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Core Competencies
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Demonstrates expertise in building and scaling people processes, advising on organisational design, and ensuring compliance with UK employment law. Proven ability to lead HR functions in high-growth environments while maintaining a cohesive employee experience and culture.
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CIPD Level 5CIPD Level 7UK Employment LawPeople Process DesignSenior Generalist HR Experience
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Hard Skills
Organisational DesignPerformance Review CyclesCompensation ManagementEmployee RelationsPolicy DevelopmentTraining Programme DevelopmentPay Process DesignCompliance ManagementInternational Employee SupportSecurity Clearance Management
Soft Skills
Advisory SkillsCommunication SkillsLeadership SkillsCollaboration SkillsCultural Awareness
Certifications & Qualifications
CIPD Level 5CIPD Level 7Chartered Membership
Industry Keywords
High-Growth StartupScale-UpEmployee ExperienceMulti-National CompanyContinuous Residency in the UK
About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Build people processes and ways of working to help the company scale
- Advise the leadership team on organisational design
- Support international growth while ensuring a cohesive employee experience and culture
- Own pay, benefits and equity approach in partnership with finance
- Design and run performance review cycles and support managers
- Own policies, handbooks and contracts and maintain compliance with UK employment law
- Develop continuous professional development and training programmes
- Deliver internal communications and events with the communications and marketing team
- Partner with Talent Acquisition to ensure a seamless candidate experience through recruiting, pre-boarding and onboarding
- Act as a trusted adviser to leadership on people matters including organisational design, compensation, benefits, employee relations and policy
Requirements
What you’ll need- CIPD Level 5 (Associate Diploma) or higher
- Senior generalist HR experience, including acting as the senior people lead in a growing business
- Experience in a high-growth startup or scale-up, ideally in tech
- Strong working knowledge of UK employment law, and confidence handling ER cases on your own
- Experience designing and running pay and performance processes
- A track record of building people processes where little structure existed
- Experience supporting staff who travel internationally
- Experience leading a People function and maintaining culture in a multi-national company
- CIPD Level 7 or Chartered membership
- Role likely requires holding security clearance or willingness to undergo UK security vetting to Security Check (SC) or above
- Continuous residency in the UK for at least 5 years normally required for security vetting
Benefits
Comp & perks- Highly competitive base salary
- Generous equity in EMI share options in a well-funded and growing startup
- 7% employer pension contribution
- Free breakfast and lunch every day; free pizza and beers weekly
- Private health and dental insurance
- Cycle to work scheme
- Relocation support
- Visa sponsorship for extremely strong candidates
- Access to any resources, equipment and training that you need to do your job in a world-class way
- The opportunity to work with and learn from exceptional colleagues with excellent academic experience and deep industry knowledge