Head of People Operations

LangChain
San Francisco, New York
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: People, HR & TalentExperience: 8+ yearsSkills: ["Leadership","Ownership","Process design","Stakeholder management","Data-driven decision making"]

Lead and scale LangChain’s People Ops by building end-to-end HR systems, compliance, and automation. Own HRIS, benefits, leave programs, and global employment, while shaping policies and governance. Build a small team, partner with counsel, and drive AI-enabled processes across geographies.

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LangChain
LangChain
3 months ago

Head of People Operations

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Job Summary

Lead and scale LangChain’s People Ops by building end-to-end HR systems, compliance, and automation. Own HRIS, benefits, leave programs, and global employment, while shaping policies and governance. Build a small team, partner with counsel, and drive AI-enabled processes across geographies.
Location: San Francisco, New York
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: People, HR & Talent
Seniority: Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own the People Ops end-to-end, acting as the accountable operator for HRIS integrity, benefits administration, leave and accommodations management, compliance, and onboarding/offboarding programs.
  • •Build and maintain LangChain’s compliance layer, including US multi-state requirements, global employment law, contractor vs. FTE classification, immigration case coordination, and audit readiness across I-9, ERISA Wrap, and Flex Plan.
  • •Own Rippling as the system of record, configuring workflows, ensuring data integrity, and automating onboarding and offboarding.

Key Requirements

  • •8+ years in People Ops or HR Operations, with meaningful time owning a People Ops function at a high-growth technology company through a significant scale-up phase
  • •Deep, hands-on Rippling experience — workflow config, data integrity, reporting, onboarding flows.
  • •Global employment experience across multiple regions — EoR coordination (Rippling Global, Multiplier, Remote, Deel, or similar), international contractor structuring, and cross-border compliance across US, UK, EU, APAC, or LATAM
  • •Built automations and workflows yourself — you've shipped something using Zapier, Make, or an LLM-assisted workflow.
  • •Strong working knowledge of California employment law and multi-state compliance, including leave administration, accommodations, and contractor classification
Experience:8+ yearsAIDeveloper tools
Skills:LeadershipOwnershipProcess designStakeholder managementData-driven decision making
Languages:English
Tech Stack:RipplingZapierMakeLLMAI tools

Company Brief

LangChain
Provides an open-source framework and commercial platform (LangSmith/LangGraph) for building, testing, monitoring, and deploying LLM-powered applications and agentic AI for developers and enterprises.
Industry: Developer Tools
Company Size: Medium (51 to 250 employees)
Revenue: USD 10M to 25M
Growth: Scaleup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
Founded: 2022
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