People & Talent Lead

Kestra; United States; Remote; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Kestra is hiring its first dedicated People hire to own recruitment and People operations. This remote, full-time role reports to the co-founders and collaborates with hiring managers as the company grows from 50 to 100 people across regions.

Working language is English, with the opportunity to shape the function and scale core HR processes. You will lead from sourcing to offer, coordinate interview processes, manage contracts, payroll partners, benefits, and onboarding for new joiners, while

Qualifications

• Leading recruitment and people operations for a growing company.
• Experience building HR processes across multiple countries is a plus.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Recruitment from sourcing to signed offer and interview coordination.
• People operations across countries, contracts, payroll, benefits and time off.
• Onboarding and setting expectations for new joiners.
• Develop compensation and performance processes with founders.

Job description

Remote from France or Germany Full-time

Become Kestra’s first dedicated People hire. Help us grow from 50 to 100 people over the next 12 to 18 months, and strengthen the foundations that help a distributed team work well together.

You will own recruitment and People operations, working directly with the founders and hiring managers. This is a hands‑on role with room to shape the function as we grow. Reporting to: Emmanuel (CEO) and Ludovic (CTO), our co‑founders. Working language: English.

Why Kestra

Orchestrate everything, everywhere. From one control plane. Data, infrastructure, business processes and AI agents. Build, run and govern them all, in the cloud or on your own servers. AI agents follow the same rules as everything else. We believe orchestration is becoming a shared layer of enterprise architecture: the layer that coordinates what runs across tools, teams and environments. Kestra is building that foundation as an open‑source platform, giving enterprises a common way to manage increasingly complex automation. Founded in France, we are growing our enterprise business in Europe and the United States. In March 2026, we raised a $25M Series A led by RTP Global, with Alven, ISAI and Axeleo. Teams at JPMorgan Chase, Apple, TotalEnergies, Crédit Agricole, Leroy Merlin, Bloomberg and Deutsche Telekom run Kestra in production.

The opportunity

Our next stage depends on bringing in the right people and helping them succeed. We are hiring across Sales, Engineering, Product, Marketing and Customer Operations, with substantial growth planned across functions and all the regions where we operate. You will bring dedicated People and Talent leadership to an established organisation, working with the founders, hiring managers and the Administration, Workplace Operations and Finance teams that already support our People processes. With colleagues across more than ten countries and many recent joiners, the work goes beyond hiring. People need a good start, clear expectations and connections across teams. You will help make that experience consistent as we grow.

What you will own

Recruitment from sourcing to signed offer. Find and engage candidates, run initial conversations, coordinate focused interview processes and keep the ATS reliable. Work with the founders and leaders across functions to prioritise roles and help hiring managers make well‑supported decisions. People operations across countries. Work with our Administration, Workplace Operations and Finance teams to coordinate contracts, payroll partners, EOR providers, benefits, time off and employee requests. Keep records and deadlines clear, and work with local providers and advisers on employment requirements. Onboarding that gets people started well. Make the practical setup smooth and help managers give new joiners clear expectations, useful context and the right relationships from day one. Compensation and performance processes. Develop the framework with the founders, then run the cycles: salary reviews, level