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People Lead

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-14 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead the UK People function for a high-growth startup, partnering with Co-Founders to build an organization where great people do great work and managers genuinely manage.

Role type

Senior People Lead / People Operations Manager

Builds

Scalable People practices, hiring processes, performance management systems, and employee relations frameworks.

Domain

EdTech / Education staffing platform

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | dashboards & analysis | research | client delivery | infrastructure | physical/clinical work

Required skills

Player-coach leadership, performance management, talent acquisition strategy, employee relations, data-driven decision making, systems thinking, change management

Preferred skills

Experience in high-growth startups, ability to handle complex employee investigations, building metrics from scratch

Technologies

HRIS, performance management tools, data analytics platforms

Responsibilities

Line manage a team of 5 across US and UK, coach leaders on performance and difficult conversations, design and evolve hiring processes, lead complex employee grievances and investigations, build meaningful People metrics to identify trends and risks.

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with line management responsibilities

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