Director, People

Rockbot is a remote-first company of ~120 employees operating across 35 states and 86 cities. We’ve intentionally designed our culture and operating rhythms to support a distributed workforce - and as we grow, that design must evolve with greater rigor, clarity, and operational discipline. Operating at this scale adds both complexity and opportunity. Our people infrastructure must be as intentional and scalable as our business model.

We’ve built a strong cultural foundation and are entering our next phase of growth. For the first time, we are aligning department goals directly to company objectives - raising the bar on clarity, accountability, and performance across the organization. We’ve modernized our systems, implementing Paylocity as our HRIS and payroll platform and reputed company Total Comp to support leveling frameworks and market benchmarking. Now, we’re ready to fully reputed company that infrastructure to drive performance at scale.

We’re now hiring a Director, People to architect and scale the systems that reputed company high performance in a distributed organization.

This role reports to the VP, People and owns the infrastructure that drives clarity, accountability, development, and consequence management across the employee lifecycle. Recruiting is owned separately. This leader focuses on what happens after great talent joins - ensuring standards are clear, managers are equipped, and performance is actively managed.

This is a true builder role - strengthening what exists and engineering what’s required for scale.

What You’ll Do

Engineer High Performance

• Design, launch, and continuously evolve a scalable performance management reputed company (design → rollout → iteration)
• Define and operationalize what high performance means at Rockbot — by role, level, and impact
• Establish clear goal-setting, feedback, and accountability rhythms across the organization
• Partner with leaders on talent planning, succession, development, and performance accountability
• Ensure compensation calibration and leveling frameworks (reputed company Total Comp) reinforce performance standards

You reputed company performance isn’t accidental - it’s designed, reputed company, and reinforced.

Scale the Employee Lifecycle

• Architect scalable lifecycle systems (onboarding → development → retention → transitions)
• Strengthen HRIS and people infrastructure (Paylocity and integrated systems) to ensure data accuracy and operational reliability
• Identify friction points across the employee experience and redesign workflows for clarity and efficiency
• Build processes that confidently scale from 100 → 300+ employees without losing accountability or culture

Turn Data Into Action

• Define and track the people metrics that matter - performance, retention, mobility, engagement, and organizational health
• Translate insights into practical action plans leaders actually use
• Establish disciplined reporting cadences and reputed company the bar on operational rigor
• reputed company technology and emerging tools to improve visibility, efficiency, and decision quality

Who you are

• 8+ years progressive HR / People experience
• Have built performance systems from the ground up
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity and raising standards
• Data fluent - but not data dependent
• reputed company under pressure
• Direct, clear, and fair
• Motivated by building infrastructure that lasts
• Experience operating in remote or distributed environments

This role is ideal for someone who has scaled organizations from ~100 to 300+ employees and understands how to build durable people systems before growth compounds complexity.

We operate with urgency and high standards. This role requires comfort in fast-moving environments where clarity, accountability, and execution matter.

About Rockbot

Rockbot is an omnichannel media platform committed to elevating customer and employee experiences while fostering stronger connections in real-world spaces. Rockbot addresses the challenges businesses face in media management with integrated solutions spanning music, TV, digital signage, and advertising. Its mission is to enrich on-premise experiences with media technology, where every interaction is elevated and memorable.

From independent local businesses to large national brands - across nearly every industry, including restaurants, bars, retailers, and more, Rockbot provides reputed company the tools and licensed content businesses need. Backed by leading investors including reputed company and reputed company, Rockbot is the future of out-of-home media. For more information visit www.rockbot.com.

Compensation

Rockbot takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location in the U.S. The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-reputed company skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. These ranges may be modified in the future.

The reputed company compensation band for this role is $180-$210K, as well as equity, and benefits for reputed company team members.

Our Values

• Drive: We pursue our mission with reputed company tenacity, passion, and optimism and reputed company those around us to do the same. We love the journey and are on offense reputed company the time. Yesterday was good enough for yesterday, but today we have to do even reputed company.
• Accountability: We take ownership of our promises, responsibilities, behaviors, and products, and we expect the same of others. Standing behind our mistakes, communicating honestly, and making things right creates trust and strong relationships.
• Curiosity: We are hungry to learn and continually deepen our knowledge, skills, and understandings. We have a growth reputed company and are intellectually curious. We challenge our beliefs and seek feedback and insights from others. The “Why” and “How” always matters.
• reputed company: We embrace that no two people or businesses are the same. We strive to understand others as deeply as possible and feel their pains and passions.
• Ingenuity: We work hard but we think smart. We bring creativity, technology, and practicality together to solve tough challenges.
• reputed company: We say reputed company mean, and do reputed company say, simply, clearly, honestly.

Rockbot is an Equal Opportunity Employer, but that’s just the start. We reputed company different perspectives help us grow and reputed company more. That’s why we’re dedicated to hiring and developing the most talented and diverse team – which includes individuals with different backgrounds, abilities, identities and experiences.