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Fractional HR leadership
for growing businesses.

I’m Sarah Sheikh Jauhar. I help founders handle compliance, compensation, and tough people decisions—and do the work to move the business forward.

Sarah Sheikh Jauhar
Sarah Sheikh JauharFormer VP of People, Tropic

Companies I’ve worked with

HR expertise

Strategic advice. Hands-on delivery.

01

HR foundations & compliance

Handbooks, policies, onboarding, offboarding, and HR operations for growing and multi-state teams.

Work with employment counsel where legal interpretation or specialist advice is needed.

02

Organization design & change

Reorganizations, layoffs, reporting structures, and change communication—planned carefully and delivered with empathy.

03

Compensation & promotions

Compensation strategy, salary bands, benchmarking, and clear promotion criteria.

04

Performance & succession

Performance reviews, calibrations, manager coaching, and succession plans for critical roles.

05

Employee relations & investigations

Discreet workplace investigations, structured interviews, documentation, and clear next steps.

06

Efficient systems & practical AI

Automate onboarding, recruiting coordination, reporting, and follow-up. Keep sensitive decisions with people.

Selected client work

Tropic

VP of People

Built recruiting, compensation, and performance systems during rapid growth and the company’s Series B.

TaskRabbit

People operations & culture

Led people operations across the US and Europe, including international compliance and the transition to remote work.

What clients say

Dave Campbell

Dave Campbell

CEO & Co-Founder, Tropic

“As CEO I relied on Sarah heavily to help guide us through key inflection points. In a people function, there is no substitute for experience, and Sarah has it.”
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“Sarah Jauhar is a truly excellent people leader. She brought our people infrastructure from zero to full productivity and maturity very quickly. She made hard decisions when they were needed, but did so with transparency and empathy you don't typically see. As CEO I relied on Sarah heavily to help guide us through key inflection points. In a people function, there is no substitute for experience, and Sarah has it. I will happily attempt to recruit her to join my next company.”
Isaiah Crossman

Isaiah Crossman

Partner, Repeatability · Former CRO, Tropic

“Sarah was always my first call in any tricky situation. She has the perfect balance of business-minded and empathetic to every person at the company at the same time.”
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“Sarah is an amazing people leader. I learned a ton from her as we worked through genuinely hard people situations together at Tropic. Sarah was always my first call in any tricky situation. She has the perfect balance of business-minded and empathetic to every person at the company at the same time. Definitely who you want in your corner when you're either scaling or problem solving.”
Rakesh Tondon

Rakesh Tondon

2x YC Founder · CEO of Le Tote & Dr. Treat (both acquired)

“She is the rare kind of executive partner who earns your trust quickly and never gives you a reason to question it.”
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“Sarah was the People leader I relied on as Le Tote navigated some of its most demanding growth phases — building the infrastructure to scale rapidly while keeping the team aligned and the culture intact. When we began the due diligence process with Lord & Taylor, she was a critical partner to the executive team, helping us prepare the people side of the business for one of the most complex transactions a company can go through. She is the rare kind of executive partner who earns your trust quickly and never gives you a reason to question it.”
Dr. Vassily Eliopoulos

Dr. Vassily Eliopoulos

Co-Founder & Chief Medical Officer, Longevity Health

“Sarah built our People function from the ground up — performance reviews, compensation benchmarking, onboarding, regulatory compliance, and a culture framework that genuinely defines how we operate every day.”
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“Sarah built our People function from the ground up — performance reviews, compensation benchmarking, onboarding, regulatory compliance, and a culture framework that genuinely defines how we operate every day. What set her apart is how she worked: she used Claude Code and AI agents to automate large parts of our onboarding process, things that would have taken weeks of manual effort. Sarah didn't feel like an HR person. She felt like someone who truly understood business problems, how work actually gets done, and who was actively teaching our team how to use AI well — not just ChatGPT, but real, substantive automation. She made it ours, and she made us better.”

Ways to work with me

Practical AI for HR

I use AI to automate routine HR work and teach teams to use it well.

Less administration. More time for leadership, coaching, and sensitive people decisions.

Read my approach to AI in HR
Sarah in Austin

Meet Sarah

Senior HR experience. Hands-on support.

I’ve been the first HR hire, led international people operations, supported acquisition integration, and served as VP of People at a growing technology company.

Through PeopleOS, I help founders and leadership teams solve people challenges and build the HR systems they need.

14+ years in HR & people leadershipBased in Austin · Working with distributed teams
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your HR needs

Tell me what’s happening in your business. We’ll discuss where HR support would help.

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