Director of Performance & Workforce Operations in Austin, Texas at Rex

Rex is a privately held ecosystem of entrepreneurial ventures led by Peter Rex, spanning real estate private equity, technology, insurance, and AI. We build businesses and investment platforms that generate both exceptional financial returns and meaningful societal impact. At the core of our strategy is investor engagement: attracting aligned capital partners who share our long-term vision. We are building the most compelling investor-facing ecosystem in the private markets. The role offers exposure to a uniquely diverse platform, combining institutional-quality real estate and high-growth tech ventures, all aligned under a singular mission-driven vision.

Our mission is to catalyze human flourishing through stewardship, serving people in all nations. We seek a transcendent impact, second to none, crossing geographies and making a permanent mark on history.

We aim to uplift investors, foster flourishing families, create enduring trust, and contribute to a more beautiful world through our investments, products and services, and new ventures.

Our investments are primarily in real estate, with additional allocations to tech, energy, and alternatives, employing a downside-protected, long-term approach to investing. We are grounded in timeless morals and seek to preserve and grow both investor capital and our own.

We serve a diverse ecosystem that includes:

Our businesses, with over 500 employees, are primarily throughout Texas and Florida, but we aim to expand globally with our products and services, impacting people in all countries.

Rex is hiring a Director of Performance & Workforce Operations to architect and enforce excellence across a ~600-person ecosystem spanning Rex’s high-volume property management sites and its tech, insurance, and private investment businesses. This is not a corporate HR role. It is a hands-on builder role for an operator who jumps into the details, knows how to lead and run an operation, and tells the business what it can do, not what it can’t. This role is anchored by three core mandates. First, own performance across the ecosystem: build the talent systems, recruiting, and training that raise the bar, deploy forced ranking and bell curve reviews, cut non-top performers, and hire and cultivate only top performers. Hold leaders accountable with board-level discipline, starting with your own operation and compliance, tracked transparently through metrics and input goals. Second, build a lean, AI-native operating engine, using agentic workflows and self-service systems to eliminate manual work in onboarding, benefits, compliance, and documentation. Third, command benefits and compliance: audit brokers and TPAs like a CFO, evaluate self-insurance, level-funding, and captives to cut healthcare costs without compromising care, and manage multi-site compliance and employee relations with the foresight that keeps outside legal spend near zero. The ideal candidate has 7 to 12 years of experience and is a hands-on builder with extreme ownership, decisive judgment, and plain-English clarity over corporate jargon. They are not an advisor, consultant, or administrator. The best operations leaders jump into the details, and that firsthand knowledge is what informs their leadership. They bring real HR depth but break the mold: a business operator first, never a policy cop or red-tape administrator. They hold the highest standards of performance, beginning with themselves, and are data-driven in everything they run. Committed in their bones to building a team marked by excellence. Zero tolerance for politics, gossip, or passive aggression. If you’re proud of your SHRM certification as a badge of honor, this isn’t the role for you. This leader must be deeply aligned with Rex’s corporate values and ethos and with those of Peter Rex, grounded in human dignity, servant leadership, and uncompromised ethics. They are dedicated to building an enduring enterprise that outlasts all of us, an institution that moves humanity forward and catalyzes human flourishing through business. Not for mercenaries. Only for missionaries. Fully remote.

Rex is hiring a Director of Performance & Workforce Operations to translate the ambition of an excellence-driven, AI-native organization into real, system-wide execution across Rex’s high-volume property management sites and its technology, insurance, and private investment businesses. This is a hands-on builder seat for a leader who runs the operation personally and stays in the details, which sharpens their judgment and their leadership. The mandate is to raise talent density, cut cost and friction, and keep the company clean on compliance without letting compliance become the operating philosophy.

This role reports to senior leadership and owns outcomes across performance, workforce systems, benefits, and compliance. You will operate as the connective tissue between executive leadership, site and business unit leaders, finance, and legal counsel, serving as a direct partner to Peter Rex on talent decisions and holding leaders at every level to board-level discipline.

You will start with your own house. Your operation and compliance function will be held to the highest standard in the company, with input goals and metrics tracked and reported transparently so leaders can see exactly how you perform. From there you will build the performance engine: scorecards, calibration, forced ranking and bell curve reviews, and fast, well-documented processes for cutting non-top performers and resolving underperformance. You will build the recruiting and training infrastructure that fills every seat with a top performer, and you will cultivate the talent already here with clear standards and timelines. You will deploy agentic workflows and self-service systems that eliminate manual work across onboarding, benefits inquiries, compliance checks, and documentation, so the team stays lean and capable.

You will also own the economics and risk of the workforce: auditing brokers and TPAs with a CFO’s eye, evaluating self-insurance, level-funding, and captive structures, and managing multi-site compliance and employee relations with the documentation and foresight that keep outside legal spend near zero.

This is a hands-on, high-impact role for a business operator with real HR depth who enables line leaders rather than polices them, and who is committed to building an institution that will outlast every one of us. Must be missionary to the bone.

Catalyze Human Flourishing through our products and services and to elevate and further humanity in all our business dealings.

Base Salary: Commensurate with experience and market standards

Opportunity for performance-based bonus and/or equity in deals and funds

Benefits:

Applicants will be required to pass a background check prior to their first day. Applicants will also be required to execute a comprehensive confidentiality and non-disclosure agreement prior to start.