HR Lead
About Beam
Beam is a tech start-up revolutionizing business operations with AI. Our AI Agents empower organizations by automating repetitive tasks, boosting productivity in seconds. With seamless integration into business applications, our agents provide support where teams need it most. Our mission? To transform business practices, increase efficiency, improve competitiveness, and scale operations globally.
About the Role
As the HR Lead at Beam, you’ll own and drive our People & Culture function, leading recruitment, onboarding, and employee engagement while ensuring compliance, security training, and seamless HR operations. This hands-on role requires both strategic vision and execution—hiring top talent, optimizing processes, and fostering a strong company culture.
In this fast-paced, dynamic environment, no two days are the same. We’re looking for someone who thrives on pressure and challenges, takes initiative, and is eager to build scalable HR practices that fuel our rapid growth. If that sounds like you, let’s talk! 🚀
Responsibilities
This role puts you at the helm of People & Culture, driving hiring, engagement, operations, and compliance. Your key responsibilities will include:
Talent Acquisition & Recruitment: Lead end-to-end recruitment hiring processes, partnering with hiring managers to define role requirements, craft job descriptions, and create structured hiring pipelines. Manage job postings, headhunt top talent, conduct interviews, and implement standardized evaluation processes.
Candidate Experience & Employer Branding: Ensure a seamless candidate journey with timely, professional communication. Develop employer branding strategies to position Beam as a top-tier workplace and optimize application screening for efficiency.
Offer Management & Compensation: Oversee salary negotiations, structure competitive compensation packages, and manage equity, benefits, and incentive discussions with senior leadership.
Onboarding & New Hire Integration: Own the onboarding experience from offer acceptance to first-day readiness. Manage employment contracts, NDAs, laptop provisioning, and company swag distribution. Conduct onboarding sessions, facilitate team introductions, and ensure a smooth transition into the company culture.
Employee Engagement & Culture: Drive engagement through team-building activities, knowledge-sharing sessions, and culture-building initiatives. Organize events, retreats, and interactive experiences that foster collaboration and team bonding.
HR Operations & Compliance: Track hiring metrics, refine recruitment strategies, and implement HR best practices to support workforce planning. Maintain structured documentation for audits and compliance.
Information Security & Compliance: Manage employee security awareness training, ensuring compliance with SOC 2/GDPR policies. Oversee onboarding security training, policy acknowledgments, and tracking of completion milestones.
Background Verification & Compliance: Lead the verification process, ensuring thorough checks on academic credentials, government IDs, and professional references. Maintain secure and organized records for audit readiness.
Information Security Audits: Ensure HR compliance for SOC 2 audits by maintaining accurate hiring, onboarding, and security training documentation. Coordinate with IT and legal teams for seamless audit processes.
HR Systems & Process Optimization: Oversee access control, maintain an up-to-date company org chart, track contractor time management, and improve internal HR workflows to drive efficiency and transparency.
Requirements
Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Organizational Psychology, or a related field. A Master’s degree or HR certification (e.g., SHRM-CP, PHR) is a plus.
Minimum 5+ years of HR experience, with at least 2 years in a senior HR generalist role within a fast-paced startup or tech-driven environment.
Extensive experience managing high-volume recruitment and interviews across tech and non-tech roles, ensuring only top-tier candidates move through the hiring pipeline.
Proven expertise in headhunting and proactive talent sourcing using LinkedIn Recruiter, Boolean search, talent mapping, and other sourcing strategies.
Strong proficiency in HRIS and ATS platforms (e.g., Lever, Greenhouse, Workable) for streamlining hiring workflows, candidate tracking, and recruitment analytics.
End-to-end recruitment management, including structured hiring pipelines, scorecard-driven evaluations, and employer branding to attract high-caliber talent.
Experience designing and executing structured onboarding programs, ensuring seamless new-hire integration and long-term engagement.
In-depth knowledge of SOC 2, GDPR, and other compliance frameworks, with hands-on experience in security training, policy enforcement, and audit preparation.
Strong understanding of compensation strategies in the tech industry, including market benchmarking, salary negotiations, and total rewards structuring.
Passion for fostering a high-performance, collaborative workplace culture, with expertise in employee engagement and team-building initiatives.
Data-driven mindset with the ability to track hiring metrics, optimize HR processes, and drive continuous improvements.
Exceptional communication, stakeholder management, and leadership skills, with a strategic, proactive approach to HR and talent acquisition.
Why Beam?
At Beam, we foster a culture of ownership and growth, giving you the freedom to take charge of your work and make a meaningful impact on the future of AI. As part of a highly collaborative, fast-paced startup, you’ll have the opportunity to work at the forefront of AI innovation, designing and building solutions that address real-world business challenges.
We offer more than just a job. Here, you’ll find:
Ownership and autonomy: You’ll have the opportunity to own the full lifecycle of projects, from conception to execution, and see your work directly impact businesses worldwide.
Personal and professional growth: We encourage continuous learning and innovation. Whether you're advancing in your technical expertise, growing your leadership skills, or shaping the next generation of AI solutions, your growth is our priority.
Being at the cutting edge: You’ll be working with the latest AI technologies, driving innovation in generative AI and natural language processing.
Competitive benefits and stock options: We offer a competitive salary, stock options, and comprehensive benefits to ensure you're not only rewarded today but also invested in the future of the company.
Collaborative Culture: You’ll work alongside brilliant minds in an agile, collaborative, and supportive startup environment, where your ideas can truly make a difference.
If you are passionate about leveraging AI to drive innovation and thrive in a collaborative, fast-paced environment, we’d love to hear from you. Join us in shaping the future of AI-powered solutions!
