Director, HR Operations & Data

At Relativity Space, we’re building rockets to serve today’s needs and tomorrow’s breakthroughs. Our Terran R vehicle will deliver customer payloads to orbit, meeting the growing demand for launch capacity. But that’s just the start. Achieving commercial success with Terran R will unlock new opportunities to advance science, exploration, and innovation, pioneering progress that reaches beyond the known.

Joining Relativity means becoming part of something where autonomy, ownership, and impact exist at every level. Here, you're not just executing tasks; you're solving problems that haven’t been solved before, helping develop a rocket, a factory, and a business from the ground up. Whether you’re in propulsion, manufacturing, software, avionics, or a corporate function, you’ll collaborate across teams, shape decisions, and see your work come to life in record time. Relativity is a place where creativity and technical rigor go hand in hand, and your voice will help define the stories we’re writing together. Now is a unique moment in time where it’s early enough to leave your mark on the product, the process, and the culture, but far enough along that Terran R is tangible and picking up momentum. The most meaningful work of your career is waiting. Join us.

About the Team:

The People & Talent team is a core enabler of the business with a true seat at the table and broad visibility across the company. Built on three integrated pillars, People, Talent, and Employee Relations, we design how Relativity grows and thrives. The People team shapes the employee experience through compensation, benefits, performance, onboarding, and leadership partnership. Talent architects intentional hiring strategies and scalable, values driven candidate experiences that define how we grow. Employee Relations fosters a fair, respectful, and high performing environment through trusted guidance, coaching, and principled problem solving. Together, we shape not only who joins Relativity, but how they succeed and scale with us.

About the Role:

• This role serves as a critical backbone of the People & Talent function, with accountability for workforce data integrity, operational excellence, and well-controlled processes that support a complex, rapidly growing organization.

• You will oversee the systems, workflows, and infrastructure that power the end-to-end workforce lifecycle — spanning candidate and hiring operations through onboarding, employee changes, and offboarding. In close partnership with Employment Legal, People Compliance & ER, Finance, and IT, you will translate business and regulatory requirements into practical, scalable solutions.

• This is a highly cross-functional and high-visibility role. The work directly supports company growth, hiring velocity, financial accuracy, and audit readiness. Success in this position requires strong operational judgment, comfort navigating ambiguity, and the ability to balance rigor, speed, and employee experience.

• As Relativity continues to scale, you will play a central role in building resilient processes, strengthening controls, and ensuring our People infrastructure grows alongside the business.

• Optimize People & Talent systems to ensuring reliability, seamless workflows, and strong user experience while exploring opportunities for automation and simplicity.

• Own workforce data integrity end-to-end, proactively mitigating risks that could impact compliance, reporting, or organizational trust.

About You:

• 10+ years of experience in People Operations or related functions, including leadership. Building, mentoring, and leading high-performing teams across people and recruiting operations.

• Designs, implements, and continuously strengthens critical processes and internal controls, with a focus on auditability and long-term scalability.

• Brings deep experience designing, building, and scaling People & Talent processes, systems, and operational frameworks in high-growth environments.

• Possesses a strong understanding of HR operational controls, compliance requirements, and audit readiness; SOX experience strongly preferred.

• Exhibits exceptional judgment, attention to detail, and a proactive approach to identifying risks and strengthening operational rigor.

• Operates effectively in ambiguous, evolving environments, balancing rigor, speed, and employee experience.

• Extensive experience developing reporting capabilities that drive enterprise-wide value and support strategic decision making.

• Deep data visualization and dashboard architecture experience.

Nice to haves but not required:

• Experience of optimizing complex HR processes at scale.

• Workday subject matter

At Relativity Space, we are committed to transparency and fairness in our compensation practices. Actual compensation will be determined based on experience, qualifications, and other job-related factors.

Compensation is only one part of our total rewards package. Relativity Space offers competitive salary and equity, a generous PTO and sick leave policy, parental leave, an annual learning and development stipend, and more! To see some of the benefits & perks we offer, please visit here.

Hiring Range:
$190,000—$238,000 USD

We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

If you need a reasonable accommodation, please contact us at [email protected].