# People Lead

People Lead About the role We are hiring River AI’s first People Lead to own the human resources function and the related systems that keep the company running: HR, payroll, benefits, insurance, and operations. You'll set them up, run them day to day, and keep improving them as we grow. The role has unusual reach. You will shape nearly everyone's experience here, from a new hire's first day to the environment every employee works in, and you will be trusted with the judgment calls that come with that. We are a team that is genuinely interested in working smarter. You will have real room to deploy AI to take the repetitive or tedious parts of operations off your plate, so your time goes to meaningful work. Who we are At River AI, our mission is to create personal AI owned and shaped by each individual. To achieve this, we are building the full stack required for people and organizations to create AI models of their own-from training infrastructure and open-weight model post-training to personal hardware and next-generation interfaces. We are scientists, engineers, and builders from the industry’s leading technology companies and AI labs. Our team has experience scaling consumer prod

- **Id**: 1070018
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/river-ai-people-lead>
- **Role**: HR
- **Role family**: HR
- **Seniority**: lead
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: Palo Alto, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-09-20T00:47:14Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-09-22
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T07:02:32Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 53
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 3776
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Cafeteria, Equity, Unlimited PTO, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Foundation Models, AI Chips & Accelerators, AI Development Tools

## Company

- **Id**: 25477
- **Name**: River AI
- **Domain**: river.ai
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/river-ai>
- **Size band**: 11-50
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 88
- **Open postings**: 20
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0.5
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 200000
- **Max**: 380000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 380000

## Technologies

- **Post-training** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Repost count**: 0
- **Days open**: 53

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 7
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-09-20T01:08:38Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 17; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 1; Filings 12m: 1

## Liveness

- **Score**: 20
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.446
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 52
- **Expected fill days**: 31
- **Reasons**: conf:0, stale_co, win:tail
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-11T05:49:22Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 380000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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