About the Role
As the HR Lead, you will own the full people operations function, including onboarding, career development, performance, compliance, and culture. Your mandate is to ensure Vendelux is a company people want to stay at, working directly with leadership on strategic initiatives while serving as a trusted day-to-day resource for employees.
Responsibilities
- Design and deliver a best-in-class onboarding experience.
- Build and manage performance review cycles, feedback frameworks, and career development programs.
- Serve as the primary resource for employee relations, coaching managers, mediating conflict, and handling sensitive matters.
- Administer and continuously improve compensation, benefits, and equity programs, including leading benchmarking.
- Develop and maintain HR policies, the employee handbook, and compliance documentation.
- Partner with leadership on workforce planning, org design, and headcount decisions.
- Track and report on people metrics, surfacing actionable insights to leadership.
- Own the HRIS and people tech stack, evaluating and implementing new tooling.
- Manage offboarding processes, conduct exit interviews, and translate findings into retention improvements.
Requirements
- 5+ years in an HR Generalist or HRBP role.
- Experience at a high-growth B2B SaaS or tech startup.
- Early or solo HR hire experience strongly preferred.
- Deep knowledge of employment law and HR compliance across multiple states (NY required).
- Proven ability to build HR programs and policies from scratch.
- Excellent judgment in sensitive employee relations situations.
- Data-fluent: comfortable tracking people metrics and presenting insights clearly to leadership.
- Exceptional communicator: able to write clear policy, facilitate hard conversations, and influence at the C-suite level.
- High-ownership mindset: takes initiative on both strategic and administrative tasks.
Skills
- Onboarding
- Engagement
- Performance management
- Career development
- HR compliance
- Policy development
- Employee relations
- Compensation strategy
- Benefits administration
- Equity programs
- Workforce planning
- Organizational design
- HRIS management
- People analytics
- Communication
- Influencing
Location
- New York
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree in HR, Business, Psychology, or related field
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, or PHR a plus
Benefits
- Benefits programs
About the Company
- Vendelux is transforming how companies discover, evaluate, and maximize the impact of events.
- Our AI-powered platform delivers proprietary insights across 250,000+ events.
- Founded in 2021, Vendelux is a Series A SaaS company backed by leading investors including FirstMark, with a recent $14M round.
- Our team brings experience from companies like Bain, ZoomInfo, Airbnb, FanDuel, Shutterstock, Compass and more.
Equal Opportunity
- Vendelux is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.
- We are committed to equal opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, gender, gender identity, parental or pregnancy status, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, or veteran status.
