Vice President Human Resources

Pareto Solutions Group, Inc.; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Pareto Solutions Group, Inc. is seeking an experienced HR leader to design and drive our people strategy for a fast-growing, distributed team across multiple states.

You will own workforce planning, HRIS/ATS, onboarding, and policy development while coaching managers, closing executive candidates, and elevating our employer brand through scalable programs and data-driven decisions.

Qualifications

• 8+ years in human resources, startups preferred.
• Experience mentoring coordinators.
• Experience selecting/implementing HRIS/ATS.
• Proven self-directed workflow automation or self-service systems.
• Strong operational and program management discipline.
• Ability to close executive candidates and coach a team.
• Excellent communicator who writes policy and presents to leadership.
• Genuine care for people with decisive judgement.

Responsibilities

• Partner with leadership on workforce planning and compensation strategy.
• Own/optimize HRIS/ATS tooling and onboarding systems.
• Design onboarding to embed culture and ensure multi-state compliance.
• Lead engagement, internal communications, and culture programming.
• Oversee employment agreements and recruiting infrastructure.
• Manage TA team, interview loop design, scorecards, and offers.
• Calibrate interviewers and close executive candidates for pipelines.
• Serve as primary point of contact for employee questions and sensitive issues.
• Partner with managers on performance conversations and team dynamics.
• Run 1:1s, exit interviews, and maintain leadership data.

Skills

Workforce planning

Leadership

Communication

Policy development

Automation

People management

Tools

HRIS

ATS

Onboarding

Job description

• Partner with leadership on workforce planning, including role definition, headcount prioritization, level stratification, and compensation strategy.
• Build the policy/documentation framework: employee handbook, job architecture, comp bands, performance review cadence, and PIP process
• Own/optimize the HRIS technology (HRIS, ATS, onboarding, benefits, etc), selecting, implementing, and maintaining systems that scale with growth
• Design an onboarding experience that embeds culture and accelerates ramp; ensure multi-state compliance for a distributed workforce
• Exemplify an automation mindset by building self-service workflows, eliminating manual repetition, and documenting systems
• Lead engagement, internal communications, and culture programming, including quarterly off-sites, using data
• Lead the review and application of employment agreements when applicable
• Own recruiting infrastructure including the ATS configuration, interview loop design, scorecards, offer frameworks, and employer brand positioning
• Manage and develop a talent acquisition professional who runs day-to-day sourcing, interviewing, and coordination across Engineering, Product, and GTM.
• Calibrate interviewers, close executive-level candidates, and ensure quality and consistency across all pipelines.
• Serve as the primary point of contact for employee questions, concerns, and sensitive situations and handle them directly
• Partner with managers on performance conversations, coaching, and team dynamics prior to escalation
• Run 1:1s, exit interviews, and maintain data to keep leadership informed
• Be the individual employees trust to listen first and act with discretion

Qualifications

• 8+ years in human resources with experience in startups being preferred
• Prior experience managing or mentoring coordinators
• Previous experience in selecting/implementing HRIS, ATS tooling from scratch
• Previous examples of self-directed workflow automation (using/creating automation tools) or self-service systems
• Strong operational and program management discipline
• Sufficient experience with or comfort around talent acquisition to set the bar, close executive candidates, and coach a team
• Excellent communicator comfortable writing policy, presenting to leadership, and representing the company externally
• Genuine care for people while being decisive