Global People Systems Lead

Role Summary

Global People Systems Lead for Recursion’s global HR technology ecosystem. This role owns HiBob configuration, workforce analytics, system integrations, compliance, and AI-enabled innovation across the People function, ensuring our People infrastructure is scalable and intelligent to support a rapidly evolving scientific and technical workforce across the US, UK, and Canada. This is a high-impact role for a systems thinker who blends hands-on technical execution with strategic workforce insight to enable scalable, insight-driven, compliant People technology aligned to our growth.

Responsibilities

• Serve as functional and technical owner of HiBob across Core HR, Compensation, Talent, and Workforce Planning, and technical owner of Greenhouse, PAVE, Bridge and other people technology tools
• Lead system enhancements, design, and vendor management
• Assist in driving tech stack optimization and scalable system architecture in partnership with IT and Finance
• Identify and implement AI and automation solutions that streamline workflows and enhance our manager and employee experiences
• Build intelligent systems that elevate decision-making and operational efficiency
• Translate workforce data into actionable insights that inform organizational design and capacity planning, while developing dashboards and advanced reporting
• Oversee integrations across HRIS, payroll, benefits, and enterprise systems, while maintaining data integrity, audit readiness, and global compliance standards

Qualifications

• 8+ years leading HRIS, People Analytics, and HR technology initiatives in scaling, multi-entity organizations
• Proven experience implementing AI-enabled people tools end-to-end, including vendor selection, business case development, data readiness, change management, and post-launch optimization
• Deep hands-on expertise in HiBob, including workflow configuration, permissions architecture, lifecycle automation, compensation cycles, reporting, and global system optimization
• Strong techno-functional knowledge across workforce planning, compensation, headcount forecasting, talent management, and org design, with the ability to translate People strategy into scalable systems
• Experience designing and managing integrations across HR tech stacks (ATS, payroll, equity, engagement, finance), including APIs, middleware, data mapping, and reconciliation
• Advanced reporting and data modeling skills, including executive dashboards, headcount/attrition analytics, compensation analysis, and workforce forecasting, with a strong focus on data integrity
• Experience with HR systems governance, including SOX (as applicable), GDPR/CCPA compliance, audit support, access management, and data quality standards
• Ability to operate strategically and tactically, owning multi-year HR systems roadmaps while remaining hands-on with configuration, testing, troubleshooting, and stakeholder enablement