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Head of People

Remote, United States

About Us

Galileo is a team-based medical practice working to improve the quality and affordability of health care for all. Operating across 50 states, Galileo offers high-touch, data-driven, multi-specialty, longitudinal care to diverse and complex patients—on the phone, in the home, and everywhere in between. Regional and national health plans, employers, and Fortune 500 organizations trust Galileo as the leading solution to improve population health. Founded by Dr. Tom X. Lee, the healthcare pioneer behind One Medical and Epocrates, Galileo is a team of leading innovators from healthcare, technology, and human-centered design. Our mission is to apply that talent and scientific thinking to transform society by solving our largest, toughest healthcare problems, while at the same time bringing patient and provider closer.

About the Role

We're looking for an experienced Head of People who combines strategic thinking with operational excellence. You'll partner with the COO to shape people strategy and lead the execution of infrastructure, programs, and operations that enable Galileo to attract, develop, and retain exceptional talent. This role requires both vision and execution—you'll think ahead about organizational needs while ensuring your team delivers effectively across all priorities, from benefits administration to performance management to recruiting operations, translating business goals into people priorities and building the systems that make them real.

This is a remote position, reporting into the Chief Operating Officer.

Here's what you'll do:

Operational Leadership & Execution

  • Run the day-to-day operations of the People team, ensuring consistent execution across all people priorities and functions
  • Partner with the COO to translate business strategy into people priorities, including workforce planning, organizational design, and capability building aligned to 2026+ strategic goals
  • Anticipate organizational needs 6-12 months ahead, proactively designing people solutions that support business growth, margin expansion, and operational scaling
  • Drive data-informed decision-making across the people function, leveraging analytics to measure effectiveness and identify improvement opportunities
  • Ensure compliance with employment law, benefits regulations, and people requirements across multi-state operations, and oversee employee relations matters

People Operations & Infrastructure

  • Lead and optimize People processes, policies, and workflows across the entire employee lifecycle—ensuring onboarding, role transitions, life events, and offboarding are executed professionally
  • Oversee employee benefits strategy and programs, ensuring competitiveness, cost-effectiveness, and excellent employee experience, while ensuring the team executes leave administration and life events seamlessly
  • Oversee payroll, tax compliance, and contractor management operations
  • Optimize People systems and technology infrastructure (HRIS, ATS, analytics tools) to support efficient operations
  • Oversee technical infrastructure for recruiting, People operations, provider credentialing and licensing, and compensation management

Program Implementation & Delivery

  • Implement and manage core people programs including performance management, manager enablement, and talent assessment
  • Execute talent development initiatives including upskilling programs, leadership development, and succession planning
  • Drive large-scale people initiatives that affect the entire company, ensuring seamless execution and measurable outcomes
  • Maintain a culture of continuous learning, innovation, and operational excellence

Team Leadership

  • Lead and develop a high-performing People team across talent acquisition, People operations, and People experience
  • Provide guidance, feedback, and mentorship to foster team growth and operational effectiveness
  • Establish clear goals, priorities, and accountability across the function to ensure consistent delivery

About You

You are a strategic People leader who excels at operational execution. You think ahead about what the organization will need—connecting people decisions to business outcomes like profitability, customer satisfaction, and operational efficiency—but you're equally comfortable rolling up your sleeves to get things done. You're comfortable operating both strategically and tactically, partnering with leadership to shape direction while also building the systems, processes, and team capabilities that make strategy real. You use data to inform decisions, build strong teams, create efficient processes, and are motivated by ensuring consistent, high-quality delivery across all people priorities.

We would love to hear from you if you have the following or equivalent experience:

  • 10+ years of progressive People leadership experience, with 3+ years leading people operations in high-growth, venture-backed startups or fast-paced environments
  • Proven track record running and optimizing people operations in organizations of 200+ employees
  • Strong operational expertise managing benefits administration, compliance, HRIS implementation, and multi-state people operations
  • Demonstrated success designing and implementing people programs that directly support business objectives and measurable outcomes (e.g., retention, productivity, cost management)
  • Deep expertise with HRIS platforms (e.g., UKG, Workday, BambooHR), ATS systems, and people analytics tools
  • Solid understanding of employment law, compliance requirements, benefits regulations, and risk mitigation
  • Ability to collect, analyze, and present people data to make sound, data-driven decisions
  • Demonstrated ability to execute consistently and effectively—comfortable ensuring team delivery while also jumping into hands-on work
  • Digital health industry experience is a plus but not required

Compensation Range:  $225,000-275,000 per year based upon prior experience, performance, and market dynamics. This role is eligible for equity.

Benefits Offered:

  • Medical / Dental / Vision insurance
  • Flexible Spending Account
  • Health Savings Account + match
  • Company paid STD/LTD, AD&D, and Life insurance
  • Paid Family Leave
  • 401K + match
  • Paid Time Off

Application Timeline: We expect a high volume of applicants to this role. As such, we will be closing the application window by end of day on Feb 13th to allow our team to thoroughly review applications.

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