Head of People Job at Suno, Boston, MA

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  • Suno
  • Boston, MA

Job Description

About Suno

At Suno, we are building a future where anyone can make music. You can make a song for any moment with just a few short words. Award-winning artists use Suno, but our core user base consists of everyday people making music — often for the first time.

We are a team of musicians and AI experts, including alumni from Spotify, TikTok, Meta and Kensho. We like to ship code, make music and drink coffee. Our company culture celebrates music and experimenting with sound — from lunchroom conversations to the studio in our office.

About the Role

At Suno, our people are our greatest strength. As our first senior people leader, you will be responsible for building, maintaining, and growing a strong, high-performing culture that attracts, develops and retains exceptional talent. Reporting directly to the CEO, you will define and execute a comprehensive People strategy that enables our team to thrive and perform at the highest level.

A key focus of this role will be driving talent acquisition and organizational development—ensuring we recruit, develop, and retain world-class talent while fostering a culture of collaboration, innovation, and excellence. You will build and lead a holistic People function, overseeing everything from organizational design and compensation to performance management and culture-building.

This is an ideal opportunity for someone who has scaled aspects of (or all of) a People/HR organization and is eager to own and shape the People function in a fast-paced, emerging technology environment. If you are passionate about building high-performing teams, driving cultural impact, and making people the foundation of success, we’d love to hear from you.

What You’ll Do

  • Develop and execute a strategic People roadmap aligned with Suno’s growth and culture objectives.

  • Foster a culture of recognition, growth, and accountability.

  • Serve as a trusted advisor to executive leadership, providing guidance on organizational design, workforce planning, and culture initiatives.

  • Build, mentor, and manage a small but growing team of HR professionals, ensuring alignment with company values and priorities.

  • Lead the design and implementation of Suno’s compensation philosophy, structures, and practices including the implementation of a performance review process

  • Evaluate and optimize our benefits offerings (medical, dental, vision, 401(k), etc.) to stay competitive and equitable.

  • Establish and refine HR policies, processes, and tools that support a rapidly growing organization and ensure legal compliance for all employment practices

  • Manage relationships with external partners, including payroll, benefits providers, and HR tech vendors.

What You’ll Need

  • Minimum of 7+ years in HR, People Operations, or related fields, with at least 3 years in a leadership or management capacity. Prior experience scaling People functions at high-growth startups or tech companies is required .

  • Innate ambition to build a world class brand and a company that is THE place to work

  • Demonstrated track record of building and leading high-performing HR/People teams. Bonus points if you’ve 2x-3x the size of a company in 12-24 mos.

  • Knowledge of compensation design, pay philosophy, and benefits administration.

  • Ability to partner internally and with external partners to create and maintain HR best practices and regulatory requirements across multiple states (MA, NY, CA).

  • Proven ability to develop and manage robust recruiting pipelines, drive employer branding initiatives, and hire for both technical and non-technical roles.

  • Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organization and great judgement/intuition on people and processes

  • Comfortable leveraging HRIS, ATS, and data analytics tools to drive People decisions and initiatives

  • A love of music (listening, exploring, making) is a huge plus

Additional Notes :

  • Applicants must be eligible to work in the US. 

  • This is an onsite role in our Cambridge, Mass office

Location: Cambridge, MA

Benefits

  • Healthcare for you and your dependents, with vision and dental

  • 401k with match

  • Generous commuter benefit

  • Flexible PTO

Job Tags

Work at office, Flexible hours,

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