# Director, People Operations at Chaos

- Company: Chaos
- What the company does: CHAOS Industries builds a multi-product portfolio powered by Coherent Distributed Networks (CDN TM), giving military, commercial, and border teams the ultimate advantage: domain dominance. Backed by Accel and NEA.
- Company website: https://chaosinc.com/
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Principal and up
- Location: El Segundo, California, United States
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $172K to $220K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-02
- Apply by: 2026-10-17
- Apply: https://job-boards.greenhouse.io/chaosindustries/jobs/5229046007
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/chaos-director-people-operations/

## About the role

We’re looking for a strategic, experienced Director of People Operations to lead and scale our People Operations function as we continue our rapid growth. This role owns the strategy, systems, and policy foundation behind onboarding, HR technology, benefits, employee relations, and our internal HR knowledge base — and leads the Generalist Manager and Senior Generalist roles who own day-to-day execution across the business.

## What they're looking for

- 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)

Tags: Business Operations