# Vice President, People & Talent at Armada

- Company: Armada
- What the company does: Armada’s platform combines connectivity, compute, and real-world AI to solve your toughest challenges right where your data is generated. Backed by Felicis and Lux.
- Company website: https://www.armada.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: San Francisco, California Office (HQ)
- Work setup: On-site
- Posted: 2026-09-11
- Apply by: 2026-10-26
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/armada/jobs/5422704008
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/armada-vice-president-people-and-talent/

## About the role

Armada is hiring a Vice President, People and Talent to own the full People stack and build the infrastructure a globally distributed company needs to scale. This is end-to-end ownership: Talent Acquisition, Total Rewards, People Operations, and Compliance, with real depth expected in global mobility, entity and employer-of-record management, and compensation design.

## What they're looking for

- Own global recruiting strategy across technical and non-technical functions, and stay close enough to the work to personally run a critical search if needed
- Implement structured hiring processes that raise talent density and hold hiring managers accountable
- Move time-to-hire and quality-of-hire against defined baselines
- Partner with Finance to align headcount planning, workforce modeling, and geographic expansion with budget forecasting
- Own compensation philosophy and band architecture, mapped to Armada levels and defensible against a named benchmarking source
- Own equity strategy at the pre-IPO stage: new hire grants, refresh and evergreen programs, 409A cadence, and the exception process

Tags: G&A - People