Head of People & Performance (Remote-First)

Launch Potato; United States; Remote; USD 170,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Launch Potato is a growth-focused, remote-first company with a South Florida HQ and teams across 18 countries. We offer real ownership over performance management, total rewards, and compliance, with a focus on leverage, calibration, and durable processes that scale as we grow beyond 200 people.

You’ll own the mid-year and annual cycles end to end. You will lead a small team, shape the compensation framework, and drive strategic people initiatives.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated ownership of full performance cycles.
• Experience designing compensation and benefits.
• Strong HR compliance experience across multiple states.
• Proven ability to build scalable people systems.
• Proven coaching and growing a team.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end performance cycles, including design, timeline, calibration, rollout and retro.
• Design and benchmark total rewards, including band design and annual comp cycles.
• Manage HR compliance backlog across states (I-9, handbook, postings).
• Lead and enable managers with playbooks, calibration, and self-service resources.
• Build and optimize tooling to accelerate HR processes while maintaining quality.

Skills

End-to-end ownership

Total rewards design

HR compliance

People system

Process automation

Scale leadership

Coaching & growth

Job description

Launch Potato is a growth-focused, remote-first company with a South Florida HQ and teams across 18 countries. We offer real ownership over performance management, total rewards, and compliance, with a focus on leverage, calibration, and durable processes that scale as we grow beyond 200 people.

You’ll own the mid-year and annual cycles end to end. You will lead a small team, shape the compensation framework, and drive strategic people initiatives.