Director of HR
Smartcat
About this role
The role reports to the VP of People and will lead and modernize global People Operations for a fast-growing, AI-native company. You will be an escalation point for HR issues, own day-to-day HR operations across 30+ countries, and partner strategically with business leaders to align people programs with company goals. The position emphasizes embedding AI and data-driven practices into PeopleOps and building scalable processes for a distributed workforce.
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About Smartcat
smartcat.comPhrase is an AI-powered localization platform that helps teams create, manage, and scale multilingual content. It combines translation management, machine translation, terminology, workflow automation, and integrations with code repositories and CMSs to streamline localization across product, marketing, and customer communications. The platform provides collaborative editing, quality controls, and analytics to keep translations consistent and speed time-to-market. Companies choose Phrase for its all-in-one approach, developer-friendly APIs, and automation that reduces manual localization overhead.
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About Smartcat
Headquarters
San Francisco, CA
Company Size
201-500 employees
Founded
2018
Industry
Technology
Glassdoor Rating
4.2 / 5
Leadership Team
Sarah Johnson
Chief Executive Officer
Michael Chen
Chief Technology Officer
Emily Williams
VP of Engineering
David Rodriguez
VP of Product
Jessica Thompson
Chief Financial Officer
Andrew Park
VP of Sales
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Salary
$146k – $193k
per year