Head of People
Light
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: London • United Kingdom
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About the role
- Lead the People team: Hire and lead a commercially minded, analytical People team with exceptional emotional intelligence.
- Performance Reviews: Design and run a transparent, impactful process that helps high-performers thrive and keeps expectations clear.
- Compensation Strategy: Build and execute a compensation strategy designed to help Light win: competitive, fair and transparent.
- Talent Strategy: Lead Talent Acquisition team on an ambitious hiring plan to add ~60 people to the team across both departments and geographies (Europe and US) in the next 12 months.
- People Operations: Build scalable people processes including onboarding, employee support, and off-boarding.
- Leadership Partnering: Support Light’s leadership team with org design, people development, and building best practices.
- Culture and Starsite: Shape our culture, holding up a mirror to our leadership team.
- Employment Compliance: Ensure Light operates compliantly across multiple jurisdictions.
- Office management: Oversee office operations across Copenhagen, London, and New York.
Requirements
- Proven experience in a People or Talent role in high-growth tech, ideally as Head of People or in another strategic People role.
- Strong business acumen and first principles thinking.
- High agency and bias for action.
- Proven ability to build and scale people systems.
- Exceptional EQ and influence skills.
- Working knowledge of UK and European employment compliance.
- Experience working in multinational and distributed teams is a plus.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Petra for physical health
- weekly one-to-ones
- training budget
- unlimited vacation
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard Skills & Tools
people operationstalent acquisitioncompensation strategyperformance reviewsonboarding processesemployee supportoff-boarding processesorg designemployment compliancescalable people systems
Soft Skills
emotional intelligencebusiness acumenfirst principles thinkinghigh agencybias for actioninfluence skillsleadershipteam collaborationcultural shapingstrategic thinking