LangChain - People Programs and Total Rewards Architect

• 6-10+ Years of Building: You have scaled People programs or Total Rewards at a high-growth tech startup. • 6-10+ Years of Building: • Extreme Agency: You don't wait for a playbook; you write it. You are comfortable in the messy middle of hyper-growth and can navigate ambiguity with a technical mindset. • Extreme Agency: • AI Fluency: You aren’t just a user of AI; you are an enthusiast. You understand how to leverage agents, prompt engineering, and automation to do the work of a team of five. • AI Fluency: • Quantitative Rigor: You treat a cap table and a budget like a logic puzzle. You are a pro at compensation modeling, data visualization, and financial discipline. • Quantitative Rigor: • Product Mindset: You approach People programs with a "version 1.0 vs. version 2.0" mentality. You know when to ship a pragmatic solution and when to iterate for scale. • Product Mindset: • Global Mindset: You’ve built for distributed teams and understand the nuances of designing for a global workforce. • Global Mindset: • Radical Clarity: You can translate a complex Black-Scholes model or a tiered equity strategy into a Slack message that a new grad actually understands and values. • Radical Clarity: • Systems Thinking vs. Rigid Rules: You don't build processes for the sake of process. You understand how a change in compensation impacts recruiting velocity, which impacts burn rate, which impacts product delivery. • Systems Thinking vs. Rigid Rules: • High EQ + Low Ego: You handle some of the company’s most sensitive data with absolute discretion and act as a neutral, trusted advisor to both leadership and ICs. • High EQ + Low Ego: • Conflict as a Catalyst: You don’t shy away from the friction; you use data and empathy to drive to a fair resolution. • Conflict as a Catalyst: • How You Exemplify Our Operating Principles: • We don't just put these on the wall; they are the filters for how we build our People programs. • Build Something Great: You don’t default to standard HR. You design thoughtful, durable reward systems with a high bar for quality, aiming to make LangChain the most talent-dense company in AI. • Build Something Great: • Embrace Hot Takes: You bring informed, non-consensus opinions to the table. You aren’t afraid to kill best practices that don't work for us and propose innovative, AI-first alternatives. • Embrace Hot Takes: • Maximum Agency: You are a team of one who acts like a team of ten. You take ownership of ambiguous problems and build solutions from first principles without needing a playbook. • Maximum Agency: • Run to the Roar: You lean into the most complex scaling challenges, rather than avoiding them. • Run to the Roar: • Technical Builder: Experience with SQL, Python, or advanced automation tools (Claude Code, Cursor, or LangChain:) to bridge the gap between data and actionable insights. • Technical Builder: • Global Expansion Playbook: Experience designing and implementing localized Total Rewards programs across countries in APAC, EMEA, and LatAM. • Global Expansion Playbook: • M&A Experience: You’ve helped integrate teams or compensation structures during acquisitions. • Public Company Prep: An understanding of what “Enterprise Ready” looks like (SOX compliance, rigorous audit trails) and can bake that into our systems now so we don't have to rebuild them later. • Public Company Prep: