Head of People

Job Description
About Morpho

Morpho is a leading Decentralized Finance (DeFi) lending protocol that raised $70 million from Ribbit Capital, a16z crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Variant, Brevan Howard, Pantera, Blocktower, and 50 others to build an
open lending network giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms.
Morpho is experiencing explosive growth, with over $10 billion in
deposits on the network
, solidifying itself as the new standard for DeFi lending. Now, Morpho is scaling its team of contributors to establish itself as a cornerstone, not just of DeFi, but of a new internet-native financial system.

Our Mission

Morpho's mission is to power human ambition with open access to capital. Human ambition has no borders, but the capital to fuel it does. Today's financial system is closed and fragmented. No one sees all opportunities, most overpay, and some are excluded entirely. We believe capital should flow efficiently to where it's needed most — giving anyone, anywhere, access to the best possible terms.

Location

Paris or remote (from GMT up to +2h GMT to ensure sufficient overlap with the rest of the team).

How We Work
We move fast on hard problems in a nascent market with no set playbook : navigating uncertainty is part of the job. You'll be challenged: anyone can question work and decisions must be justified. We keep a high bar and match it with high support: we help each other unblock and share context openly, with low ego. More about our values:

Role

The mission of this role is to scale Morpho's People function from 0-1 to 150+ team members while maintaining the highest operational excellence and making Morpho the best-functioning team in DeFi.

Responsibilities

• Champion Morpho's culture through hiring, onboarding, and engagement initiatives to ensure every team member has the conditions to thrive in a remote-first, high-performing environment.
• Own and scale the full Talent Journey using data and AI-driven insights to enable high performers to do their best work across all stages from recruitment to retention.
• Recruit, develop, and manage a high-performing People team across admin, recruitment, and operations to build clear ownership and a culture of high standards rooted in a crypto-native mindset.
• Align hiring plans, org design, and people programs with product and go-to-market priorities to ensure the right people are in the right roles at the right time for business success.
• Act as a strategic partner to leadership by providing clear data, simple processes, and training to empower them to scale their teams effectively and make informed people decisions.
• Design systems, structures, and processes that anticipate business changes to gracefully scale with volume, headcount, and the needs of a global team.
• Monitor best practices in crypto and high-growth tech to selectively bring in what makes Morpho more resilient and efficient as the company evolves.

What Success Looks Like

In your first 30 days
You'll build a clear understanding of Morpho's strategy, products, protocol, and internal organization. You'll map existing People processes, tech stack, ownerships, and gaps to identify immediate priorities.

By Month 4–6
You'll have opened new roles if needed, owned team rituals (1:1s, reviews, knowledge sharing), and started active coaching to raise the bar. You'll design the People roadmap for the coming year, establish high-bandwidth communication with the leadership team, and raise the bar on recruitment and people operations.

By Month 12
You'll have made People operations reliable and predictable, harmonized across countries with minimal firefighting. You'll enable the business to scale without slowing down growth, make Morpho the highest functioning team in DeFi, and become a trusted strategic partner to leadership on key business decisions.

Job requirements

Competencies & Traits

Adaptability
— You thrive in a fast-moving, remote-first environment where priorities shift and you need to respond quickly across time zones.

First-principles & Bias for Action
— You challenge assumptions, act with ownership, and adjust fast rather than relying on rigid processes that don't fit Morpho's context.

Low Ego & Collective Success
— You put the mission above personal career goals, operate with transparency, and empower leaders rather than creating dependencies on HR.

Focus & Simplicity
— You prioritize what matters, ship clear solutions, and use data to simplify rather than complicate how we hire and grow.

Crypto Curiosity
— You have genuine appetite for the DeFi ecosystem and continuous learning about protocol economics, token structures, and the crypto talent landscape.

Must-have Experience

• 8+ years in People Operations, including in high-change tech startup environments (web3, AI) scaling teams from 50 to 150+ people
• Experience managing the entire Talent Journey from hiring to onboarding to people development to long-term retention
• Experience working in ambitious, culture-driven, remote, and internationally distributed teams
• Track record of empowering and engaging leaders rather than setting up heavy processes
• Ability to embody and champion a strong company culture
• Can get operational and hands-on when needed
• Empathetic approach to people and their development
• Crypto experience or strong appetite to learn about the space
• Located in Paris or ability to come frequently to the office (1x a month)
• Used to working with startup tools (Slack, Notion) and geared towards AI/automation

Perks & Benefits
We design benefits around deep work and growth, so you can do the best work of your career. Expect fair, top-tier compensation, real flexibility, time together in Paris, great health coverage, and support to keep learning.

Equal opportunity
We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and hire based on talent, potential, and values alignment.

Ready to shape the future of finance?