Role Description As the Head of People Systems and Contractor Operations you will be responsible for leading the development of people systems and strategies that enable Hadley Designs to scale and grow. In this role, you will partner with leadership to create the talent systems required to attract, develop, and retain a high-performing workforce. Your focus will be on building scalable, high-performance systems that align with the company’s growth objectives and help foster a positive organizational culture. This position offers a unique opportunity to shape how we build and nurture our team, enabling both the company and our people to succeed. You will play an integral role in supporting our mission by ensuring that Hadley Designs has the right talent and organizational structure to achieve long-term success. Key Responsibilities - People Systems Leadership: Design and implement systems for attracting, engaging, onboarding, and retaining talent, aligned with the company’s growth objectives. - Organizational Design and Capacity Planning: Collaborate with leadership to ensure that the organizational structure and workforce planning meet the evolving needs of the business. - Performance and Development Frameworks: Establish performance expectations, evaluation frameworks, and development pathways that drive accountability and growth across the organization. - Talent Experience and Retention: Build a consistent and professional experience for talent that reinforces employee engagement, satisfaction, and retention. - Workforce Insights and Reporting: Provide insights and data-driven recommendations to leadership to guide decision-making and improve workforce effectiveness. - External Partnerships: Partner with external service providers to enhance and support people operations as necessary. How Success Is Measured - Successful implementation of people systems that directly support the business’s ability to scale. - Strong employee retention rates, with high performance and engagement. - Improved leadership confidence in people systems, talent readiness, and organizational alignment. - Predictable, scalable people operations that contribute to the company’s growth and success. Qualifications - 5+ years of experience in People Operations, HR leadership, or a related field, ideally in a fast-growing environment. - Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business, or a related field. - Proven ability to build scalable systems that attract, develop, and retain talent. - Strong experience working with distributed and remote teams. - A passion for people development, with the ability to design and implement programs that foster growth, learning, and employee satisfaction. - Excellent communication and relationship-building skills at all levels of the organization. - A growth mindset and a collaborative approach to solving problems. - Experience using data to drive decisions and measure success. Benefits - Remote-first work environment - Paid time off and holidays - Access to learning resources and professional development - Free access to Hadley Designs products - Regular interaction with leadership, including the CEO and CMO - Stability from a decade as a family-founded, mission-driven brand

• Own the employee lifecycle end-to-end across multiple jurisdictions • Partner with Finance and payroll providers for compliance • Lead benefits programs globally • Manage immigration and global mobility processes • Enhance People team helpdesk through automation • Coordinate logistics for annual retreats and team workations • Shape Townhall content in partnership with leadership • Oversee People tech stack and compliance across jurisdictions

• System Administration: Maintain our core HR systems (e.g., HRIS, performance platforms, onboarding tools, etc.). • Data Integrity & Reporting: Own the accuracy, confidentiality, and integrity of employee data. • Automation & Workflow Optimization: Identify manual processes and proactively build scalable solutions using automation and integrations across tools. Translate complex business needs into efficient, repeatable processes. • Employee Lifecycle Administration: Process key employment changes — including new hires, terminations, promotions, transfers, etc — ensuring timely and accurate updates across People systems and cross-functional stakeholders. • US Immigration Administration: Serve as the day-to-day owner of US visa processes, including H-1B transfers, PERM applications, and other employment-based immigration filings — partnering closely with external and internal counsel and cross-functional stakeholders to ensure timely, compliant execution. • Policy & Documentation Ownership: Maintain and update People policies, process documentation, and system configurations to ensure accuracy and accessibility. Serve as a day-to-day resource for People systems questions and troubleshooting across our HR tech stack. • Compliance & Audits: Ensure system configurations and data meet compliance requirements (e.g., I-9s, security and compensation audits, employment verifications). Lead audit data pulls and documentation support. • Teammate Experience: Serve as a resource to employees through our ticketing system — answering questions and resolving issues related to HR systems, data updates, and process flows with clarity and care.

