--- title: "Head of Talent and People" company: "Sardine" company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/sardine" url: "https://www.remjobs.works/job/sardine-head-of-talent-and-people-3bd2db09-280e-4c4f-97da-65235665ca97" apply_url: "https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/a3801830-a009-4115-899c-3af9729e6840" workplace: hybrid location: "Berkeley, California" employment_type: full-time seniority: vp role: people region: united-states salary: "$250,000–$300,000 per year" date_posted: 2026-09-18T02:19:23.996Z first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-18T03:15:33.031Z --- # Head of Talent and People **Sardine** · Berkeley, California Salary: $250,000–$300,000 per year Apply: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/sardine/a3801830-a009-4115-899c-3af9729e6840 ## About Sardine The top agentic risk platform used by leading banks and merchants worldwide to stop fraud in real-time, prevent AI-driven attacks, automate fraud & AML operations ## About the role **Who we are:** Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products. **Our culture:** - We have hubs in the Bay Area, NYC, Austin, Toronto, and São Paulo. However, we maintain a remote-first work culture. #WorkFromAnywhere - We hire talented, self-motivated individuals with extreme ownership and high growth orientation. - We value performance and not hours worked. We believe you shouldn't have to miss your family dinner, your kid's school play, friends get-together, or doctor's appointments for the sake of adhering to an arbitrary work schedule.**About the role** Sardine is looking for a Head of Talent & People to lead and grow our global team. This is a hands-on, player-coach role - you'll set direction and manage a full team of practitioners, while still staying close enough to the work to source a hard-to-fill candidate yourself, sit in on a tough employee relations conversation, or dig into a comp band directly. You'll own Talent, People Ops, and HR Business Partnering end-to-end, with a mandate to build pragmatic systems that scale with a fast-growing startup. **What you'll be doing** Team Leadership - Lead and manage a team of Recruiters, People Ops/HR professionals, including any team leads within those functions - Set goals, priorities, and capacity plans across Recruitment and People Ops/HR - Coach, develop, and performance-manage team; build a bench of future team leads as the org grows - Own headcount planning across the organization - Create the operating rhythm for the team (standups, pipeline reviews, OKRs, hiring sprints) without over-processizing a still-scrappy function - Model the player-coach standard you expect from the team - jump into the work alongside themTalent Acquisition (the largest part of the job. This role is Talent-heavy) - Build and continuously improve our hiring process: interview loops, scorecards, calibration, and candidate experience - Partner directly with the CEO and Exec team on leadership hires. Own full-cycle recruiting for key leadership roles, including sourcing, screening, and closing candidates yourself - Build scalable sourcing channels and employer branding so Sardine competes for top talent without over-relying on agencies - Track and report on hiring metrics (pipeline health, time-to-fill, offer acceptance) and adjust strategy accordinglyPeople Operations - Oversee the People Ops Lead and team who own the employee lifecycle (onboarding, offboarding, HRIS administration, benefits administration, and compliance) - ensure the function runs smoothly and scales with rest of the company - Manage and scale our existing performance review, compensation banding, leveling, and promotion cycle infrastructure - this is already built and robust; your job is to run it well, refine it as we grow, and make sure it stays credible with employees and managers - Ensure compliance with employment law across jurisdictions where Sardine has employees, in partnership with your People Ops team - Provide oversight and escalation support on vendor relationships (benefits brokers, payroll providers) that the People Ops Lead manages day to dayHR Business Partnering - Act as a trusted advisor to managers and the leadership team on org design, team structure, performance management, and employee relations - Partner with leaders as an internal leadership coach - Handle employee relations issues with sound judgment, discretion, and fairness**What you'll need** - 12+ years in talent/recruiting and people roles, with real depth in talent - Experience running people function at fast-paced, high-growth tech startups - Proven experience managing a strong Talent and People team, ideally spanning both Recruitment and People Ops/HR - you know how to set direction, hold people accountable, and develop managers - Generalist range: you're equally credible talking about an offer negotiation, a comp band, a difficult employee relations issue, or a performance management - A player-coach mindset - you want to do the work, not just direct it - Excellent judgment and discretion; you build trust quickly with founders, execs, and employees at every level - Strong operating instincts: you build lightweight, scalable systems rather than heavy process - Based in the Bay Area, with the ability to work from our Berkeley office at least 2 days every week**Benefits we offer:** - Generous compensation in cash and equity - Early exercise for all options, including pre-vested - Work from anywhere: Remote-first Culture - Flexible paid time off and Year-end break - Health insurance, dental, and vision coverage for employees and dependents - US and Canada specific - 4% matching in 401k / RRSP - US and Canada specific - MacBook Pro delivered to your door - One-time stipend to set up a home office — desk, chair, screen, etc. - Monthly meal stipend - Monthly social meet-up stipend - Annual health and wellness stipend - Annual Learning stipendJoin a fast-growing company with world-class professionals from around the world. If you are seeking a meaningful career, you found the right place, and we would love to hear from you. *To learn more about how we process your personal information and your rights in regards to your personal information as an applicant and Sardine employee, please visit our *[Applicant and Worker Privacy Notice](https://www.sardine.ai/applicant-and-worker-privacy-notice)*.* --- Source: Sardine's own career page, read by RemJobs. Canonical HTML version: https://www.remjobs.works/job/sardine-head-of-talent-and-people-3bd2db09-280e-4c4f-97da-65235665ca97