We are a fast-growing Series A startup building cutting-edge technology to revolutionize cloud development processes and support highly efficient dev&test feedback loops. We’ve closed our last $25mil round in Q4 2024, led by Notable Capital, CRV and Heavybit.
At its core, LocalStack provides a high-fidelity emulator and local cloud development platform. Imagine developing cloud applications and data pipelines entirely on your local machine within a lightweight cloud sandbox, running in Docker!
Our mission is to empower developers to rapidly build and test their cloud applications, allowing for a more enjoyable dev experience, and saving valuable time and resources.
LocalStack has a large and active open-source community (57k+ stars on GitHub) with over 100k active users worldwide and 290M+ downloads to date. Our customer base ranges from SMBs to Global Fortune 500 companies.
We are sustainably growing our globally distributed team across sectors
LocalStack is headquartered in Zurich/Switzerland 🇨🇭, with a main engineering office in Vienna/Austria 🇦🇹 and remote team members from 🇺🇸the US, 🇫🇷FR, 🇬🇧UK, 🇨🇦CA, 🇪🇸ES, and many more countries.
👉Check us out on GitHub.
This is the right opportunity for a seasoned People leader with experience in building and growing people function in a product first organization, with about 2-4 years in a people leadership role, and who is ready to step in as a hands on leader to drive growth.
Requirements
✅ What you will be working on/responsible for
- HR policies: establish and implement relevant HR policies to support our employees in multiple countries
- Career framework: work with department managers to establish and implement career framework, ensuring its communicated and understood by all employees. Establish L&D initiatives to help employees grow in their career.
- Compensation structure: establish and implement effective compensation structure in multiple geographies we are working in. This includes bonus and equity/ESOP structure.
- Performance management: establish and embed performance management framework, work with managers on successfully implementing it.
- Employee experience: establish and track eNPS
- Ad hoc HR issues and tasks: be a point person for any ad hoc issues and questions, ensuring that all employees feel comfortable approaching you with any feedback
- Onboarding: creating, and further leading, an effective onboarding flow, building on our existing foundation.
- Supporting founders: lead people initiatives together with leadership team, driving improvements and ensuring we remain people focused organization as we grow in size. Offer suggestions and coach leadership team on how they can improve.
- HR Tools and Contract management: uplift the HR tech stack we use. Work with legal and finance team to manage employment contracts and employees working on contract basis. Review contract itself with legal and implement improvements. Work with external providers where necessary.
- Be a “culture creator”: Guard our values throughout the organization as we work in the remote first context in a multi cultural environment.
- Support the leadership team in defining OKRs for the organization in addition to driving the definition of People related OKRs
✅ Experience we expect you to bring to the role
- Positive mindset and servant leadership style
- Player -coach: comfortable with being hands on in HR concepts whilst exhibiting thought leadership in people related subjects
- (preferred) Experience scaling series A venture to later stages
- Experience in a dynamic, developing and chaotic environment
- Experience building effective processes and frameworks from scratch
- Experience in a multi cultural, remote first environment, preferably spanning across North America and Europe
🪢 Values we hold in LocalStack
- Care: we create with compassion. We prioritize empathy and understanding in every interaction. By genuinely caring for our team, customers, and community, we create an environment where people thrive and impactful work flourishes
- Ownership: we own the outcome. We take responsibility for our work and are passionate about its impact. We foster autonomy, inspire ambition, encourage ownership, and empower everyone to unlock their potential and make an impact.
- Openness: we build trust together. We build trust through open communication and honest feedback. By sharing ideas and embracing diverse perspectives, we create stronger, more connected teams that work toward shared goals.
- Courage: we dare to innovate. We embrace bold challenges and take calculated risks to move the needle. We step outside our comfort zones, experiment fearlessly, and turn setbacks into springboards for growth.
- Excellence: we chase the extraordinary. We chase excellence by pushing boundaries and delivering results that go beyond the ordinary, constantly raising the bar and striving for greatness in everything we do. Excellence is not just the outcome, itʼs how we approach every task with purpose, passion, and a commitment to delivering exceptional value.
Benefits
🎁Benefits
- Fully remote
- Competitive salary
- Performance bonus
- Competitive share options
- Annual company retreat
- The best equipment for your role
- Learning budget
Sounds like a good match?
We'd love to hear from you! Join us in shaping the future of cloud development at LocalStack.
To apply, follow the LI application process or apply on our career page. Make sure to include a short motivation outlining why you are the perfect candidate for this role.
If your profile looks like a good match, Alexandra Paiser will be in touch to organize further steps within 2 weeks.
Please note, that due to a high volume of candidates, we cannot offer personalized feedback to each candidate.
