Director, , Management

Deepgram is the leading platform underpinning the emerging trillion-dollar Voice AI economy, providing real-time APIs for speech-to-text (STT), text-to-speech (TTS), and building production-grade voice agents e than 200,000 developers and 1,300+ organizations build voice offerings that are ‘Powered by Deepgram’, including Twilio, Cloudflare, Sierra, Decagon, Vapi, Daily, Cresta, Granola, and Jack in the Box. Deepgram’s voice-native foundation models are accessed through cloud APIs or as self-hosted and on-premises software, with unmatched accuracy, low latency, and cost efficiency.

Backed by a recent Series C led by leading global investors and strategic partners, Deepgram has processed over 50,000 years of audio and transcribed more than 1 trillion words. There is no organization in the world that understands voice better than Deepgram.

At Deepgram, we expect an AI-first mindset—AI use and comfort aren’t optional, they’re core to how we operate, innovate, and measure performance.

Every team member who works at Deepgram is expected to actively use and experiment with advanced AI tools, and even build your own into your everyday work. We measure how effectively AI is applied to deliver results, and consistent, creative use of the latest AI capabilities is key to success here. Candidates should be comfortable adopting new models and modes quickly, integrating AI into their workflows, and continuously pushing the boundaries of what these technologies can do.

Additionally, we move at the pace of AI. Change is rapid, and you can expect your day-to-day work to evolve just as quickly. This may not be the right role if you’re not excited to experiment, adapt, think on your feet, and learn constantly, or if you’re seeking something highly prescriptive with a traditional 9-to-5.

This is a role that requires both strategic thinking and operational depth. You'll need to understand the why behind the people agenda, shape how it gets executed, and manage a team that delivers it. You're not just translating instructions, you're bringing judgment, perspective, and initiative to a broad functional remit that spans the full employee lifecycle.

At the same time, you run the tactical layer. You manage the People Ops Management and the HRBP teams, hold the bar on execution, and make sure each function is operating cleanly and 's a lean team today, and part of your job is helping us figure out where and when to grow it by shaping what the entire People function should look like as Deepgram scales, and building out the team to match.

This is a remote first role, with some travel. The overall Deepgram team is distributed across multiple time zones and countries, so experience and comfort operating asynchronously and making a distributed team feel connected and well-run is crucial.

• Team leadership — directly managing the People Ops Manager and HRBP team. You run 1:1s, set priorities, give real feedback, develop each person's capability, and hold the bar. The team's output is your output.

• Execution of the people roadmap — You own the plan that gets it done: scoping the work, sequencing it, assigning it, and making sure it ships. Nothing stalls because someone didn't know what to do next.

• HRBP function quality — you're responsible for the caliber of partnership the HRBPs deliver to the business. That means coaching them on complex employee situations, reviewing their work, and making sure they're operating as true business partners and not just HR administrators.

• People Ops function oversight — partnering closely with the People Ops Manager to ensure the operational backbone (HRIS, lifecycle, compliance, benefits) is running cleanly and improving…