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title: 'Head of People at Patlytics, Inc.'
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# Head of People at Patlytics, Inc.

- **Company:** Patlytics, Inc.
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Compensation:** $180k–$275k
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Posted:** 2026-08-18
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-09
- **Apply:** https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/patlytics/43901265-d6d6-4b51-b977-7b901b2f5eb6

## Job description

Patlytics is the premier and market leading end-to-end platform for the entire patent lifecycle. The platform integrates AI-powered solutions that accelerate infringement and invalidity analysis, patent application drafting, office action analysis, and portfolio management/IP strategy. Backed by SignalFire, N47, and Google's Gradient Ventures, Patlytics is the most capitalized AI-native IP platform with total funding of approximately $65 million, raised in under two and a half years. Patlytics is trusted by the world's most innovative companies, over 40% of Am Law 100 firms, and multiple top Legal 500/Chambers-ranked IP practices, including Quinn Emanuel, McDermott Will & Schulte, Foley & Lardner, Canon, Rivian, Xerox, Asahi Kasei, and TaylorMade. The matters these firms bring to Patlytics are among their most critical: strategic patent prosecution, active litigation, and high-stakes licensing negotiations. Faced with record claim volumes and growing case complexity, practitioners trust Patlytics to scale their output without compromising the precision their clients, the courts, and their firms demand. With teams across the globe we're building a global company fueled by exceptional talent and bold ideas. Our rapid expansion is driven by people who bring entrepreneurial energy, intellectual curiosity, and a shared commitment to setting the global standard for AI-powered IP intelligence. This is a rare chance to help define a new category in real time – the work is ambitious, the bar is high, and the opportunity for growth is unmatched.

## Role Overview

The Head of People runs our people function: HR systems, compliance, compensation, performance, and hiring. Day to day, that means administering Rippling and Ashby, running compensation and performance cycles, keeping us compliant across the states and countries we operate in, handling employee relations, and owning hiring for our most important roles. You'll extend our job architecture and comp bands as we add teams and geographies, and work with managers to make sure our programs are used consistently. You'll work closely with our CEO on leveling and compensation decisions, org design, and sensitive employee situations. This is a hands-on role that we expect to grow into a team.

## What You'll Do

- Own People Operations infrastructure end to end — HRIS (Rippling) administration and data integrity, job architecture maintenance, workflow automation, and the reporting leadership uses to make headcount and comp decisions.
- Run and evolve the compensation framework: leveling, bands by job family, equity guidelines, offer construction, and the annual review and refresh cycles that keep it credible.
- Operate the performance program — review cadence, calibration, promotion decisions, and manager enablement — and drive the adoption that determines whether it works.
- Own employment compliance across all jurisdictions, including I-9 and work authorization, wage and hour, leave, required trainings, policy upkeep, and the people-side evidence supporting SOC 2 and customer security reviews.
- Manage global employment operations across US and international entities, partnering with counsel, EOR providers, and finance on classification and benefits.
- Own recruiting: ATS (Ashby) administration, interview process quality, scorecards, pipeline reporting, and hands-on execution on the searches that matter most.
- Lead employee relations with judgment and discretion — performance management, investigations, terminations, and the conversations that require a steady, credible partner.
- Partner with the CEO and executives on workforce planning, organizational design, and the people implications of how the company grows.

## What You'll Bring

- 8+ years in People Operations, HR, or Talent, including time owning the function at a high-growth technology company.
- Deep hands-on HRIS and ATS fluency — you administer these systems yourself rather than supervising someone who does. Rippling and Ashby experience is a strong plus.
- Experience running compensation cycles, leveling decisions, and job architecture in a venture-backed environment, including equity structures.
- Strong command of US employment compliance across multiple states, and ideally international entities.
- Sound judgment and discretion in employee relations. You've handled sensitive situations without drama and without exposure.
- Recruiting credibility across technical and go-to-market roles.
- The discipline to work inside an existing system — improving what's there and extending it as the company grows, rather than rebuilding it to your own preferences.
- Bonus: SOC 2 or similar audit experience; background in AI, legal tech, or another domain requiring specialized talent.

