Role Overview
The People Operations Manager will build the operating system for the People function, including tools, data, cycles, and lifecycle processes to support hiring, paying, developing, and supporting people across the UK, Belgium, and the US.
What You Will Do
The manager will own the People systems stack, lead payroll migrations, manage EOR and PEO relationships, and use AI and automation to remove manual admin wherever it adds no judgement.
Why It Might Be a Fit
The ideal candidate will have 5+ years of experience in People Operations, including time at a startup or scaleup through hypergrowth, with hands-on experience across multiple countries.
Requirements
- 5+ years in People Operations, including time at a startup or scaleup through hypergrowth, with hands-on experience across multiple countries
- Hands-on experience scaling a People function: you’ve seen what breaks between 50 and 200+ people and helped fix it
- Strong systems thinking: you design processes and tool stacks that hold up as the company grows, not one-off fixes
- Hands-on experience implementing an HRIS (Deel is a big plus) and running at least one people cycle (performance, comp review or onboarding) end to end.
- Comfort working with data: you can build a report leadership trusts, and you notice when the numbers look wrong
Benefits
- Competitive compensation
- Meaningful equity upside
- Hybrid working model with offices in London, Antwerp, and New York
- Direct access to founders and senior leadership
- Work with world-class enterprise clients (Unilever, Google, P&G, Orange, and more)
- Quarterly team offsites where we disconnect, reset, and have fun
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