About Xenonstack
XenonStack is the fastest-growing
Data and AI Foundry for Agentic Systems
, enabling enterprises to design, deploy, and scale AI agents that deliver measurable business outcomes.
We Build Enterprise-grade Platforms Across The Agentic Stack
- ElixirData – Context OS for Agentic Intelligence
A unified context layer powering memory, reasoning, grounding, and decision intelligence for AI agents across complex enterprise workflows.
- NexaStack AI – Agentic Infrastructure Automation Platform
A cloud-native platform for deploying, operating, observing, and scaling agentic workloads, inference pipelines, and AI infrastructure with security, reliability, and efficiency.
- Akira AI – Agentic AI Platform
An enterprise platform for building, orchestrating, governing, and operating AI agents that automate real-world business processes at scale.Our mission is to
accelerate the world’s transition to AI + Human Intelligence
by making agentic systems
reliable, responsible, and enterprise-ready
.
THE OPPORTUNITY
We are seeking a
Chief Happiness Officer (CHO)
to own
culture, performance, and organizational health
across XenonStack as we scale an AI-first, engineering-driven company.This role is accountable for
engagement, leadership quality, retention of top talent, and execution health
across teams—by designing systems, feedback loops, and operating mechanisms that compound over time.This is
not a feel-good HR role
.It is a
systems + culture + performance leadership role
, partnering closely with the CEO, founders, and senior leadership.If you believe culture is something you
design and operate
, not something you hope for—this role is for you.
ROLE MISSION
Ensure XenonStack is a place where people do
the best work of their careers
—with high engagement, strong leadership, low regretted attrition, and a culture that scales without losing speed, trust, or excellence.
Key Responsibilities
- Org Health as a Measurable System
- Build instrumentation to continuously track:
- Engagement, morale, burnout, and energy across teams
- Manager effectiveness, team health, and execution quality
- Attrition risk, regretted exits, and retention of top performers
- Alignment to mission, clarity of goals, and delivery focus
- Translate signals into dashboards, leading indicators, and early-warning systems.
- Move beyond annual surveys to continuous, actionable insight.
- Feedback, Escalation & Improvement Loops
- Design and operate:
- Continuous feedback systems (pulse surveys, structured 1:1s, skip-levels)
- Clear escalation and resolution loops for friction, conflict, and disengagement
- Manager coaching programs to raise leadership quality across the company
- Detect issues early and resolve them before they impact trust or execution velocity.
- Top Performer Identification, Growth & Retention
- Build a clear, fair system to identify:
- High performers
- High-potential talent
- Critical roles and succession risks
- Ensure top performers are:
- Recognized
- Rewarded
- Developed faster
- Design targeted retention strategies for critical engineering and leadership talent.
- Partner with leadership on promotions, growth paths, and succession planning.
- Culture Design That Scales
- Codify and reinforce XenonStack’s values through:
- Rituals
- Operating norms
- Decision-making behaviors
- Ensure culture remains consistent across teams, geographies, and growth stages.
- Actively remove incentives that create:
- Politics
- Fear
- Low-trust environments
- Build a company where ownership, speed, integrity, and excellence are non-negotiable.
- Leadership Partnership & Org Design
- Partner closely with:
- CEO and founders on org health and long-term people strategy
- Engineering and business leaders on team effectiveness and leadership quality
- HR / People Ops on compensation, performance management, and career systems
- Bring data, insight, and a strong point of view—not just process execution.
What This Role Does Not Own (important Clarity)
- ❌ Day-to-day HR operations (owned by People Ops)
- ❌ Hiring execution (owned by Talent / Hiring Managers)
- ❌ Business or product strategy decisions (owned by Leadership & Product)
This role
influences all of the above
through culture, leadership quality, and org health systems—but does not execute them directly.
Skills & Qualifications
Must-Have
- 10+ years in people leadership, org design, culture, or performance roles.
- Experience in tech, startups, or engineering-led organizations.
- Strong systems thinker—comfortable designing feedback loops, metrics, and operating mechanisms.
- Deep empathy paired with high standards and low tolerance for mediocrity.
- Comfortable with data, dashboards, and analytics.
- Confident influencing senior leaders and holding them accountable.
- High integrity, low ego, and extreme trustworthiness.
Good-to-Have
- Experience scaling organizations from early to growth stages.
- Exposure to global, distributed teams.
- Familiarity with high-performance engineering cultures.
WHY SHOULD YOU JOIN US?
