Head of People & Performance

Monumental

Job Overview

Location

Amsterdam

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• We're hiring our first Head of People & Performance to own how we attract, develop, and stretch our team as Monumental grows from around 100 people to several hundred over the next few years.
• You'll work as an extension of the founders - your job will be to get the most out of everyone and scale the judgment our team currently have in their own heads.
• You'll own the people side of how Monumental performs: who we hire, how we develop them, how we run our performance and equity cycles, and how we keep the bar high as the company grows.
• This is a hands-on, operator role. Like everyone at Monumental, you'll pick up the projects with the biggest priority at any given moment - the special projects that often span several teams and don't yet have an owner.
• You'll move across software, workshop, operations, and the deployment teams, take on the high-priority project that needs an owner, and see it through before moving to the next thing that matters most.
• You'll build a real read on where each team is strong and where it's thin, and turn that into who we hire next - especially as we work to strengthen the hardware side of the company.
• You'll partner with the founders on the senior hires that matter most, where you'll have a genuine view on whether someone will thrive here rather than only on whether the process ran cleanly.
• You'll help scope which projects each person takes on, so our best people are consistently pointed at our most important problems.
• You'll build 'spot great people' into how the whole company works.
• You'll own how reviews actually happen here: the conversations managers run with their teams, how we calibrate across them, and how cash and equity decisions tie back.
• You'll own how we think about cash versus equity at different levels, so that real ownership is felt across the team rather than only at the top.
• You'll coach managers to have the conversation; you don't have it for them.
• You'll spot the early signal and make sure people get the feedback they need to course-correct.
• You'll run a subset of 1:1s yourself and design the system that makes the rest happen well.
• You'll move on what's actually needed and resist adding policy for its own sake.
• You'll lead the People team, including all of its future hires.

🎯 Requirements

• Experience building and managing high-performing teams.
• A problem-solver, first and foremost.
• Numerate without being reductive.
• Suspicious of policy as a default mode.
• Genuinely curious about people's work, not wellbeing in the abstract.
• An instinct to connect people across departments.
• High personal intensity.
• You can run a 1:1 that someone walks out of energised.
• Comfortable in a technical environment.
• You introduce structure without killing startup feel.
• You can read the legal framework we operate in.
• A Day 1 culture fit, with minimal steering needed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Joining Monumental means being at the forefront of a movement aimed at making significant strides in the construction industry.
• Your work has the potential to impact not just the company but the future of how we build.
• You'll be part of a team that's driven by innovation, eager to tackle complex challenges, and ready to make a tangible difference.
• You'll have the opportunity to work on complex problems and make a meaningful impact.
• You'll be part of a company that values innovation, creativity, and collaboration.
• You'll have access to a range of benefits and perks, including a competitive salary, comprehensive health insurance, and a generous equity package.
• You'll have the opportunity to work with a talented and diverse team of professionals.

Skills & Technologies

REST

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About Monumental

Monumental Inc. is an AI robotics company that builds autonomous construction-site robots for bricklaying and masonry tasks. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Amsterdam, the company combines mapping, perception and robotic manipulation to automate repetitive, labor-intensive building processes, aiming to address labor shortages and improve productivity in the global construction industry.

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