HR

Liminal is the market intelligence company for identity, fraud, cyber, and financial crime. We help the world's leading banks, fintechs, and technology vendors make faster, smarter decisions, powered by a decade of the deepest buyer and vendor data in the space.

We're a Series A company moving fast, and we're looking for the person who will build the people foundation that lets us move faster.

About the role

We need a Director of HR who can operate on two planes at once: a deeply operational role owning payroll, benefits, PEO management, HRIS, and office operations across multiple geographies, and a strategic role as a true business partner to senior leadership, treating people planning as a core input into growth strategy.

What you'll do

Operational excellence

• Run payroll, benefits administration, and HRIS across multiple U.S. states and international geographies in partnership with our PEO and EORs
• Manage compliance with U.S. and international employment law, policies, and procedures
• Own the employee handbook and policy documentation
• Maintain compensation benchmarks, pay bands, promotion ladders, merit cycles, bonus structures, and the benefits program
• Drive core company cadences, including All Hands meetings and offsites

Talent strategy and acquisition

• Partner with hiring managers to build hiring processes that consistently identify and land high performers
• Own the full employee lifecycle: recruiting, onboarding, performance management, development, and offboarding
• Build a compensation philosophy and career framework built for a Series A trajectory

Culture and performance

• Design and run new hire onboarding and training programs
• Design performance management practices that motivate employees
• Shape and protect a culture that rewards high performance, ownership, and speed
• Act as a trusted advisor to managers and leadership on team health, org design, and people issues
• Handle employee relations matters, including performance improvement plans

Strategic workforce planning

• Build headcount plans in direct partnership with the CEO, COO, and CFO, tied to revenue and growth targets
• Bring people metrics (retention, time-to-fill, engagement, comp benchmarking) into board and leadership reporting
• Build manager enablement and training programs
• Serve as a genuine thought partner in company strategy

Qualifications

• 6+ years in HR/People leadership, with experience owning both operational and strategic sides of the function
• Experience building HR from the ground up or scaling it through a high-growth stage (Series A/B or equivalent)
• A track record of hiring and developing high performers, and of building performance management systems
• Comfort operating across multiple geographies and, ideally, international employment considerations
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to lead change management
• The judgment to think like an owner, connecting organizational decisions to business outcomes
• Excellent instincts for culture-building in a small, fast-moving, high-caliber team
• A bias toward building simple, durable systems over process for its own sake

Location

New York City or the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area, hybrid. Some travel across geographies expected.

Compensation

120,000 - 140,000 USD per year (Raleigh, NC) 125,000 - 145,000 USD per year (HQ)