Head of People & Talent

About Us OpenFX is on a mission to move money as freely as data , unrestricted by time zones, banking hours, or legacy systems. We build the infrastructure that powers cross-border payments for institutions: programmatic FX, settlement, collections, and payouts through a single API. Less than 2.5 years after founding, we process $80B in annualized transaction volume. We are roughly 180 people across San Francisco, New York, Miami, London, Amsterdam, Dubai, Bangalore, and Singapore, with regulated entities and license applications spanning the US, UK, EU, UAE, and beyond. The team comes from J.P. Morgan, Goldman Sachs, Visa, Mastercard, Coinbase, Stripe, Rippling, PayPal, Affirm, and Kraken. We are backed by Accel, Atomico, Lightspeed, M13, NFX, and Northzone, amongst several other global tier-one investors. The Role You will build and lead the entire people function: talent acquisition and people operations, across every geography, from the infrastructure up. This is the senior-most people seat in the company. You report to the COO and work directly with the CEO on org design, executive hiring, workforce planning, and compensation philosophy. This is a builder role. There is a foundation, not a finished function. You will decide what the people function looks like at 300 and design the path to 1000, then build the team that runs it. What you inherit A People Ops and Talent team of 7 Greenhouse as the ATS, with structured interviewing process A Rippling deployment in flight as the core HR system A written culture document that the company actually uses in hiring and performance decisions A company-wide onboarding baseline being stood up now Roughly 50 hires planned across the company in the next two quarters What you will own The hiring engine. Recruiting infrastructure, structured interviews and scorecards, internal sourcing to cut agency dependence, and the operating cadence that fills priority roles without dropping the bar. Every hire must raise the standard of t