Director of People & Talent

About Argentum AI

Argentum AI is creating an independent institutional cloud for AI, bringing together worldwide GPU compute, power-supported capacity, and enterprise-level infrastructure into a single accountable platform. The company is expanding internationally and needs a strong operating base, team structure, and people systems to support rapid growth.

They are looking for a Director of People & Talent to help shape the people function for the next phase of expansion.

Role Overview

The Director of People & Talent will establish the talent acquisition and people operations foundation that enables Argentum AI to attract, onboard, retain, and support a high-performing team. This position covers both People Operations and Talent Acquisition.

You will lead recruiting strategy and execution while also building the core people processes the company needs as it scales. The ideal person is equally comfortable recruiting directly and handling practical people operations work: sourcing and closing candidates, designing clear hiring workflows, improving onboarding, supporting managers, and putting in place the systems employees need to do their best work.

This is a builder position. Argentum AI is still small enough that the role requires direct execution, but it is growing quickly enough that the person in this seat must also create scalable processes, choose effective tools, and lay the groundwork for a future people team.

Recruiting and Talent Acquisition

• Take ownership of end-to-end recruiting for the company’s highest-priority roles.
• Work with leadership and hiring managers to define role expectations, scorecards, interview stages, and hiring plans.
• Develop a structured recruiting process that improves hiring speed, candidate quality, consistency of evaluation, and offer acceptance rates.
• Source, screen, coordinate, and close candidates for business-critical positions.
• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines for immediate and future hiring needs.
• Strengthen the candidate journey from initial contact through offer and onboarding.
• Create recruiting dashboards and reports that give leadership visibility into pipeline status, bottlenecks, and hiring progress.

People Operations

• Design core people operations workflows for a fast-scaling remote company.
• Improve onboarding so new hires ramp quickly and understand expectations, operating norms, tools, and company priorities.
• Equip managers with support around role clarity, performance expectations, feedback, development, and communication.
• Set up lightweight systems for employee records, policies, benefits coordination, compliance, and internal documentation.
• Partner with leadership on compensation practices, role levels, organizational design, and headcount planning when needed.
• Spot people-related issues early before they turn into scaling challenges.

Culture, Communication, and Employee Experience

• Help create a direct, high-ownership, high-performance culture suited to a fast-growing AI infrastructure business.
• Build practical systems for internal communication, employee feedback, and leadership visibility.
• Support engagement and retention through clear expectations, effective onboarding, manager enablement, and responsive people support.
• Balance speed with structure so the company can grow without unnecessary bureaucracy.

Systems and Tools

• Assess, implement, and improve tools for recruiting, onboarding, employee records, performance management, documentation, and people analytics.
• Create clear workflows so candidates, employees, managers, and leadership know the status of each process.
• Set up simple reporting on recruiting progress, hiring velocity, onboarding completion, and key people metrics.

Success Measures

In the first 90 days, you will learn the company’s hiring priorities, people workflows, tools, manager expectations, and operational gaps. You will take control of priority recruiting and begin improving hiring discipline, candidate experience, and onboarding.

By 6 months, you will have put a more dependable recruiting engine in place, improved the quality and consistency of hiring processes, and established core people operations workflows for a growing remote team.

By 12 months, you will have created a scalable People & Talent foundation, including the systems, processes, reporting, and manager support needed for the company’s next stage of growth.

What We’re Looking For

• Proven success in recruiting, talent acquisition, people operations, HR leadership, startup operations, or a closely related people-focused role.
• Strong recruiting judgment, even if the exact number of years of experience differs.
• Ability to work hands-on while also creating scalable systems and processes.
• Solid understanding of full-cycle recruiting, candidate assessment, hiring manager partnership, and candidate experience.
• Practical people operations instincts, including onboarding, employee support, manager enablement, policies, documentation, and basic awareness of compliance.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to earn trust from executives, managers, employees, and candidates.
• Comfort operating in a remote, fast-moving, and constantly changing environment.
• Ability to create structure without adding unnecessary bureaucracy.
• High ownership, sound judgment, discretion, and reliable follow-through.

Preferred Background

• Experience building recruiting or people operations functions in an early-stage or high-growth company.
• Experience hiring for technical, infrastructure, AI, cloud, enterprise software, operations, finance, or go-to-market positions.
• Experience using or rolling out ATS, HRIS, onboarding, performance, documentation, and people analytics tools.
• Experience working closely with founders or senior leadership.
• Experience supporting distributed or remote teams.

The Kind of Person Who Will Thrive Here

• You are both strategic and hands-on.
• You know how to move quickly without reducing hiring standards.
• You care about both candidate experience and employee experience.
• You can build clear people processes in a fast-moving company.
• You are comfortable making decisions with incomplete information and shifting priorities.
• You communicate directly and handle confidential information professionally.
• You build trust quickly and consistently follow through.

Compensation and Benefits

• Base salary range: to be confirmed.
• Performance-based bonus may be available, subject to confirmation.
• Health insurance may be offered, subject to confirmation.
• Equity may be available, subject to confirmation.
• This is a remote role; location or time-zone expectations are yet to be confirmed.
• Travel expectations are yet to be confirmed.

How to Apply

If you are a practical people and talent leader who can help Argentum AI hire exceptional people, build useful people systems, and support a fast-growing remote team, the company would like to hear from you.