Head of People & Performance

Do you want to empower organizations to build smarter compensation strategies while ensuring fair pay for all employees?

Syndio is a Series C technology company leveraging advanced technology and responsible AI to accelerate decision-making, streamline compliance, and democratize insights for consistent, equitable compensation practices at scale. Backed by $83M in investments from Bessemer Venture Partners, Voyager Capital, and Emerson Collective, we are expanding our team and products to help companies align their rewards strategies with their business goals.

Our customers are our greatest asset. Syndio partners with many of the world’s most recognized and respected enterprises, helping them implement leading-edge compensation solutions with expert guidance. We analyze pay for over 10 million employees across dozens of countries, ensuring fair, defensible rewards that drive better business outcomes.

Join us in our mission to help companies make smarter pay decisions they can trust!

• You’ll define what strong leadership looks like at Syndio. Not through training programs alone — through clear behavioral standards, real accountability, and operating norms that actually stick.
• Establish a clear model for who owns culture, performance, and development — and make sure leaders actually own it.

• You own the performance architecture, from goal-setting through performance conversations, all the way to how individual work connects to company outcomes..
• Evolve how Syndio defines and measures strong performance for an AI-enabled workplace.
• Lead org design and change management as Syndio's operating model continues to shift.

• You’ll lead the culture roadmap. Diagnose what’s working, identify what needs to shift, and build what’s missing.
• Design engagement approaches tied to what actually drives retention and performance.
• Build conditions for greater accountability and ownership at every level of the organization.

• Champion an AI-native approach to People work — automating the transactional processes, while amplifying human judgment, coaching, and leadership.
• You’ll own the human side of AI transformation: job design, reskilling, performance evolution, and change enablement.
• Partner with the CEO and senior leadership to translate business strategy into people strategy at the speed the company requires.

• Oversee talent acquisition strategy to attract and close candidates who thrive in transformation environments.
• You own compensation philosophy and total rewards. Competitive, equitable, and aligned to how Syndio actually values contribution.
• Ensure People operations are scalable, automated where appropriate, and not consuming strategic capacity.

• Senior HR leadership in technology companies, through meaningful periods of transformation or scaling.
• A track record of building strategic People functions — not primarily compliance or administrative infrastructure.
• Experience defining leadership standards and building accountability into culture, not just managing development programs.
• Demonstrated work in performance, engagement, and culture with measurable outcomes.
• Comfort as a CEO-level thought partner — you bring a point of view and know how to influence without authority.
• You’ve applied AI to People workflows, org design, or workforce strategy in a practical way
• You’re a systems thinker who sees the whole before redesigning any part — and a builder who’s energized by creating what doesn’t exist yet.
• You communicate with clarity and directness. You turn complexity into action, not more process.

At Syndio, we're building a diverse team that values candor, curiosity, and community. If you share these values and are interested in joining us, we'd love to talk with you even if you don't 100% meet the "about you" listed here. We don't expect anyone to have all the answers, as long as you're willing to learn and grow with us.

Syndio is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are building an inclusive and collaborative workplace as we grow, and we welcome team members regardless of gender/identity, sexual orientation, race or cultural background, religion, physical disability and age.