People & Culture Lead

🎯 Why This Role Matters In a consulting firm, the quality of the team is the quality of the business. As our People & Culture Lead, you will own how we find great people, how we hire them, how we onboard and grow them, and how the whole company stays informed and aligned along the way. Recruiting, HR operations, and internal communications are one role here because at our size they are one connected problem: building a team that does great work and enjoys doing it. You'll work directly with our founders and leadership team, with real autonomy over how the People function runs. If you like fixing processes before anyone asks and you treat hiring as a craft rather than a funnel, this role is for you. 🧠 How You'll Contribute Recruiting: Own full-cycle hiring for roles across strategy, engineering, and operations: sourcing, screening, structured assessments, panels, references, and offers. Run assessment processes that surface real signal: realistic working sessions, take-home scenarios, and calibrated scoring rather than gut-feel interviews. Keep the process resistant to inflated claims, coordinated application fraud, and AI-generated noise in the pipeline. Build talent pipelines ahead of need so hiring is a decision, not a scramble. People Operations: Run onboarding and offboarding end-to-end, from getting new teammates productive quickly to handling clean, compliant separations. Own the operational backbone: day-to-day employee administration and questions, including con