Job Title:
People Operations Lead
About Us:
UnitX builds the world's leading physical AI systems to automate repetitive visual tasks in factories. UnitX is a fast-moving startup with a team from Stanford, MIT, Google, and beyond. Since inception, UnitX has deployed 1,000+ mission-critical systems across 190+ of the world's leading manufacturers' production lines. Every year, $15B worth of products go through UnitX's AI inspection system to ensure quality.
Join us to take ownership of a people foundation already in motion, and scale it alongside a company that moves fast and builds for the real world.
Role Overview:
As UnitX's first People Operations Lead, you will take ownership of the HR function and scale it as we grow. You will partner directly with the Co-Founder & CEO and Head of Talent to shape how UnitX is organized, how we level and pay our people, and how we keep a fast-growing global team engaged and aligned as we scale. This is a one-person team role in North America, and the work spans three areas: long-term org and comp planning, team values and engagement, and the operational backbone that keeps the company running.
What You'll Do:
Long-term planning
Partner with the CEO and Head of Talent on org structure design as the company scales, including reporting lines, span of control, and how new functions are stood up.
Own and evolve our global leveling and compensation framework, creating consistency and clarity across geographies and ensuring leveling decisions hold up over time.
Build the infrastructure for performance review cycles and help managers deliver consistent, high-quality feedback.
Team values, engagement, and culture
Run engagement surveys and go deep on the results, surfacing the patterns and root causes leadership needs to act on, not just the headline scores.
Build the middle manager layer: identify who needs support, create the enablement and feedback loops that level them up, and partner with leadership to push the bar on management quality.
Get ahead of politics and personnel issues before they compound. You'll be the person leaders trust to flag what's actually happening on the ground and to resolve it cleanly.
Foster belonging across a global, distributed team. You'll design and execute the rituals, communications, and programs (offsites, leadership summits, all-hands, team events) that make UnitX feel like one team.
Operations
Own the HR ops backbone: payroll coordination, benefits administration, compliance, leave management, and immigration support for North America.
Run onboarding and offboarding end to end.
Run the weekly global leadership meeting, owning the agenda, tracking OKRs and action items, and driving accountability across the leadership team.
Coordinate with regional HR leaders across our global offices to unify policy and playbook.
Flex into recruiting support as hiring accelerates, partnering with the Head of Talent on sourcing, coordination, and execution.
Who You Are:
You are a builder, not a maintainer. As UnitX's first dedicated HR hire in North America, you're energized by the blank page and excited to leave your fingerprints on a company that moves fast.
You are comfortable being a one-person team. You know how to prioritize, run lean, and own the full surface area of People Ops without a team behind you.
5+ years of hands-on HR or People Operations experience as a senior individual contributor. You've owned a function before, not just supported one.
You've built or meaningfully evolved a leveling and compensation framework, and you have a point of view on how comp philosophy should track with company stage.
You've designed and run engagement surveys and translated the data into action that leadership actually executes on.
You've coached or enabled middle managers and can speak to specific cases where you moved the quality of management at a company.
Recruiting or talent acquisition experience. You've sourced, coordinated, or partnered closely with recruiting teams and can flex in to support hiring when needed.
Comfortable coordinating HR across global, distributed teams with different regional requirements.
Operationally sharp. You like owning systems, closing loops, tracking action items, and keeping leaders organized and accountable.
Strong event planning and logistics coordination skills. You can run an offsite without dropping a detail.
Experience supporting immigration and visa processes for a global workforce.
Bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese is a plus but not required. Helpful for partnering with our APAC team.
Benefits:
Competitive salary & equity
Unlimited PTO
Full Medical, Dental, Vision, 401k
Daily meals provided with your own choice
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What We Do
UnitX was built in 2018 by a team of engineers from Stanford, MIT, and Google with deep respect for the manufacturing industry, UnitX is a robotics company automating repetitive visual tasks in manufacturing industries. We have made this physically demanding and unsafe job an innovative, precise, and easy-to-deploy process all while using deep learning and robotics. UnitX has deployed our product on production lines throughout the country where we have increased the defect inspection rate while simultaneously amplifying the cycle time far above that of a human inspector. We are building the world’s best team in robotics. Join us in building out an industry where we automate repetitive tasks and maximize human intellect! Visit to view our open positions.
