People Leadership — CHRO, VP HR, and Head of Talent
More than 5,000 executive sources scanned daily — every senior HR and people role surfaced from CHRO down to Director, across technology, healthcare, and consulting.
Tier breakdown
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Founder36
C-Suite230
VP35
Sr Director154
DirectorWhat this category covers
The Human Resources role type covers the full people leadership stack — not just CHRO. It spans Chief People Officer, CHRO, EVP People, SVP People, VP People, VP HR, VP Talent, Head of People, Senior Director People, and Director HR / Director People Operations seats, all classified at the executive tier.
The "People" rebrand of HR matters. At growth-stage technology companies, "Head of People" or "Chief People Officer" is the dominant title — and the seat carries the same exec scope as a CHRO at a Fortune 500 peer. The classifier treats CPO (people), CHRO, Head of People, and EVP People as the same tier signal regardless of which prefix the company prefers.
What falls outside: HR Business Partner (an IC role despite the prefix), HR Manager, HR Generalist, Talent Acquisition Coordinator, People Operations Specialist, and Compensation Analyst. The executive gate filters these before any role reaches your inbox.
Sample Jobs (10 of 462)
| Title & Company | Location |
|---|---|
| Director, Human Resources, IS-0201-14 Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory The position involves overseeing HR programs, ensuring compliance, leading modernization efforts, and managing HR staff. It requires expertise in HR principles, federal classification standards, and immigration law. VP | Cambridge, MA Onsite |
| HR Director ... private equity-backed consumer products and e-commerce company Director of Human Resources for a private equity-backed consumer products and e-commerce company. Responsible for building and leading the HR function through growth and transformation. Director | Edina & Sauk Rapids, MN Hybrid |
| Head of People Operations & Tech n8n The role involves owning and rebuilding the operating system behind n8n's People function, including hygiene, analytics, systems, and automation. The position is remote and involves working with HRIS platforms and driving process automation. VP | Remote Remote |
| Head of Recruiting Novo Lead recruiting efforts across North America for various departments at Novo, utilizing AI-based recruiting tools. VP | New York, NY Hybrid |
| Sr. Director, Executive Recruiting Pfizer Leads Pfizer’s global executive recruiting strategy for VP-and-above roles. Oversees executive searches, talent mapping, candidate assessment, and partnerships with executive search firms. Sr Director | New York City, NY, USA Hybrid |
| Director of HR Operations ... Solomon Page Seeking an experienced Director of HR Operations for a client in the manufacturing and consumer products industry. Responsible for strategic and operational leadership across HR processes, employee relations, compliance, and total rewards. Director | Austin, TX Hybrid |
| Director of HR Liminal Director of HR responsible for operational and strategic HR functions, partnering with executive leadership, and building HR infrastructure for growth. Director | New York City or the Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill area Hybrid |
| Director, Learning & Development Ursa Major The Director of Learning & Development will build and lead strategies, programs, and capabilities to develop Ursa Major’s talent and leaders. This role involves partnering with the Leadership Team and People Operations to establish a learning culture that supports business growth and strengthens organizational capability. VP | Berthoud, Colorado Onsite |
| Director, HR Services Procurement, Americas Johnson & Johnson This role leads the HR Services Procurement category across the Americas, managing approximately $1 billion in enterprise spend, developing procurement strategies, and leading regional teams. Director | Bogotá Distrito Capital / Colombia Hybrid |
| Head of Talent Acquisition (6-month contract) CarbonChain The Head of Talent Acquisition will assume full ownership of the talent acquisition function during a critical period of growth, focusing on senior engineering and product hires. VP | London, UK Hybrid |
How classification gets to this category
People-leadership classification follows the same multi-stage pipeline as every other role type, with HR-specific signals at three stages:
- Title recognition. "CHRO," "Chief People Officer," "VP People," "VP HR," "Head of People," and "Director of People Operations" are recognized directly. The lookup table reconciles the CHRO/CPO(people)/Head-of-People variants so all three resolve to the same role-type signal.
- Compensation threshold. $200K+ base is the exec-tier floor for this role type. Roles below this threshold in unambiguous People titles are flagged for manual review rather than auto-classified.
- JD signals for ambiguous cases. GPT reads the job description for org-wide vs. business-unit scope, headcount of the HR/People org reporting in, exec-team membership, and board exposure. A CHRO with a seat at the executive committee and direct CEO reporting carries a different tier signal than a "VP People" reporting into the CHRO. See the AI Classification page for the full signal hierarchy.
The classifier also has a negative filter: "HR Business Partner," "Senior HRBP," "HR Manager," "Talent Acquisition Manager," and "People Operations Manager" (sub-Director) are explicitly blocked from the executive gate.
How matching works for your search
Matching on CHRO/People is conjunctive. Every dimension you add narrows the result set rather than expanding it.
Example: select CHRO/People + Technology and your inbox shows People executive roles at SaaS and tech companies only — not every CHRO role on the platform, and not every Technology role regardless of function. You get the intersection.
Tier filtering works on top. If you want only VP-tier and above People roles — filtering out Director-tier for now — the seniority-tier setting does that cleanly. Or restrict to CXO-tier only to see pure CHRO and Chief People Officer seats. Each filter layer multiplies precision without requiring you to manually scan for noise.
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