## About Patlytics, Inc.

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Patlytics is an AI-powered platform that supports the full patent lifecycle—from invention disclosure and drafting to infringement detection and portfolio management—for law firms, in-house IP teams, and Fortune 500 companies.
- **Entity Type**: Private (Series B; total funding reported as $58.5M [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/patlytics) or $80.1M [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics) – conflicting figures)
- **Headquarters**: San Francisco, California, USA (also has a New York, USA location per LinkedIn) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/patlytics) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics)
- **Founded**: 2023 (per CB Insights) or 2024 (per LinkedIn) [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/patlytics) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics)
- **Founders**: Paul Lee (CEO & Co-Founder) and Arthur Jen (CTO & Co-Founder) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics)

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Intellectual property software / Legal technology
- **Target customers**: B2B; Am Law 100 law firms, in-house IP departments, Fortune 500 companies, and IP professionals globally [patlytics.ai](https://www.patlytics.ai/)
- **Mission**: Reduce cycle times, increase margins, and deliver winning IP outcomes at scale [patlytics.ai](https://www.patlytics.ai/)

## Products & Services
- **AI Patent Intelligence Platform**: End-to-end platform covering the entire patent lifecycle – SaaS [patlytics.ai](https://www.patlytics.ai/)
  - **Infringement Detection & Monitoring**: Automatically detects potential infringements using AI, reduces manual overhead.
  - **Patent‑to‑Product Mapping**: Matches patent claims to product functionality for licensing or litigation.
  - **Portfolio Management & Classification**: Auto‑tags patents, identifies high‑value vs. low‑value assets, and enables portfolio pruning.
  - **Claim Chart Automation**: Builds audit‑ready claim charts quickly.
  - **Drafting Assistance**: Provides structured templates, prior art search, and claim tree generation.
  - **Invalidity Analysis**: Surfaces prior art and automates invalidity contentions.

## Market Standing
- **Valuation**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total funding – $58.5M (CB Insights) or $80.1M (LinkedIn) – conflicting reports; latest round was a $40.5M Series B led by SignalFire in April 2026 [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/patlytics) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics)
- **Notable Investors/Partners**: SignalFire (lead Series B), Gradient (lead Seed), Myriad Venture Partners, Liquid 2 Ventures, Alumni Ventures, N47, Jeff Hammes [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/patlytics) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics)
- **Growth Signals**: Headcount grew ~97% year‑over‑year to 50 employees; operates in 7 countries (US, Taiwan, Malaysia, Canada, Singapore, UK, Vietnam); top‑tier firms from Am Law 100 and IAM Patent 1000 are customers [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics) [patlytics.ai](https://www.patlytics.ai/)

## Competitive Advantages
- **AI‑native platform** purpose‑built for IP, fine‑tuned on global patent data with citation‑backed outputs and confidence indicators to prevent hallucinations
- **Security certifications**: SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 42001; customer data encrypted and never used for model training [patlytics.ai](https://www.patlytics.ai/)
- **High switching cost**: Deep integration into existing law firm and corporate IP workflows, replacing multiple point tools with a single platform

## Strategic Focus
- Expanding AI capabilities across the full patent lifecycle and scaling go‑to‑market to capture more law firm and enterprise accounts
- Recent $40M Series B will be used to “expand the AI platform purpose‑built for IP work” [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/patlytics)

## Why Work Here
- **Culture**: Emphasizes extreme ownership, autonomy, responsiveness, and a high quality bar [patlytics.ai/careers](https://www.patlytics.ai/careers)
- **Work environment**: Hybrid & flexible work culture; globally distributed team across 7 countries [patlytics.ai/careers](https://www.patlytics.ai/careers) [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics)
- **Benefits**: Health, dental, vision, 401k program, and professional development opportunities [patlytics.ai/careers](https://www.patlytics.ai/careers)
- **Diversity & inclusion**: Committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees can bring their authentic selves [patlytics.ai/careers](https://www.patlytics.ai/careers)
- **Engineering culture**: Technical team comprises 20% of headcount; strong emphasis on AI/ML and patent data expertise [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics)

## Sources
1. [patlytics.ai](https://www.patlytics.ai/)
2. [patlytics.ai/careers](https://www.patlytics.ai/careers)
3. [patlytics.ai/about](https://www.patlytics.ai/about)
4. [cbinsights.com](https://www.cbinsights.com/company/patlytics)
5. [linkedin.com](https://www.linkedin.com/company/patlytics)

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