Senior People Business Partner

We’re creating the shift to voice as humanity’s default interface.

We’re the most configurable platform for deploying voice agents.

We’re grown to 400,000 developers in 20 months, adding 2,000+ every day.

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As Vapi scales rapidly, we need a senior People leader who can own the operational backbone of our People function while serving as a trusted partner to leaders across the company. This role is critical to ensuring our People operations, compliance, and core programs scale with rigor while maintaining a high bar for leadership, performance, and culture.

30 Day:

• Build a deep understanding of Vapi’s business, culture, values, and operating cadence

• Audit existing People operations, HRIS workflows, compliance posture, and documentation

• Establish strong working relationships with the Head of Talent & People, founders, and functional leaders

• Take ownership of day-to-day People operations and employee support

60 Day:

• Fully own HR operations and compliance end-to-end, including onboarding, HRIS data integrity, contractor management, and policy maintenance

• Begin leading active People programs such as performance management, employee relations cases, and manager coaching

• Partner with leaders on current organizational needs, including team growth, role clarity, and performance expectations

• Identify gaps and improvement areas across People processes and tooling

90 Day:

• Independently run performance review cycles, manager enablement programs, and core People initiatives

• Serve as a trusted advisor to leaders on performance, feedback, and organizational effectiveness

• Operationalize scalable People programs that support Vapi’s next phase of growth

• Act as a consistent culture carrier, reinforcing expectations, values, and operating principles

6+ years of experience in HR, People Operations, or HR Business Partner roles, ideally in high-growth startups

Proven ability to independently own HR operations and compliance with strong attention to detail

Deep working knowledge of employment law fundamentals, employee relations, and HR best practices

Hands-on experience managing HRIS platforms and operational workflows

Experience owning performance review cycles and People programs end-to-end

Comfortable partnering directly with founders and senior leaders

Strong judgment, discretion, and ability to navigate sensitive situations

Clear, direct communicator with a bias toward action and practical solutions

Comfortable operating in ambiguity and building structure from scratch

Generational impact: Build human interface for every business.

Ownership culture: 90% of company is previous founders.

Kind team: The founders Jordan and Nikhil are Canadians.

Tier-1 Investors: YC, KP seed, Bessemer series A.

Real stake: We offer competitive salary and excellent equity ownership.

Comprehensive health coverage: medical, dental, and vision plans.

Team love: We love hanging out and do quarterly offsites.

Flexible time off: take what you need.

More: catered meals and transportation, gym & coaching stipends!