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Head of People

NEW

London, UKFull-timeGlobal

📊 Executive🏠 On-site

ActivePosted within the last 30 days

Job Description

[AI-summarized by JobStash]

You will build and scale the end-to-end people function during rapid international growth. You will partner with senior leaders to attract develop and retain talent; coach managers and support their professional development; design and run hiring onboarding payroll and compliance processes; own people systems deliver reliable HR data and lead compensation benchmarking and rewards strategy. You will ensure employment law and GDPR compliance across jurisdictions and build scalable operations for a fast-growing company.

Requirements

●Led a People function through rapid growth
●Design and implement 12-month people strategies and manage payroll and employment contracts
●Identify operational gaps and design scalable HR solutions without a pre-existing playbook
●Exceptional attention to detail and a zero-error mindset
●Experience managing employment legal and operational complexity across the UK Ireland and UAE
●Experience managing and mentoring HR teams
●International mobility experience such as relocations visas or cross-border secondments (nice to have)
●Experience in regulated environments such as financial services fintech or capital markets (nice to have)

Responsibilities

●Partner with leaders to develop strategies to manage motivate and retain key talent
●Ensure high performance remains central to the business as it scales
●Coach managers to develop as leaders and support team professional development
●Partner with Finance and leadership to build and execute hiring plans aligned with priorities budget and organisational design
●Design growth approaches that balance speed with healthy structured operations
●Build and optimise onboarding benefits and compliance processes
●Manage international employment setup including hiring payroll and legal compliance across jurisdictions
●Own people systems strategy and lead operations to deliver reliable HR data and scalable processes
●Lead compensation benchmarking and rewards strategy
●Maintain compliance with employment law and GDPR across all jurisdictions

Benefits & Perks

●Generous stock options
●Premium private healthcare
●26 days annual leave plus birthday off and regional bank holidays
●Enhanced parental leave
●MacBook screens and additional equipment
●Access to salary sacrifice schemes covering childcare groceries EV cars tech pensions bikes and subscriptions
●Modern centrally located offices in London Belfast Dundalk and Dubai

Tech Stack

payrollhiringHRISrewardscomplianceinternational mobilitypeople systemscompensation benchmarkingtalent managementpeople-operations