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People Operations Director

Atoms · San Francisco, CA · On-site

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About Atoms

Backed by Initial Capital.

About the role

This role can be based in our San Francisco office locations. As a company driven by innovation and continuous change, close collaboration is essential. We’re constantly reimagining our industry, creating new products, and refining our processes, and we do our best work together. That’s why all of our office-based teams work onsite, five days a week. The base salary range for this role is $185,000 – $230,000 per year.

What they're looking for

  • You bring 8+ years of People Operations experience, including leadership of core People Operations and a shared services or HR operations delivery team
  • You have operated in a complex organization supporting frontline, corporate, and executive populations across multiple locations, entities, or countries
  • Your experience spans both worlds: scaled, mature operations within a large organization and scrappy, high-growth environments where processes are still being built
  • You bring depth in HRIS—Workday preferred—automation, and building efficient, metrics-driven operations
  • You have led offshore or shared services delivery teams. Experience with captive offshore teams and payroll operations are strong pluses
  • You are comfortable staying hands-on while leading and developing a team, and you thrive in a fast-paced, entrepreneurial environment
More about this role

Atoms is building the machines that power the next era of progress.

Over the last decade, software has transformed the digital world. But the physical world, where food is made, minerals are mined, goods are moved, and industries are run, remains far less intelligent, far less efficient, and far more constrained. We’re changing that.

Atoms builds Physical AI — real-world robots for the industries that move civilization forward, starting with food, mining, and transport. Our systems are designed to understand, predict, and control the real world with precision, turning complex physical operations into something more reliable, more scalable, and more productive.

This work requires more than robotics. It requires deep integration across hardware, software, AI, operations, manufacturing, and real estate. We don’t just build machines in a lab. We deploy them into real environments, operate them, learn from them, and improve them until they work at scale.

We are roboticists, engineers, operators, and builders. We believe the next great technology companies will not only transform information, but the physical systems that shape everyday life.

If you want to work on hard problems with...

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