By the RoleDawn team · Published · Updated
As of October 7, 2026, 34 companies started posting People / HR roles in the last 30 days, including Knix, PayIt and Broadway Ventures. 3 of the job posts call the role "founding" or "first". RoleDawn finds them by checking company career pages every day for a team that is new on their board; the full live list, with a link to every job post, is at roledawn.com/first-hire/people.
| Company | Role posted | Country | Detected | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Knix | Associate People Operations Business Partner | Canada | 2026-10-07 | New on their board |
| PayIt | People Operations Coordinator | United States | 2026-10-07 | New on their board |
| Broadway Ventures | Human Resources Manager | United States | 2026-10-06 | New on their board |
| Help Scout | VP of People | United States | 2026-10-06 | New on their board |
| 9amHealth | Office Specialist (Part-Time) | United States | 2026-10-06 | New on their board |
| Choreo | Head of Change Management Organizational Engagement | Remote / not given | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| Pathstream | Senior Learner Support & Outreach Specialist | Remote / not given | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| UMA Education | Manager, Career Services | Remote / not given | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| Vera Institute of Justice | Senior HR Generalist, People, Place & Culture | United States | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| Technical Assent | Consultant - Workforce Analytics & Human Capital | United States | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| WestCoast Children's Clinic | Training and Programs Assistant | United States | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| Careem | Training & Quality Executive | United Arab Emirates | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| MegaCorp Logistics | Corporate Training Specialist | United States | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| Akido | Grievance Coordinator | United States | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
| Technitask | Organizational Change Manager (Onsite - Regina, Saskatchewan) | Remote / not given | 2026-10-06 | Likely new team · inferred |
Showing the 15 most recent of 34. See the full live list of new People / HR teams →
By the country of the job post: United States (20), Canada (1), United Arab Emirates (1), Portugal (1), Hong Kong (1) and Mexico (1); 6 remote or with no country given.
3 of these companies also started a new Recruiting or Workplace & Admin team in the same 30 days: UMA Education (Workplace & Admin), Akido (Workplace & Admin), WestCoast Children's Clinic (Workplace & Admin).
A first People hire is the buyer for HRIS, payroll, benefits, performance-management and engagement tools. The weeks around the hire are when those decisions get made, which makes the job post a timely, specific reason to reach out. It is a timing signal, not proof of budget.
RoleDawn checks 4,481 company career pages on Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Recruitee and Workday every day, sorts every title into one of 43 role families, and flags a company the first time a People / HR role appears on its board. Each row is labelled "New on their board" or "Likely new team · inferred"; see the full definitions.
RoleDawn keeps the history of every role family each company has posted on its own careers page. "New on their board" means a People / HR role appeared on a board where we had already recorded postings and had never seen that family. "Likely new team · inferred" is an estimate for boards we only recently started tracking. Neither is proof the company never had the role, and a posting is not proof of budget.
Job postings that companies publish on their own Greenhouse, Lever, Ashby, Workable, Recruitee and Workday boards. No LinkedIn scraping and no personal contact data. Staffing agencies and intern, temporary or contractor roles are left out.
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Every tracked careers page is re-read about once a day and this page is rebuilt from the latest data. The "Updated" date at the top shows when.
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