Director of Talent & People

Who We Are

Advantage HQ is a tech-enabled growth firm helping leading brands scale profitably and predictably. We combine full-service performance marketing with proprietary technology, including:

• A creator marketplace managing over 80,000 influencer partnerships monthly
• An AI-powered platform to streamline discovery, outreach, and whitelisting
• Proven playbooks across influencer marketing, paid media, performance creative, and conversion optimization

We partner with over 200 high-growth DTC brands across beauty, wellness, lifestyle, and health. Our team of 185+ operators, analysts, strategists, and creatives manages over $500M in annual media spend and drives meaningful bottom-line impact for our partners.

As we continue to scale, we are looking for a leader to build the people infrastructure that allows great teams to do their best work.

The Role

We are looking for a Director of Talent & People to lead and evolve the entire people function at Advantage HQ.

This role combines talent acquisition leadership with people operations ownership. You will inherit an existing recruiting team and be responsible for ensuring the company can continue to attract, hire, onboard, develop, and retain exceptional talent as we scale globally.

You understand that high-performing organizations are built intentionally. Recruiting is not simply filling roles. People operations is not simply answering HR questions. The goal is to create systems that allow great people to do great work with minimal friction.

You will be the primary owner of hiring strategy, recruiting operations, employee experience, onboarding, organizational design support, and people processes across a distributed global team.

This role reports directly to the CEO and will be the single point of accountability for all Talent and People initiatives across the business.

What You Will Own

Talent Acquisition Leadership

• Own company-wide hiring strategy and workforce planning.
• Lead and develop our internal recruiting team.
• Improve hiring quality, speed, and predictability.
• Personally lead executive and leadership hiring across critical roles.
• Improve interview processes, hiring scorecards, and candidate experience.
• Build recruiting systems capable of supporting aggressive growth targets.

People Operations

• Own onboarding, offboarding, documentation, and internal policies.
• Build scalable people systems for a globally distributed workforce.
• Serve as the escalation point for employee questions and issues.
• Improve employee experience across the entire employee lifecycle.
• Ensure organizational clarity around roles, reporting lines, and accountability.

Organizational Development

• Partner with leadership on organizational design decisions.
• Support department leaders with hiring plans and team structures.
• Help improve communication, accountability, and operational clarity.
• Identify people risks before they become operational problems.

Performance and Retention

• Build and improve performance management systems.
• Support managers in developing high-performing teams.
• Improve retention of top performers.
• Create systems for feedback, reviews, promotions, and development.
• Build visibility into organizational health and people metrics.

Leadership Partnership

• Act as a strategic partner to leadership on all people-related decisions.
• Bring solutions rather than problems.
• Help create the infrastructure required to support the next stage of growth.

What We Are Looking For

• 5-10+ years of experience across Talent Acquisition, People Operations, or Human Resources leadership roles.
• Experience supporting organizations with 100+ employees.
• Experience leading recruiting teams and managing hiring operations.
• Strong understanding of people operations in remote or distributed organizations.
• Experience operating in startups, agencies, or high-growth businesses.
• Excellent judgment and strong decision-making ability.
• Bias toward action and ownership.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Comfortable operating in fast-moving environments with ambiguity and constant change.

Ideal Experience

• Experience scaling organizations from approximately 100 to 300+ employees.
• Experience supporting remote teams across multiple countries and time zones.
• Experience building recruiting systems and processes.
• Experience implementing onboarding, performance management, and employee development frameworks.
• Experience partnering directly with founders and senior leadership teams.

This Role Is Probably Not For You If

• You prefer highly structured corporate environments.
• You are uncomfortable making decisions with incomplete information.
• You view HR primarily as administration and policy enforcement.
• You prefer maintaining systems rather than building them.
• You require extensive support structures to operate effectively.

Success In This Role Looks Like

Within your first 30 days:

• Recruiting operations continue without disruption.
• Employees know exactly where to go for support.
• Leadership has visibility into hiring pipelines and people metrics.
• Immediate people-related bottlenecks are removed.
• Recruiting and people operations have clear ownership and accountability.

Within your first 90 days:

• Hiring quality improves.
• Time to hire decreases.
• Employee retention improves.
• Leaders spend less time solving people-related operational issues.
• The company has the people infrastructure required to support the next stage of growth.

Compensation & Location

• $40,000 - $90,000 USD total annual compensation, including base salary, performance bonus, and equity.
• Fully remote. We have built the infrastructure for high-performance distributed teams and trust our people to do their best work from wherever they work best.
• We care far more about ownership, judgment, and execution than geography.

If you enjoy building teams, creating systems, and helping organizations scale through people, we'd love to speak with you.