Chief People Officer — Remote-First, AI-Driven People Strategy

xCures Inc.; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

xCures Inc. is seeking a Chief People Officer to shape the people strategy for a fully remote, fast-growing company in the United States.

You will partner with the CEO on org design, executive hiring, and a comprehensive people roadmap, owning workforce planning and the compensation framework across the organization. You will build leadership capability, design a scalable performance system, and lead total rewards while transitioning from a PEO model as we scale.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive people leadership, including at least one run as the senior-most people leader (CHRO/VP People).
• Proven operator who does the work directly when the team is small and builds the team as the company grows.
• Direct ownership of compensation, equity, and leveling design at a venture-backed company, incl. benchmarking and modeling.
• Experience partnering with a CEO on org design and executive hiring as a strategic partner.
• Demonstrated results building culture, leadership development, and performance management at a distributed company.
• Working knowledge of multi-state employment law and compliance.
• Fluency with AI tools applied to people operations.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO on org design, executive hiring, and company direction, and translate the business plan into a people roadmap with owners and dates.
• Own the workforce plan and hold the company to it: headcount by function, hiring waves tied to business triggers, and the revenue-per-head discipline that goes with them.
• Help the CEO and executive team assess, close, and onboard senior leaders, and build an executive team that operates as one.
• Set and hold the culture of a fully remote company as it grows, through rituals, communication norms, and decision habits that survive the next 100 hires.
• Own compensation, equity, and total rewards strategy in partnership with Finance: benchmarking, pay equity, comp modeling, and the equity refresh program.

Skills

People leadership

Executive partnership

Org design

Compensation design

Equity design

Culture & perf mgmt

Multi-state compliance

AI in People Ops

Tools

HRIS

PEO management

Job description

xCures Inc. is seeking a Chief People Officer to shape the people strategy for a fully remote, fast-growing company in the United States.

You will partner with the CEO on org design, executive hiring, and a comprehensive people roadmap, owning workforce planning and the compensation framework across the organization. You will build leadership capability, design a scalable performance system, and lead total rewards while transitioning from a PEO model as we scale.