Global People Operations Specialist, Chainguard
£51-63k
+ Stock options upon hire and promotion.
Software supply chain security company
Be an early applicant
Software supply chain security company
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
£51-63k
+ Stock options upon hire and promotion.
201-500 employees
Company mission
To make the software supply chain secure by default.
Role
Who you are
- 2–5 years of experience in HR, People Operations, or a similar role in a high-growth environment
- Proven expertise with HR systems (e.g., HRIS, ATS) and a passion for leveraging technology to streamline processes
- Passion for providing exceptional employee experiences
- Solid understanding of employment regulations and compliance requirements
- Experience supporting global teams, including working with Employer of Record (EOR) services
- Exceptional organizational skills and the ability to juggle multiple priorities
- A proactive problem-solver who thrives in dynamic, fast-paced environments
What the job involves
- This role goes beyond keeping the trains running - it’s about designing and building the tracks for where we’re headed
- As the backbone of our People function, you’ll help streamline processes, implement scalable systems, and ensure compliance in an ever-evolving landscape
- Most importantly, you’ll play a vital role in delivering an exceptional employee experience, helping every Chainguardian (our affectionate term for team members) feel connected, supported, and primed for success
- In this pivotal role, you’ll have a unique opportunity to influence and shape the core elements of our People Ops experience
- By partnering across teams, you’ll help make big, complex challenges - like scaling a company at warp speed - feel seamless
- If you love solving puzzles, thrive in bringing structure to chaos, and delight in elevating every touchpoint of the employee journey, we’d love to hear from you!
- Support Employee Lifecycle: Play a key role in onboarding and offboarding processes, manage day-to-day administrative tasks, and serve as the first point of contact for HR questions to provide exceptional support
- Streamline & Uplevel Processes: Support the evaluation, implementation, and improvement of People-related systems like benefits, onboarding, and HRIS to drive operational efficiency as we scale
- Systems Management: Serve as the point person for People systems, ensuring clean and accurate data to enable reporting and insights
- Compliance Champion: Help keep us compliant by staying on top of employment laws, managing documentation, and implementing processes that align with regulations
- Leave Administration Lead: Manage leave administration by tracking employee leave balances, processing leave requests, and ensuring alignment with applicable leave policies and local regulations
- Benefits: Serve as the primary point of contact between employees and benefits providers, addressing questions and resolving issues promptly; Assist with benefits-related activities, including open enrollment, employee communications, and updates to benefits programs
- Cross-Functional Partner: Act as a liaison between People, Finance, IT, and other teams to drive operational excellence
Our take
Developers rely on open source code and apps in their day to day work, but when the provenance of the code is unknown this creates potential weaknesses that cybercriminals can exploit. Chainguard exists to build security into the coding supply chain by making it possible for companies to enforce security policies based on auditable signatures baked into the code, and by providing a security-first set of container images with no known vulnerabilities for cloud app developers.
In the wake of huge cyber attacks like the Log4j vulnerability and Solarwinds breach, software supply chain security has been an area of major focus for startups hoping to solve problems in this sector. However, most of these focus on scanning and detection of threats. Chainguard's approach comes from the other end of the process, focusing on building security into the software itself. It was built by former Google engineers aware of software developers existing workloads, so is designed to be easily installed and integrated into existing automation systems like Terraform.
Chainguard completed a Series C funding round led by Lightspeed Ventures in 2024, minting it as a new Unicorn on the cybersecurity scene. It is using this funding to expand its go-to-market internationally and expand its Chainguard Images product.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
55% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 5 rounds)
Apr 2025
$356m
SERIES D
Jul 2024
$140m
SERIES C
Total funding: $612m
Company benefits
- Equity/stock options
- Unlimited PTO
- Remote work with flexible coworking and team meetup opportunities
- Home office and internet stipend
- 100% health/dental/vision insurance coverage for you and your family
Company HQ
Everest, Kirkland, WA
Leadership
Dan Lorenc
(CEO & Co-Founder)Before co-founding Chainguard was a Software Engineer at Google, Disqus and Microsoft.
Kim Lewandowski
(Head of Product & Co-Founder)Prior to co-founding Chainguard was a Product Manager with Google. Before that was the Head of Product & Engineering at Brit + Co and the founder of Spotwag.
Matthew Moore
(CTO & Co-Founder)Was a Software Engineer at VMware, Google and Microsoft.
Ville Aikas
(Co-founder)Was a Senior Staff Engineer at VMware and a Software Engineer for Google and the University of Washingtom. Was previously Owner at VA Systems.
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