Head of People – Culture

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Belgium.

📋 Description

• Take full ownership of the comprehensive hiring process, encompassing role portfolio management, search strategies, pipeline health, and senior/hard-to-fill positions.

• Implement swift, transparent, and evidence-based hiring procedures with continuous feedback at each stage.

• Uphold a high standard for hiring A-players while cultivating an employer brand that draws in top talent.

• Manage employment setups across Europe, including contracts, EOR/entity decisions, and compliant onboarding practices.

• Oversee core people operations with the support of HR and external partners, including payroll coordination, social security administration, absence management, and policy implementation.

• Develop an effective onboarding process that establishes clear 90-day expectations from day one.

• Establish compensation bands by role and level, benchmarked against European hiring markets, with a commitment to transparency.

• Implement a streamlined performance rhythm that includes goal-setting, feedback, and development discussions.

• Foster development through strengths-based stretch assignments and outcome-focused promotion pathways.

• Intentionally cultivate the company culture in a remote, multi-national environment.

• Mentor and provide confidential advice to leadership on team structuring and organizational decisions.

• Lead the people function with an AI-first approach by utilizing modern tools for sourcing, screening support, documentation, and analytics.

⛳️ Requirements

• You have previously managed the people function during this specific growth phase: transitioning from a small core team to a multi-national organization.

• You have directly closed senior-level hires and can articulate your strategies for finding, winning, and retaining candidates throughout the process.

• Proven experience in establishing or managing employment in various EU countries.

• Understanding of when to utilize an EOR versus establishing an entity, including the associated costs.

• Experience in constructing or revamping a compensation and equity framework from the ground up.

• A genuine player-coach mentality, with hands-on management and team-building only as the volume necessitates.

• An AI-first working approach with measurable impacts on your work methods.

• Proficient in professional English.

• Background in healthtech, life sciences, or another regulated industry (preferred).

• Experience guiding a company through a financing round and subsequent team scaling (preferred).

• Familiarity with Belgian employment and social security regulations (preferred).

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work opportunities within the EU, with a preference for candidates based in Belgium.

• A player-coach role: real ownership from day one, rather than managing someone else's decisions.

• Direct access and collaboration with the Founder & CEO and the leadership team — you will be regarded as a co-architect of the organization.

• An efficient and transparent hiring process that provides feedback at every step, completing in weeks instead of months.

• Join a high-velocity, mission-driven team that emphasizes documentation, rapid movement, and takes AI leverage as a foundational aspect of every role.

• Opportunity to build the people function of a healthtech scale-up from the ground up across multiple countries.