Director, People Operations

In Brief

• Bayesian Health is an early-stage startup on a mission to make healthcare proactive by empowering physicians, nurses, and care team members with real-time data to save lives.

• We are looking for our first internal Head of People to establish, run, and grow the People Operations/Human Resources function. This role blends strategy with execution (you’ll be both an architect and a builder) and is critical to our ability to scale.

Who We Are

Bayesian Health’s mission is to improve patient outcomes by empowering clinicians with the insights they need to make the right decision for the right patient at the point-of-care. We’re a diverse team of clinicians, engineers, machine learning experts, product designers, and performance improvement leaders committed to enabling smarter, patient-specific care delivery through unlocking the power of data.

We’re funded by top tier tech and biotech investors: Obvious Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, American Medical Association’s venture arm, Catalio Partners, and LifeForce Capital. Our company has won many awards; most recent recognitions include: Forbes AI Top 50, World Economic Forum Tech Pioneer, Time Best Inventions, BioTech AI Company of the Year.

Read more about our recent publication in Nature Medicine that associates our products with lives saved.

What You’ll Do

• Establish and lead Bayesian’s People Operations function from the ground up -- design, implement, and improve HR systems, policies, and programs that will scale with the company’s growth.

• Partner with the CEO and leadership team on organizational design, talent strategy, and culture.

• Shape and sustain a strong remote-first culture that fosters connection, engagement, performance, and belonging.

• Manage the full employee lifecycle from onboarding and performance to compensation, benefits, and offboarding, and everything in between.

• Partner with hiring managers and recruiters to attract and retain top talent.

• Establish core management practices by introducing frameworks for goal setting,

  feedback, and career development that enable managers to lead effectively

• Build data-driven people processes and reporting to guide decision-making and measure

  impact.

• Introduce tools and infrastructure to strengthen company operations and institutional

  memory.

Qualifications

• 8+ years of progressive HR/People Operations experience, including experience in a leadership role, ideally in a high-growth or startup environment.

• Proven hands-on experience establishing HR systems from the ground up - from benefits and policies to performance management and career development frameworks, and everything in between.

• Track record of partnering effectively with executives and influencing organizational change through data-driven insights.

• Strong cultural leadership - able to preserve what makes Bayesian special while introducing structure that supports sustainable growth.

• Business-minded approach to People work, with the ability to demonstrate ROI of people investments.

• Experience designing and scaling people programs in a distributed, remote-first environment.

• Approachable and empathetic, with strong relationship-building and conflict-resolution skills.

• Interest in operational excellence beyond HR - leveraging AI tools, workflows, and infrastructure to improve efficiency and knowledge retention.

Bayesian Health provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

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