continue to attract and retain a diverse range of people into our organization. Were committed to an inclusive and diverse company. We do not discriminate based on gender ethnicity sexual orientation religion civil or family status age disability or race.
#LI-HYBRID
Required Experience:
Director
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