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Head of People

Build and lead the people function for a remote-first software company

Gradle is building Develocity, the context-engineering layer for AI-driven software delivery used by leading organizations like Netflix, Airbnb, and Spotify. As Head of People, you will establish and scale the people function to support a global, remote-first team. Your work will focus on talent acquisition, employee development, and organizational design to enable high-performing software teams.

Why This Role?

Direct impact on scaling a remote-first team at the center of AI-driven software delivery

Key Responsibilities

  • Establish and scale the people function for a global remote workforce
  • Lead talent acquisition and hiring strategy for technical and non-technical roles
  • Develop employee growth programs and performance management systems
  • Design organizational structure to support rapid scaling
  • Partner with leadership on culture and employee experience initiatives

Requirements

  • Proven experience building HR functions in scaling tech companies
  • Deep expertise in remote-first talent acquisition and management
  • Strong background in organizational design and employee development
  • Experience partnering with engineering and product leadership
  • Track record of creating high-performance cultures in distributed teams

Required Skills

team managementcommunicationstrategyleadershipHR strategytalent acquisitionorganizational developmentremote team managementemployee experience

Indonesia Context

Working Hours Overlap:
Flexible — work your own hours
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Keywords

Head of Peopleremote HRtech company scalingglobal talent acquisitionorganizational designemployee developmentremote-first cultureHR leadership
View Original Description from NoDesk

Original description from NoDesk

Who We Are AI is changing how software gets built. Code production is becoming a commodity. The focus is shifting from writing code to orchestrating, verifying, and governing change – and the toolchain is the new constraint. We're at the center of this shift. We build Develocity, the context-engineering layer for AI-driven software delivery used by some of the world's leading software organizations – Netflix, Airbnb, Spotify, SAP, major global banks, and hundreds more. Develocity helps software teams achieve delivery excellence through deep observability, build and test acceleration and efficiency, and AI-powered intelligence across the entire toolchain – for Gradle Build Tool, Apache Maven™, sbt, Bazel, npm, and Python, with support for additional build tools coming soon.

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Company
Gradle
Source
NoDesk
Job Type
full time
Location
Remote · Open worldwide
Category
Seniority
lead
PostedFresh
Jul 10, 2026

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