Founding Head of Talent & Culture at Laminar
- Location
- Boston, United States
- Compensation
- $250k-$300k + Equity
Join Laminar as the Founding Head of Talent & Culture to scale a world-class Physical AI team from 50 to 200 people. Working directly with the CEO, you’ll own the hiring engine and culture for a company building self-driving factories for global giants like Coca-Cola and Unilever.
This isn't a standard HR role; it’s a high-impact business seat for an operator-minded leader who thrives on high talent density. With tier-1 backing and recognition from the World Economic Forum, you'll shape the future of industrial manufacturing while building the career-defining team of your life in Boston.
What's the next step?
Laminar are hiring from Jack's network. Talk to Jack for free and get a direct introduction to the team, if a good fit.
Role overview
You will be a founding business leader whose product is the team itself. Reporting to the CEO, you’ll scale Laminar from 50 to 200 people while preserving extreme talent density. You will run critical technical searches hands-on, own retention strategies for top performers, and codify the high-performance culture.
About Laminar
Machines learned to understand language. We’re teaching them to understand matter.
Forty percent of global manufacturing happens through physical and chemical processes inside pipes, tanks, and reactors. Despite decades of industrial automation, much of what happens inside them remains remarkably invisible. Manufacturing is the most ubiquitous and foundational sector in global economy, yet the way factories are fundamentally run have used the same control philosophies, manual operations, and legacy software for the past 60 years.
Laminar deploys state-of-the-art patented sensors and edge hardware directly into live production environments, generating data that didn’t previously exist to build foundation models deployed in factory floors that understand chemistry, composition, quality, and material state in real time. We use that understanding to run autonomy and rethink how things are made.
The last generation of industrial automation taught machines to execute instructions reliably. The next will teach them to understand the processes they control and run autonomously, adaptively, and agentically: higher quality, safety, more efficiently, sustainably, and productively.
That future is already taking shape. Today, Laminar works with 7 of the world’s 10 largest food and beverage manufacturers and operates across hundreds of factories globally across six continents. Our systems have materially reduced waste, cut manufacturing downtime, saved water, chemicals, energy, and helped prevent safety and quality failures. Our technology has gained international recognition, from being selected as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer, Gold 2026 Edison Award, Unilever Startup of the Year, to Innovator Awards by both Coca-Cola and AB InBev, and more.
We are backed by tier-one investors in physical AI to make intelligent, self-improving production the new standard for industry.
Join us to build what makes matter intelligible, and the intelligible controllable.
What you will do
- Build and run a high-velocity hiring engine to recruit elite software, hardware, and AI talent without lowering the bar.
- Own the retention of critical top performers by running structured stay-conversations and proactively identifying flight risks for leadership.
- Design and implement scalable people systems, including compensation frameworks, equity leveling, and the company’s first formal HRIS and ATS.
Who this is a fit for
- Proven track record of building and retaining talent-dense teams in high-growth startups, ideally scaling from 30 to 300+ people.
- Deep experience in full-cycle technical recruiting and closing high-level candidates who have competing offers from major tech firms.
- Strategic operator mindset with fluency in compensation structures, equity math, and the ability to link talent outcomes to business velocity.
Why this role is remarkable
- Join a hypergrowth Physical AI leader recognized as a 2026 World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer and Gold Edison Award winner.
- Act as a true business partner to the founders, shaping the culture and organizational design of a company transforming global manufacturing.
- Lead the scale-up from 50 to 200 employees for a firm already serving giants like Unilever, PepsiCo, and Danone.
How Jack & Jill work together
What happens next?
Jack’s an AI agent for job searching and career coaching. He works for you.
Jill is the AI recruiter working for the company. She recruits from Jack’s network.
If your profile’s a match and Laminar wants to meet, Jill will make the intro. In the meantime, Jack will send you excellent alternatives.