People Performance Manager

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

📋 Description

• Act as the primary point of contact for a group of leaders regarding matters related to personnel, performance decisions, team dynamics, and challenging discussions.

• Collaborate on the development of progression, performance criteria, evaluations, and recognition frameworks.

• Manage the entire process of performance management, difficult conversations, employee exits, and organizational restructuring.

• Leverage AI and automation to enhance operational workflows.

• Transform recurring issues faced by employees and managers into optimized processes, tools, guidance, or self-service options.

• Assess the effectiveness of processes and redesign them as necessary.

• Mentor and provoke thought among leaders regarding personnel decisions, employment legislation, performance, potential, compensation, and career progression.

• Ensure uniformity across the designated portfolio.

• Create people frameworks tailored for a non-hierarchical, player-coach organizational structure.

• Report directly to the Performance Service Manager.

⛳️ Requirements

• Take real ownership of personnel decisions, including hiring, performance evaluations, and exit strategies, either directly or by advising leaders.

• Capable of managing difficult discussions while balancing efficiency with compassion.

• Experience in fostering or contributing to a high-performance culture.

• Ability to challenge and sway leadership decisions effectively.

• Comfort in navigating without a predefined guide in a rapidly evolving company environment.

• Strong first-principles thinking skills with the capability to identify root causes, assess competing factors, and foresee second-order consequences.

• Proficiency with Notion, automation, and AI tools.

• Excellent written communication skills.

• Experience in employment relations within the UK, Europe, or the US is preferred.

• Familiarity with working across multiple countries, including employer of record arrangements, is advantageous.

• Experience in compensation and benchmarking, including salary banding, pay review cycles, and market data, is desirable.

• CIPD qualification is not a prerequisite.

• A background in HR is not mandatory.

🏝️ Benefits

• Stock options, providing everyone with a stake in our mission.

• 25 days of holiday in addition to public holidays.

• Option to exchange public holidays for days of personal preference.

• Day off for your birthday.

• Remote-first and flexible work arrangements.

• Defined core working hours.

• No internal meetings scheduled for Friday afternoons.

• Up to GBP1,200 or EUR1,400 each year for remote setup expenses.

• Up to GBP150 or EUR170 per month dedicated to wellbeing.