Who we are

Nirvana is on a mission to modernize commercial insurance and enable a safer world. Our technology platform delivers modern insurance & risk management to not only help our customers protect their businesses, but actually improve safety for everyone.

To start, we’re transforming the legacy, $750B+ commercial insurance industry through cutting-edge predictive models using real-time IoT data (~50B connected devices by 2030), automation to deliver instantaneous quotes faster underwriting, proactive, and data-driven insights to help customers prevent accidents.

Backed by top-tier VCs including General Catalyst Lightspeed Ventures, Nirvana became the fastest insurtech EVER to launch in Jan 2022 and crossed $10M run rate in under 6 months, more than 2x faster than best-in-class insurtechs. Our leadership team has helped scale multi-billion dollar companies from scratch including Samsara, Rubrik, Acko Flexport, and includes industry veterans from Hiscox, AIG, The Hartford RLI.

About the role

In this role, you’ll be a founding member of our People team and help build a world-class company culture and employee experience across our global, distributed team. You’ll work closely with our leadership and play a critical role in shaping our policies, programs systems as we scale rapidly. You'll harness your foundation in a range of focus areas including compliance, compensation, benefits, performance reviews, DEI and more.

This is a unique opportunity to have an outsized impact and grow rapidly in your career as we reimagine commercial insurance from the ground up!

Our team is spread across the Americas India, with offices in San Francisco, CA, Columbus, OH and Bangalore, India. We’re open to candidates in any location.

What you’ll do

• Develop and implement policies, processes, systems and programs to deliver a best-in-class employee experience
• Oversee the administration of people programs including compensation, benefits, performance recognition, onboarding, employee relations, compliance and more
• Evangelize our mission, vision values, and drive initiatives to reinforce our culture
• Build trusted relationships with leaders by providing expertise and insights to help scale high impact teams
• Track industry trends and best-practices to continuously up-level our People function

About you

• Extensive experience in People Ops / HR, ideally with some background working with global teams
• Strong communication skills, both written verbal
• Highly organized structured, able to drive complex projects independently and with delegation where appropriate
• Thorough critical thinker who isn’t afraid to make decisions
• Bias-to-action - you’re not afraid to get your hands dirty stretch yourself
• Scrappy (and proud of it)
• Owner mentality - take accountability for your actions results
• Successfully able to work in high-growth ambiguous start-up environments
• Experience helping build high-performing distributed / remote teams is a plus
• Ideally loves dogs :)

Benefits

• Competitive salary equity
• Medical, dental vision insurance, and wellness benefits
• 401k with company match
• Unlimited PTO
• Work from home friendly home office setup reimbursement