Head of People Operations

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

📋 Description

• Oversee the entire employee lifecycle from offer to offboarding for a globally distributed team.

• Manage comprehensive recruiting activities for all open positions.

• Collaborate with hiring managers to identify requirements, implement structured processes, and successfully close candidates.

• Oversee global Employer of Record (EOR) relationships, including Remote.com or similar services.

• Ensure compliant and fair onboarding processes across various countries.

• Create, draft, and update the employee handbook, offer templates, employment contracts, and fundamental people policies.

• Develop and manage compensation structures, pay banding, salary zone oversight, and compensation frameworks.

• Design and implement performance review cycles, goal-setting frameworks, and promotion pathways.

• Address employee relations, conflict resolution, manager coaching, investigations, and exits.

• Guarantee adherence to employment laws across hiring jurisdictions.

• Build and manage the HR Information System (HRIS), Applicant Tracking System (ATS), and people technology stack.

• Collaborate with management on organizational design, headcount strategy, and company culture.

• Create onboarding experiences for new team members.

⛳️ Requirements

• Proven people operations generalist with experience in establishing or significantly expanding an HR function, preferably as the first or sole HR professional in a startup.

• Highly knowledgeable in recruiting, compliance, employee relations, organizational culture, and compensation.

• Experienced in managing global employment through EOR platforms and navigating multi-jurisdictional compliance across Europe and other regions.

• Capable of drafting clear and defensible policies with employees' interests in mind.

• Comfortable working autonomously without a team or fully developed playbook.

• Legal eligibility to work in the candidate’s specified location.

• Visa sponsorship is not currently available.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance.

• Paid time off (including vacation, sick leave, parental leave, etc.) in accordance with local labor laws in the employee’s country of residence.

• Option for fully remote work.

• Preference for overlapping Central European time (CET/CEST).