Director, People Operations

About CHAOS Industries CHAOS Industries is redefining modern defense with a multi-product portfolio that gives the ultimate advantage—domain dominance. CHAOS Industries’ products are powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN™), empowering warfighters, commercial air operators, and border protection teams to act faster, adapt rapidly, and stay ahead of evolving threats.

CHAOS Industries

Redefining modern defense.

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chaosinc.com

201-500 employees

Defense and Space Manufacturing

Los Angeles, CA

2022

Privately Held

20k LinkedIn followers

Raised $1B

• Lead, hire, develop, and manage the People Operations team, including the
• Generalists and Operators.
• Own the People Operations policy library end to end: identify where policy is
• needed, oversee and draft it, and shepherd it through Legal and Compliance
• review, rollout, and revision.
• Own the HR systems and vendor roadmap (Rippling, Sparrow, Culture Amp,
• Confluence, JIRA, and future tools), including vendor selection, contract
• negotiation/renewal, and integrations.
• Design and continuously improve how the business engages with People
• Operations — intake processes, response-time standards, and self-service
• resources like Confluence — so HR is easy to work with at every level.
• Own benefits program design and broker/vendor strategy, in partnership with
• Finance and leadership.
• Own & oversight of performance and compensation cycle process design,
• timelines, tooling
• Own the compliance training curriculum and audit standards, in partnership
• with Legal and InfoSec.
• Build a culture of quality and consistency across the team through
• documentation standards and feedback loops.
• Identify and prioritize opportunities to automate and streamline HR processes
• onboarding, offboarding, leaves, and benefits administration and scale with
• the company.
• Own People Operations reporting and metrics in partnership with Data &
• Insights teams. Translate team-level data into insights and recommendations
• for senior leadership.
• Represent People Operations in cross-functional planning with Legal, Finance,
• IT, and Security.
• Work full-time onsite out of our office in Los Angeles (Hawthorne),
• California.

Required

• 10+ years of progressive HR experience, including 3+ years directly managing
• HR generalists, ideally in a high-growth or startup setting.
• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience required.
• Demonstrated experience owning HR policy development end to end, including
• partnership with Legal/Compliance.
• Experience designing or scaling an HR service-delivery model — intake
• processes, SLAs, self-service resources — in a growing organization.
• Deep knowledge of U.S. employment law (especially California; multi-state
• required).
• Experience owning HRIS strategy and vendor management (Rippling or comparable
• platforms).
• Track record leading complex employee relations investigations,
• restructurings, or reductions in force at an executive-stakeholder level.
• Proven ability to hire, develop, and manage HR generalist/business partner
• teams.
• Strong executive presence; able to advise senior leadership and the executive
• team on sensitive, high-stakes matters.
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable owning HR metrics and reporting to
• leadership.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen. This position requires access to information and
• systems subject to U.S. export control and government contract regulations

Preferred

• SPHR or SHRM-SCP certification.
• Experience in defense, aerospace, or another regulated, security-conscious
• industry.
• Experience building a People Operations function from the ground up inside a
• scaling startup.
• Experience governing Confluence or a similar knowledge-management system at
• scale.
• Experience partnering with Legal/InfoSec on compliance training program
• design.
• Health Benefits: Medical, dental, and vision benefits 100% paid for by the
• company
• Additional benefits: 401k (+ 50% company match up to 6% of pay), FSA, HSA,
• life insurance, and more
• Our Perks: Free daily lunch, ‘No meeting Fridays’, unlimited PTO, casual
• dress code
• Compensation Components: Competitive base salaries, generous pre-IPO stock
• option grants, relocation assistance, and (coming soon!) annual bonuses
• Team Growth: 350 employees and counting across 5 global offices

• The stated compensation range reflects only the targeted base compensation range
• and excludes additional earnings such as bonus, equity, and benefits. If your
• compensation requirements fall outside of the range, we still encourage you to
• apply. The salary range for this role is an estimate based on a range of
• compensation factors, inclusive of base salary only. Actual salary offer may
• vary based on (but not limited to) work experience, education and/or training,
• critical skills, and/or business considerations.