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Serve as the operational engine behind Vaulted's People function: owning core HR processes, supporting employees at every stage of their lifecycle, and helping us build the systems and structure needed for the next phase of growth.
About Vaulted Deep
Vaulted is a waste management company that removes carbon. We take organic waste that can pollute our environment above ground and safely inject it ultra deep underground—permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere while protecting local land, air, and water. Vaulted is based in Houston, San Francisco, and Kansas. With a growing team of 70+ people across the country, Vaulted signed the second largest carbon removal offtake ever with Microsoft in July 2025 and is rapidly expanding to new sites. Vaulted's proprietary technology builds on decades of expertise to deliver safe, durable carbon and waste management solutions now, at scale.
Description
People Generalist
About Vaulted Deep
Vaulted is a waste management company that removes carbon. We take organic waste that can pollute our environment above ground and safely inject it ultra deep underground—permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere while protecting local land, air, and water. Vaulted is based in Houston, San Francisco, and Kansas. With a growing team of 70+ people across the country, Vaulted signed the second largest carbon removal offtake ever with Microsoft in July 2025 and is rapidly expanding to new sites. Vaulted's proprietary technology builds on decades of expertise to deliver safe, durable carbon and waste management solutions now, at scale.
About The Role
Vaulted is growing quickly, and we’re looking for a People Generalist who can help us thoughtfully scale our team and respective people operations. In this role, you’ll be the operational engine behind the People function: owning core HR processes, supporting employees at every stage of their lifecycle, and helping us build the systems and structure needed for the next phase of growth. Responsibilities are as follows:
People Operations & Compliance (40–50%)
- Careers at Vaulted Deep
- People Generalist
- Full time
Serve as the operational engine behind Vaulted's People function: owning core HR processes, supporting employees at every stage of their lifecycle, and helping us build the systems and structure needed for the next phase of growth.
About Vaulted Deep
Vaulted is a waste management company that removes carbon. We take organic waste that can pollute our environment above ground and safely inject it ultra deep underground—permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere while protecting local land, air, and water. Vaulted is based in Houston, San Francisco, and Kansas. With a growing team of 70+ people across the country, Vaulted signed the second largest carbon removal offtake ever with Microsoft in July 2025 and is rapidly expanding to new sites. Vaulted's proprietary technology builds on decades of expertise to deliver safe, durable carbon and waste management solutions now, at scale.
Description
People Generalist
About Vaulted Deep
Vaulted is a waste management company that removes carbon. We take organic waste that can pollute our environment above ground and safely inject it ultra deep underground—permanently removing carbon from the atmosphere while protecting local land, air, and water. Vaulted is based in Houston, San Francisco, and Kansas. With a growing team of 70+ people across the country, Vaulted signed the second largest carbon removal offtake ever with Microsoft in July 2025 and is rapidly expanding to new sites. Vaulted's proprietary technology builds on decades of expertise to deliver safe, durable carbon and waste management solutions now, at scale.
About The Role
Vaulted is growing quickly, and we’re looking for a People Generalist who can help us thoughtfully scale our team and respective people operations. In this role, you’ll be the operational engine behind the People function: owning core HR processes, supporting employees at every stage of their lifecycle, and helping us build the systems and structure needed for the next phase of growth. Responsibilities are as follows:
People Operations & Compliance (40–50%)
- Partner with Finance to ensure accurate, timely payroll each cycle.
- Update and maintain our employee handbook, policies, and end-to-end employee lifecycle processes.
- Own and continuously improve onboarding and offboarding.
- Ensure our HRIS and ATS are always accurate; conduct regular data audits.
- Manage compliance across federal, state, and local laws; own documentation, audits, and employee files accuracy.
- Be the first point of contact for employee questions and escalate as necessary.
- Support planning and logistics for company events, offsites, and culture-building activities.
- Prepare tools, templates, and data for performance reviews, compensation cycles, and other people programs. Design for automation to optimize Vaulted’s HR processes, when applicable.
- Manage recruiting coordination across roles and teams.
- Partner with hiring managers to develop role requirements, scorecards, and interview plans.
- Serve as the proactive and organized point of contact to run timely & streamlined communications throughout hiring processes (with team members & candidates).
- Post job descriptions, advertise jobs and partner with recruiting agencies.
- Manage sourcing, scheduling, phone screens, and candidate experience.
- Ensure recruiting processes stay consistent, equitable, and efficient.
- 3–5+ years of experience across both People Operations and Recruiting, ideally in a fast-paced startup environment.
- Experience at a Series A–C company, ideally scaling from ~80 to 200 employees.
- Comfortable supporting both exempt and non-exempt employee groups across different states.
- Hands-on experience building / improving HR infrastructure, processes, and systems, and leveraging automation in doing so.
- Familiarity with Microsoft Office Suite as well as modern HR, project management, and business tools (Rippling, Ashby, Monday.com, etc.), Bonus points if you’ve helped implement them.
- Strong understanding of California, Texas and Kansas employment law; multi-state knowledge is a plus.
- Extremely organized, proactive, and data-driven - someone who can bring structure to chaos.
- Comfortable wearing multiple hats, switching contexts quickly, and contributing wherever is needed.
- You have a strong bias to action to deliver on the fast-paced goals of a startup working to mitigate the worst impacts of climate change.
- You're energized by solving problems in ambiguity, taking independent ownership of your responsibilities as we chart a new industry pathway.
- You value and exercise respectful dissent - including giving & receiving feedback! - grounded in kindness and positive intent.
- You exhibit genuine care and appreciation for fellow Vaulters through the wins, setbacks, milestones, and everything in between.