Head of People

Bombinate is looking for a Head of People to join our growing team. As Head of People, you will be responsible for partnering closely with our co-founders, Mana & Elliott, as well as leaders across the company, to attract, develop, and retain the best talent in the world. This role combines building our team (recruiting) with the responsibility to own the full lifecycle of our teammates (Human Resources).

What will the job involve?

• Structure the HR department and define the HR strategy to ensure employee engagement, and a healthy workplace
• Own our recruiting efforts, including developing systems and actively recruiting candidates.
• Own our performance management systems, including performance reviews, compensation strategy, manager training, and more.
• Own our strategy for distributed work, including a geographically distributed talent strategy, collaboration, and culture building efforts.
• Own our inclusion & diversity efforts to build a team that reflects the diversity of the community we serve.
• Own people operations, including onboarding, compliance, payroll, and benefits.
• Train managers on building and leading world class teams with a strong culture of performance and learning and development
• Drive a culture of performance and support managers to implement Performance Development Plan to develop talents
• Help to establish and improve full employee lifecycle (on-boarding, performance reviews, internal communications, off-boarding)
• Support multiple business areas with their recruitment needs, being quick to understand the demands of different teams
• Constantly strive to improve the quality, time and cost efficiency of the recruiting function

Requirements

What experience, skills and traits do I need?

One of your defining professional aspects is your ability to operate and scale a team of 0 (just you) to 10 (fully staffed People team). You are excited to handle all aspects of this org — everything from designing a compensation strategy to sending out an offer letter and managing benefits selection — to eventually building out a full team to support you.

• 5+ years of relevant work experience in HR at a high-growth tech startup
• Experience working in a stand-alone position or setting up a HR department is also desirable
• You are methodical, detailed orientated and rigorous to ensure strong foundations of the HR department
• An understanding of and an enthusiasm for start up and strong business growth culture
• Leadership: easily move others to action by planning, motivating, organizing and being accountable
• Confident with both excel and power point reporting to run regular analysis
• You have designed systems to manage performance reviews
• You have developed compensation strategies
• You have led and managed recruiting systems
• You have led HR efforts
• You are passionate about company culture, performance, feedback and growth
• You have built and managed teams in HR/recruiting
• You are comfortable shifting gears from high level strategy to tactical work on a frequent basis.

Bonus Points:

• Experience within a marketplace
• Experience or exposure to VC/PE backed businesses
• Experience leading and building the HR function within a rapidly growing startup, understanding how to navigate the challenges of scaling from Seed to Series A, B and beyond

Benefits

What’s in it for me?

Bombinate offers a number of team-wide benefits and perks but if there’s something that’s important to you that’s not on this list, let us know.

Paid Holidays

25 days holiday. Increase by 1 day with each year at Bombinate

Bombinate Credit

Generous Bombinate credit allowance to help you bring your wardrobe & home to life + 20% employee discount.

Flexible hours

We trust you to work the schedule that’s most productive for you and your teammates.

Remote work policy

We believe in remote teams so you'll have the opportunity to work from home or wherever you want. The Bombinate team is currently spread across (🇨🇭 🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇹 🇪🇸 🇩🇪 🇵🇹).

Thinking big

We’d like you to be part of one or two days a year when we take time out to think about social trends and how Bombinate should grow as the world evolves around us.

Your perfect setup

Mac/Windows, Mechanical Keyboard, Plugins, IDE. You need it, we'll get it.

Team Socials

Regular team socials:

• Weekly breakfast meetings.
• Drinks on Thursdays
• Monthly Team dinners

Coaching & Mentoring to help you with your development.

Our company’s growing quickly, and we’ll give you the opportunity to do the same.

At Bombinate, you’ll have access to a number of professional development opportunities so that you can keep up with the company’s evolving needs and grow your career along the way.

Spacious & Modern Office

Bombinate's HQ is located in the heart of Shoreditch in the Biscuit building. We're lucky to have the likes of Brat, Padella, Allpress, Dishoom & many others as neighbours.

Coffee's on us

We have our very own barista who will make sure to provide you with the best cappuccinos & espressos in town.

How to Apply

Sound like a good fit for you? Please email us at careers@bombinate.com and:

• Include "Head Of People" in your subject line (it'll help us to sort through the emails).
• Send us 50 to 150 words explaining why we'll be glad to have you on board one year from now.
• Send along links that best showcase the relevant things you've built and done, e.g. your portfolio, LinkedIn, instagram.