Title: People Partner Location: San Francisco Job Description: About Black Forest Labs We're the team behind Latent Diffusion, Stable Diffusion, and FLUX—foundational technologies that changed how the world creates images and video. We’re creating the generative models that power how people make images and video—tools used by millions of creators, developers, and businesses worldwide. Our FLUX models are among the most advanced in the world, and we're just getting started. Headquartered in Freiburg, Germany with a growing presence in San Francisco, we're scaling fast while staying true to what makes us different: research excellence, open science, and building technology that expands human creativity. Why This Role This is a rare opportunity to be the first dedicated People Partner in the region. Two talent colleagues and a workplace manager are already on the ground, but no one yet owns the People agenda. That leaves real scope to build the processes, culture touchpoints, leadership capability, and operational foundation a scaling NA team needs. You'll split your time roughly 60% People Partnering / 40% People Operations, with the balance shifting as the team grows. Reporting to the Head of People (Freiburg), you'll work closely with the broader People team in Europe, acting as the bridge that keeps our US team well-supported in timezone. This role suits someone with strong HRBP experience who can hold a room with senior leaders, but isn't too precious to roll up their sleeves on the ops side when it matters. Deep tech experience is essential; you'll be supporting engineers, researchers, and commercial teams, and you need to understand how they think. What You'll Work On People Partnering - Serve as the primary People Partner for NA-based leaders and employees, providing in-timezone support across performance, team effectiveness, and organisational design. - Coach and develop managers across the NA org, building leadership capability as the team scales beyond its current ~40. - Partner with senior leaders on workforce planning and headcount decisions, feeding into BFL's global people strategy. - Lead employee relations matters in the US with sound judgement and a solid grasp of relevant employment law. - Act as the regional voice in broader People team conversations, surfacing NA-specific insights, risks, and opportunities to the global team. People Operations - Own the smooth running of core People Ops processes for NA: employee lifecycle events, onboarding, offboarding, compliance, and HRIS hygiene. - Ensure US employment practices are compliant across every state where BFL operates, partnering with Legal where needed. - Collaborate with People Ops colleagues in Europe to maintain consistent global standards while adapting processes for the US context. - Use data and tooling to keep NA People Ops running cleanly and at scale — spot inefficiencies and fix them. - Be the person on the ground when something needs sorting fast and Europe is hours ahead. What We're Looking For - 6+ years of People/HR experience, with meaningful time in a Business Partnering or People Partner role. - Must have worked in tech; deep tech (AI, infrastructure, developer tooling, fintech, or similar) strongly preferred. - Experience working within or alongside a European-headquartered company — you understand the cultural nuances and time zone dynamics. - Solid command of US employment law; you know when to act and when to escalate to counsel. - Comfortable operating across both strategic partnering and hands-on People Ops — the hybrid nature of the role energises you. - Strong coaching instincts and the credibility to influence VP-level stakeholders. - A data-informed approach — you use people metrics to tell stories and drive decisions. While not required, it’s an added plus if you also have: - Experience as the first or only People Partner in a region, or in an early-stage/scaling environment. - Experience building or improving people processes from scratch. How We Work Together We’re a distributed team with real offices that people actually use. Depending on your role, you’ll either join us in Freiburg or SF at least 2 days a week (or one full week every other week), or work remotely with a monthly in-person week to stay connected. We’ll cover reasonable travel costs to make this possible. We think in-person time matters, and we’ve structured things to make it accessible to all. We’ll discuss what this will look like for the role during our interview process. Everything we do is grounded in four values: - Obsessed. We are a frontier research lab. The science has to be right, the understanding deep, the product beautiful. - Low Ego. The work speaks. The best idea wins, no matter who said it. Credit is shared. Nobody is above any task. - Bold. We take the ambitious bet. We ship, we do not wait for conditions to be perfect. - Kind. People over politics. We treat each other with genuine warmth. Agency without empathy creates chaos. If this sounds like work you’d enjoy, we’d love to hear from you. Base Annual Salary: $145,000- $165,000 + Equity