Director of Culture and Hospitality

Anguleris Technologies · Elgin, IL (HQ) · Full-time · Reports to the CEO

The short version

Anguleris is a 15-year, architect-founded construction technology company and the parent of BIMsmith, Swatchbox, Modlar, Archbase, and Gaudi. We're roughly 90 people across Elgin, Chicago, New York, London, Milan, and Melbourne, and we're on our way to 180. This role exists to make sure that when we get there, we're still a company worth working at.

You will own people at Anguleris: the entire HR function plus the Angulerian experience end to end. How candidates are treated, how new hires land, how the team is paid, supported, and cared for, how visitors are received, and how the culture is protected as we double. Hospitality here is not snacks and swag. It's a discipline, the same instinct that makes a great restaurant or a great architecture firm feel different the moment you walk in. The title says culture and hospitality instead of HR on purpose: the machinery matters, but it exists to serve the people.

Why this role, why now

Most companies lose their soul between 90 and 180 people. The founding culture stops transmitting by osmosis, process starts substituting for judgment, and one day the company is professional, sterile, and forgettable. We are professionalizing without sterilizing, and that doesn't happen by accident. It happens because someone owns it. That's you.

What you'll own

Candidate and hiring experience. Every person who interviews with Anguleris, hired or not, should walk away thinking it was the sharpest, most human hiring process they've been through. You'll partner with hiring managers to keep our talent bar high and our process fast, warm, and honest. You are a guardian of talent density, not a booker of interviews.

Onboarding. New Angulerians should be productive in week one and fluent in the culture by month one. You'll build and run the system that makes that true across five brands, six offices, and every function from sales to software.

The employee experience. Rituals, recognition, all-hands, offsites, anniversaries, the hard weeks and the great ones. You'll design the moments that make people stay, and you'll notice when something's off before it shows up in attrition.

Hospitality, internal and external. How we host clients, manufacturers, and partners at our offices and at trade shows. How the Elgin HQ feels when you walk in. How a customer visit gets planned. You'll set the standard and teach it.

Internal communication. You'll help leadership say things clearly: announcements, changes, wins, losses. No corporate fog. When something matters, people should hear it straight, and they should hear it from us before they infer it.

Human resources for the whole organization. You own the HR function for a team of ~90 across the US, UK, Italy, and Australia, heading to 180. Compensation and benefits, compliance, performance management, employee relations, policies, and the HR systems that hold it all together. The mandate is systems that serve the culture: make us faster, sharper, and clearer, never bureaucratic. When an HR process starts substituting for judgment, you fix the process.

Culture stewardship at scale. Our nine values and our hiring philosophy are written down. Your job is to keep them true. Spot where the lived culture is drifting from the stated one and close the gap, even when that means a hard conversation.

Who does well here

You've led an HR or people function before, ideally in a scaleup or a business where the experience was the product, and you know the craft: employment law, comp, benefits, performance systems, employee relations. But the credential alone won't get you hired. The pattern will:

• You're humble, hungry, and people-smart. All three, no exceptions. You share credit, you don't need to be pushed, and you read a room accurately.
• You have taste. You notice when something is sloppy, generic, or off, whether it's an email, an event, an office, or a farewell message, and you can't leave it that way.
• You have agency. You say "I'll figure it out," not "someone should fix this." You don't wait for perfect instructions.
• You close loops. We hate dropped balls more than we hate mistakes. Follow-through is how trust is built here, and this role runs entirely on trust.
• You're warm and exact at the same time. Direct without being cold. Caring without being soft. Think senior architect, not HR administrator.
• You push brooms. No task is beneath you. You'll set up chairs, restock the kitchen, and greet the delivery driver by name. Cheerfully, without being asked.

What this role is not

• It is not HR-as-paperwork. Yes, you own compliance, benefits, and the administrative machinery, and it needs to run flawlessly. But administration is the floor of this job, not the ceiling. If your instinct is to lead with policy rather than people, this isn't your role.
• It is not event planning with a fancy title. Events are one instrument; the job is the whole orchestra.
• It is not a culture-of-comfort role. We're a professional sports team, not a family. Caring about people and holding a high bar are the same job here, not opposing ones.

Practical details

• Based at our Elgin, IL headquarters, with regular time in Chicago and periodic travel to our New York, London, Milan, and Melbourne offices.
• Reports directly to the CEO.
• Compensation: competitive salary plus performance bonus, commensurate with experience. (Finalize range before posting.)

How to apply

Skip the generic cover letter. Send us a short note answering one question: describe a moment where you made an experience unforgettable for someone (a guest, a new hire, a client, a stranger) and what it cost you to do it. Attach your résumé. That's it.

Anguleris Technologies is an equal opportunity employer. We hire humble, hungry, people-smart builders from every background.