Get in on the ground floor at one of the top startups on the East Coast! We're looking for a highly motivated individual to join Shelf as our first Manager of People. As the founding member of our US HR function, your efforts will directly impact the company's success and overall growth.

The Manager of People will support all aspects of HR, laying the groundwork as we seek to scale from our recent $50M Series B round to IPO and beyond. We are looking for an ambitious, entrepreneurial, interesting person who wants to help build the future of our company. We want intellectually curious, motivated people who have a growth mindset and get energized each day to seize a massive opportunity. We are excited to invest in and train high potential individuals ready for career growth. If this sounds like you, come and join us!

You will:

• Provide leadership in human resources by developing hiring, training, and performance management policies and procedures
• Maintain company HR systems, ensuring all are linked, maintained, and automated
• Ensure best practices are applied to on and offboarding processes
• Establish and enforce workplace policies and manage employee relations issues
• Manage employee benefits
• Evaluate employee performance, providing feedback, and rewarding or disciplining employees when necessary
• Ensure that the organization has an effective recruitment process for hiring new employees and promoting from within for future growth stages
• Review employee records to ensure compliance with labor laws
• Create and maintain internal training and development programs
• Work with senior management to develop organizational culture by creating job descriptions, interviewing candidates, and hiring new employees

Who we are looking for:

• Full stack HR experience in an early-stage growth company, as well as other career experience in one or more later stage companies
• High emotional intelligence and ability to work cross-functionally as well as vertically through the organization
• Culturally sensitive, global experience, and the ability to work cross-border with a diverse range of global team members
• Empathy, active listening, and the ability to solve problems for staff and stakeholders
• Demonstrated communication, and project management abilities
• High attention to detail and follow through
• Requires minimal direction; Looking to step up to higher level of responsibility
• Clear understanding of high technology and enterprise SaaS
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent required
• Experienced candidates returning to the workplace are welcome
• Must have valid passport and willing to travel as needed
• Must be able to work onsite in Stamford, CT a minimum of 3x per week

Benefit Highlights:

• Generous equity grant in the form of company stock options
• Unlimited PTO

Location:

Stamford, CT (Hybrid - Requires a minimum of 3x per week onsite)

The Company:

Our mission at Shelf is to empower humanity with better answers everywhere. Shelf is a highly awarded, innovative knowledge automation platform that revolutionizes how organizations curate and distribute company knowledge. With our powerful MerlinAI, Shelf helps organizations move from their difficult to use, legacy knowledge base to knowledge automation delivering answers on demand to employees in real time. With many pre-built integrations, SDKs and APIs, Shelf's open knowledge infrastructure is extensible and integrates seamlessly with enterprise applications to improve the customer experience and employee productivity.