Vice President of People, Pano AI
$250-260k
+ Offers bonus and equity
Early wildfire detection & monitoring
Open for applications
Early wildfire detection & monitoring
101-200 employees
Open for applications
$250-260k
+ Offers bonus and equity
101-200 employees
Company mission
To give firefighters advanced tools to safeguard lives, communities, and the environment.
Role
Who you are
- The ideal candidate is both a strategic operator and a hands-on leader who thrives in dynamic, high-growth environments and brings a forward-looking approach to how People teams leverage technology, data, and AI to scale effectively
- 10+ years of experience in People/HR, including 3–5+ years in a senior leadership role
- Experience building and scaling People functions in high-growth startup or scale-up environments
- Proven experience partnering closely with founders and executive teams
- Strong expertise across people operations, talent strategy, and organizational development
- Track record of building and developing high-performing teams and leaders
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with hands-on execution
- Comfortable leveraging modern HR technologies, data, and emerging AI tools to improve efficiency, decision-making, and employee experience
- Data and metrics-driven; comfortable building dashboards and using analytics to guide strategy
- Curious and experimental mindset—willing to test, learn, and iterate on new approaches to recruiting, people programs, and workplace experience
- Excellent judgment, communication skills, leadership skills, and a high degree of integrity
- Passion for building mission-driven, high-performing teams and contributing to climate and impact-focused work
What the job involves
- As Vice President of People, you’ll play a pivotal role in shaping and scaling Pano’s people strategy during a critical phase of growth
- This leader will own and evolve the People function across People Operations, Talent, and “Connectedness” Initiatives for our hybrid-remote workforce, including Workplace Experience in our physical office(s)—ensuring Pano attracts, develops, and retains exceptional talent while maintaining a strong, values-driven culture
- You will be a pragmatic player-coach and trusted partner to the CEO and executive team to align people strategy with business objectives, enabling Pano to scale thoughtfully while preserving its culture, which is a key competitive strength
- Define and execute a company-wide people strategy aligned with business goals and growth plans
- Partner closely with founders and executive leadership on organizational design, leadership development, and culture
- Drive initiatives that reinforce Pano’s values: Impact, Service, Excellence, Speed, and Innovation
- Build, scale, and lead the People Operations function, ensuring operational excellence across systems, policies, compensation, and benefits for the global Pano team
- Oversee the development of scalable programs across performance management, engagement, and career development that enable accountability and high performance
- Establish and monitor key people metrics across hiring, retention, and organizational health
- Lead the Workplace Experience function in delivering a best-in-class employee experience across remote, hybrid, and in-office environments
- Ensure events, programs, and spaces foster connection across distributed teams
- Coach and lead the scaling of a high-performing recruiting function that contributes to a strong employer brand that attracts top-tier talent across technical, operational, and GTM roles
- Align hiring strategy, processes, and outcomes with company growth objectives
- Lead, coach, and develop a small but mighty People Ops, Workplace Experience and Talent team
- Build a high-performing, aligned People, Talent and Workplace function that scales with the company
Our take
With wildfires becoming an increasing concern across the globe, Pano AI has leveraged innovations in AI and computer vision technology to create an early warning and response system for the destructive phenomenon.
Using high-definition, remote-controllable cameras, its hardware is placed within forests, where it can be human-operated or work passively in scanning mode. The video feed is then analyzed by AI, which alerts authorities if it picks up smoke or fire.
At present, Pano AI is monitoring millions of acres of land. It has enjoyed substantial funding for its technology, has a partnership with T Mobile to utilize its 5G network, and has already helped to mitigate environmental disasters by delivering alerts before the first 911 call.
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Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2025
$44m
SERIES B
Jul 2023
$17m
EARLY VC
Total funding: $89m
Company HQ
SoMa, San Francisco, CA
Leadership
Sonia Kastner
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously Vice President of Supply Chain at PAX and a Global Supply Manager at Nest.
Arvind Satyam
(Co-Founder & CCO)Currently Growth Advisor at CoMotion and Young Global Leader at World Economic Forum and Board Member at NewCities. Previously Venture Partner at OzoneX Ventures.
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