VP - People & Culture

Autonomize; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity

Employer-paid health insurance

401(k) and disability

Job summary

Autonomize AI seeks a senior People leader to partner with the CEO and executive team, shaping hiring, leadership development, and scalable team design for a fast-growing healthcare AI company.

You will drive organizational design, workforce planning, and performance management while coaching executives and building a high-performing culture across global teams.

Qualifications

• 12+ years of progressive People leadership experience.
• Experience partnering with founders or CEOs in high-growth companies.
• Deep expertise in organizational design, workforce planning, executive coaching, and performance management.
• Track record of building high-accountability cultures while retaining exceptional talent.
• Experience scaling technology, AI, SaaS, healthcare technology, or enterprise software.
• Strong executive presence with a hands-on, roll-up-your-sleeves mindset.
• Experience working with distributed global teams.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the CEO and executive team to shape hiring, leadership development, and team design.
• Design scalable organizations, lead workforce planning and headcount strategy across functions.
• Build and evolve a high-performance operating system with goal setting, feedback, and promotions processes.
• Coach executives and managers to become exceptional leaders and build succession plans.
• Translate Culture Code into everyday hiring decisions and leadership expectations, and improve internal communications.
• Lead the broader People function and ensure scalable compensation, benefits, compliance, and people programs.

Skills

Executive leadership

Organizational design

Workforce planning

Executive coaching

Performance management

Distributed teams

Healthcare/HealthTech experience

Job description

About Autonomize AI

Autonomize AI is revolutionizing healthcare by transforming how knowledge flows across the enterprise. Our AI-native platform helps healthcare organizations automate complex clinical and administrative workflows, enabling clinicians, operators, and care teams to focus on what matters most—improving patient outcomes.

We’re scaling rapidly across Product, Engineering, Clinical, Customer Success, and Go-to-Market. As we enter our next phase of growth, we’re looking for an exceptional People leader to help build the organization that will define the future of AI in healthcare.

The Opportunity

This is not a traditional HR leadership role.

We’re looking for a builder—a strategic operator who can help scale Autonomize from a fast‑growing startup into an enduring company without losing the speed, ownership, and ambition that got us here.

You’ll partner directly with our CEO and executive team to shape how we hire, develop leaders, design teams, drive performance, and strengthen our culture. You’ll coach executives, solve organizational challenges before they become bottlenecks, and build systems that help exceptional people do the best work of their careers.

If you enjoy solving complex organizational problems, influencing executives, and building high‑performance cultures, this role is for you.

What You’ll Own

Executive Partnership

• Serve as a trusted advisor to the CEO and leadership team on organizational design, talent strategy, succession planning, and leadership effectiveness.
• Bring data and insight into workforce health, engagement, retention, and organizational risks.
• Help leadership make better, faster people decisions.

Organizational Design & Scaling

• Design organizations that scale with the business.
• Lead workforce planning and headcount strategy across functions.
• Improve clarity around ownership, decision‑making, and cross‑functional execution.
• Guide organizational changes while maintaining momentum.

Performance & Leadership

• Build and evolve a high‑performance operating system for the company.
• Improve goal setting, feedback, calibration, promotions, and rewards.
• Coach executives and managers to become exceptional leaders.
• Build succession plans and develop high‑potential talent.

Culture & Internal Communications

• Translate our Culture Code into everyday behaviors, hiring decisions, and leadership expectations.
• Improve communication rhythms across the company.
• Strengthen collaboration between our U.S. and India teams.
• Lead change management during periods of rapid growth.

People Strategy & Operations

• Lead the broader People function while partnering with our existing People Operations team.
• Ensure scalable compensation, benefits, compliance, and people programs.
• Leverage AI and automation to modernize People workflows.
• Build dashboards and metrics that help leaders make better decisions.

What Success Looks Like (First 12 Months)

In your first year, you’ll:

• Deliver a company‑wide organizational and talent assessment with a clear roadmap.
• Implement a scalable workforce planning and headcount governance process.
• Build a practical performance management system that managers actually use.
• Elevate leadership capability through coaching and manager development.
• Improve communication, decision‑making, and execution across teams.
• Operationalize our Culture Code throughout hiring, performance, and recognition.
• Scale the People function with better systems, automation, and analytics.

What We’re Looking For

You may be a VP today—or a high‑impact Head of People ready for your next challenge.

We’re looking for someone who has:

• 12+ years of progressive People leadership experience.
• Experience partnering directly with founders or CEOs in high‑growth companies.
• Deep expertise in organizational design, workforce planning, executive coaching, and performance management.
• A track record of building high‑accountability cultures while retaining exceptional talent.
• Experience scaling technology, AI, SaaS, healthcare technology, or enterprise software organizations.
• Strong executive presence with a hands‑on, roll‑up‑your‑sleeves mindset.
• Experience working with distributed global teams.

Bonus Points

• Experience scaling companies from roughly 75–500 employees.
• Experience operating across the U.S. and India.
• Venture‑backed startup experience.
• Experience using AI to improve People operations.
• Healthcare or HealthTech experience.

Who Will Thrive Here

• Take full ownership from strategy through execution.
• Build systems that scale instead of creating bureaucracy.
• Move quickly while maintaining high quality.
• Coach leaders through difficult conversations.
• Love solving ambiguous organizational problems.
• Raise the bar for everyone around you.
• Believe culture is built through behaviors—rather than posters.

What We Offer

• A chance to help shape one of the fastest‑growing AI companies in healthcare.
• Direct partnership with experienced founders and executive leaders.
• High ownership with enormous opportunity for growth.
• Competitive compensation and meaningful equity.
• 100% employer‑paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• 401(k), disability insurance, and employee assistance programs.
• The opportunity to build the People organization that powers the next generation of AI.