Head of Performance

Performance management at Bolt is not an HR process. It is the mechanism that decides where the company invests in people: who gets stretch assignments, who gets promoted, whose work gets recognized and rewarded. Done badly, it produces rubber-stamped ratings that tell nobody anything. Done well, it becomes a decision-making tool the whole business trusts, and the reason strong performers know their work is seen.

This role owns that mechanism end to end. Reporting to the VP of People & Workplace, you will build the analytical infrastructure that lets Bolt make faster, better-informed decisions about talent, and you will be the person senior leaders come to when they need a defensible answer on where performance is strongest and what it means commercially.

• Design the mechanics that separate real performance signal from rating inflation and manager bias, including analytical detection of anomalies in rating patterns across teams and functions.
• Build the link between individual goals and the metrics the business actually runs on, so a goal cascade produces something a CFO would recognise as accountability, not aspiration.
• Own calibration as a governance function: ensure ratings are consistent, evidence-based, and fair across the organisation, and that the outcome holds up when a manager pushes back.
• Build the reporting that gives leadership a real-time view of performance across the organisation, and turn it into recommendations on promotion, reward, and investment in talent.
• Sit in the room for org design and workforce planning decisions and bring the performance data that changes the outcome.
• Hold managers to a high standard of honest, differentiated assessment. This means being comfortable telling a VP their team's ratings don't hold up to scrutiny.

• You have a background in Strategy consulting (MBB or equivalent) combined with time operating inside a high-growth technology or consumer business.
• You know the difference between a recommendation and something that survives contact with a live organization.
• You build defensible analytical cases and present them to people who push back hard.
• You are fluent with data. You can build the model that shows the business consequence of a talent decision yourself, without waiting on an analyst.
• You have influenced C-suite level stakeholders directly, with your own analysis.
• Your instinct when a system underperforms is to fix the mechanics and the data, not to add training or communication.

• Accelerate your professional growth with unique career opportunities.
• Enjoy a rewarding salary and stock options, knowing that as Bolt succeeds, so do you.
• Take care of your physical and mental health with our wellness perks.
• Celebrate 5 years at Bolt with a 1-month paid sabbatical to recharge.
• Connect with colleagues at annual company events and smaller team gatherings.
• Balance flexibility and in-person collaboration with our hybrid model, including at least 12 monthly in-office days.