VP of People

GC AI is the legal AI platform built for in-house legal teams. Your decisions shape the product your impact is immediate and you own your work from day one.

More than 2000 companies run their legal work on GC AI including 200 public companies 25 unicorns and teams at News Corp Nestlé Miro Bass Pro Shops Snyk Skims Liquid Death Vercel Zscaler and TIME. The platform holds an 80 NPS more than double the B2B SaaS industry average which is why GC AI is the leading legal AI platform for companies of all sizes.

GC AI doubled ARR in six months. We raised a $60 million Series B at a $555 million valuation in November 2025 and won #1 Highest Customer Satisfaction at the 2026 SaaS Awards. Our investors include Scale Venture Partners Northzone Sound Ventures and Guillermo Rauch CEO of Vercel.

Youll define how things get built not follow someone elses playbook. Six principles guide how the team works:

• 1% Better Every Day: small compounding improvements across everything you ship.

• Customer Obsession: start with the customer and work backward.

• Ship Today: bias toward action and iteration over perfection.

• Find a Way: resourcefulness and ambition over constraint.

• Care: be direct like an honest friend even when its uncomfortable.

• Own It: full accountability proactive communication and attention to detail.

As our VP of People you will lead GC AIs People function end-to-end through a period of rapid sustained scaling. Youll report to our COO and partner directly with our CEO Executive Leadership Team and senior leadership to build the infrastructure organizational practices and leadership capabilities GC AI needs for its next phase of growth.

This is a builders role. Youre joining at an inflection point: GC AI has scaled quickly and we are building many of the People systems programs and operating rhythms needed to support our growth. Youll inherit strong People and Talent teams and own both functions setting the strategy operating model and priorities for how GC AI attracts hires develops and retains exceptional talent. Youll also have a leadership team that wants to invest with significant opportunity to determine what needs to exist establish the roadmap and build it.

Youll need to be equally comfortable advising executives on challenging organizational decisions coaching a manager through a performance issue designing a compensation framework and getting into the details of an HRIS implementation. Youll build the team around you but will also be in a hands-on leadership role.

• Quickly assess our current People landscape: team systems policies compliance manager practices organizational risks - and build a clear sequenced roadmap for what GC AI needs now versus later.

• Own the People function end-to-end including HR operations talent benefits and total rewards compliance employee relations and talent acquisition.

• Hire build and manage the People team as we scale.

• Partner with our CEO COO Executive Leadership and cross-functional partners in Finance Legal and functional leaders on organizational design and workforce planning including headcount team structure role clarity and evolving leadership needs.

• Coach executives and managers through organizational performance and people challenges while building practical programs that make great management more consistent across the company.

• Own the Talent function connecting workforce planning hiring leveling and compensation to create clear guidance and consistent practices for recruiters and hiring managers.

• Own benefits and total rewards including open enrollment PEO and international benefits administration compensation philosophy job architecture leveling and compensation frameworks.

• Drive performance management calibration feedback and promotions connecting performance leveling development and compensation decisions.

• Lead employee relations including performance and conduct issues leaves accommodations investigations and exits partnering closely with Legal on compliance and risk.

• Build the foundational programs that help our culture and employee experience scale including onboarding manager enablement and the systems and operating rhythms employees need to succeed.

• Build scalable infrastructure across immigration and mobility People reporting and analytics employee self-service and HR technology including evaluating and leading an HRIS migration.

• Identify and implement practical applications of AI and LLMs across People operations employee self-service manager enablement analytics and internal workflows.

• Own the strategy for HRIS and HR operations ensuring systems and processes scale with the business.

• 12 years of People/HR experience including leading or building a People function at a high-growth technology company - ideally scaling a People function through a similar stage of growth from 50300 employees.

• Proven ability to build foundational People programs and infrastructure from the ground up not just operate established systems.

• Strong experience across compensation and leveling benefits performance management employee relations and employment compliance.

• Experience partnering with executives on organizational design workforce planning and complex people decisions.

• Experience building and managing a People team with a willingness to stay hands-on while the function is lean.

• Strong judgment and communication skills with the ability to coach leaders and navigate sensitive employee situations.

• A genuine passion for AI - you already use it experiment with it and see opportunities to apply it across the People function.

• Experience supporting distributed or international teams.

• Experience in an AI-native company or a company selling into legal and legal adjacent personas.

Were building something new in a once-in-a-generation shift in technology and the legal industry so we move at a relentless pace. We expect urgency ownership and good judgment even when things arent perfectly clear. If you need structure and consensus to do your best work this isnt the right place for you. If you thrive in ambiguity and growth work with intensity and want real responsibility keep reading. Were excited to meet you.

GC AI is a distributed company with team members across North America and soon Europe. We believe that because our business is AI human connection matters more not less. We invest in bringing people together through our hub model: regular coworking sessions customer dinners team and company offsites. If youre in a location without an office expect up to 10% travel (and more for customer-facing roles).

Team members in the San Francisco Bay Area and Provo UT (within 50 miles of the office) work together on Tuesdays Wednesdays and Thursdays. As we grow we plan to establish permanent offices in more hub cities and we will look to our team members to help build that in-person culture. We currently hire across the United States and Canada.

We proudly offer the following benefits for our full-time employees:

Medical Dental & Vision Comprehensive coverage for you and your family
Life & Disability Insurance Added protection when you need it most
Retirement Plan Plan and save for your future
Parental Leave Time to focus on what matters most
Continuous Development Up to $3000/year for job-related learning & development
In-Office Meals DoorDash credits for breakfast lunch & dinner
Paid Time Off 15 PTO days 5 sick days with opportunities to accrue more
Company Holidays 15 company holidays 3 additional Me Days
Home Office Setup $500 for new hires to build out their workspace
Cell Phone Reimbursement $50/month toward your phone bill
Relocation Support Assistance to help make your move easier

GC AI is an equal opportunity employer that supports workplace diversity and does not discriminate on the basis of race color religion gender identity/expression national origin age military service eligibility veteran status sexual orientation marital status physical or mental disability or any other protected class. GC AI is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodation to applicants with physical and mental disabilities. #LI-GCAI

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Required Experience:

Exec