Head of Talent and People

Berkeley, California🌐 Remote💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-18 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead and grow Sardine's global Talent and People team, overseeing recruitment, people operations, and HR business partnering for a fast-growing agentic risk platform.

Role type

Senior IC Head of Talent and People (Player-Coach)

Builds

Scalable talent acquisition systems, people operations infrastructure, and HR business partnering frameworks

Domain

Fintech / Financial Crime Prevention / Risk Technology

Deliverable

Required skills

Team leadership, full-cycle recruiting, employer branding, headcount planning, employee relations, compensation banding, performance management, org design, compliance across jurisdictions

Preferred skills

Experience in high-growth tech startups, player-coach mindset, strong operating instincts, discretion and judgment

Technologies

HRIS, recruiting scorecards, OKRs

Responsibilities

Lead and manage a team of Recruiters and People Ops professionals; Partner directly with the CEO on leadership hires; Oversee employee lifecycle and compliance; Act as a trusted advisor to managers on org design and employee relations

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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About Sardine

Sardine is the leading agentic risk platform for fighting financial crime. Our integrated solution unifies data across risk teams to help organizations stop fraud in real time, prevent AI-driven attacks, and automate fraud and AML operations. Sardine’s platform is strengthened by one of the fastest-growing fraud consortiums in the market, spanning more than 6 billion profiled devices, 800 million consumers, and 3 million businesses worldwide. Leading companies including FIS, GoDaddy, Intuit, Edward Jones, ZoomInfo, and Checkout.com rely on Sardine to secure and grow trust in their products.