People Director

About us
Climate X is a purpose-driven technology company, backed by GV (Google Ventures), Western Technologies (early investors in Meta, Google, Palantir), Commerz Ventures, Pale Blue Dot, Deloitte, and other world-class investors. We're a wonderfully diverse, growing team with physical offices in London and New York City.

Demand for Climate X is growing fast, and we need to build our team You'll be at the front of a nascent industry, working as part of a fantastic and diverse team, doing things that you can be proud of. We're excited to have the opportunity to speak with you during this process.

Our mission
To deepen the understanding of our changing planet and inspire meaningful action.

What we do

• We're helping the world become more resilient to the impacts of physical climate risks (including floods, fires, storms and more). In doing so, we help drive positive global impact aligned to many of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals (SDG's).
• Our team builds cutting-edge, peer-reviewed science (incorporating climate projections, remote sensing data) and translates that into financial impacts (to the value of assets or business disruption linked to failure of critical infrastructure) that our customers in the financial services industry use to identify, manage and mitigate those risks.
• Climate X's customers include the world's largest banks, asset managers and insurance companies including CBRE, Standard Chartered, Virgin Money and Federated Hermes, as well as a partnership ecosystem that includes Deloitte, Capgemini and AWS. Combined, they manage over $6.5 trillion of assets.
• Customers choose us thanks to our ecosystem of products that help solve real human problems and drive tangible business benefits. They love our customer-centric mindset, as well as our pace of innovation in the market.

THE IMPACT YOU'LL OWN
The successful candidate will have experience working for a fast-growth high performance company and thrive on challenge, ownership, and growth with the autonomy to build the infrastructure that will engender a world-class employee experience.

Reporting directly to our General Manager, you will have a defining and important role that will shape the company's culture, values, and workforce strategy as we undergo rapid growth.

Own the end-to-end employee journey, designing and implementing initiatives that create a frictionless, inclusive, and engaging experience, driving high retention, strong engagement, and internal mobility. If you believe you can deliver what we need in this role but don't meet all the criteria listed below or think there's another area where you add value that we haven't captured, we would still love to hear from you.

People Strategy & Organisational Design

• Build and execute a scalable, best-in-class people and workforce strategy across all levels of the organisation.
• Ensure processes, standards, and policies are consistent, compliant, and enable a safe, supportive, and high-performing workplace.
• Manage the People function's P&L and resource planning; scale the team and capabilities in line with business growth.

Talent Acquisition & Employer Brand

• Strengthen Climate X's employer brand; act as a visible ambassador to attract world-class, diverse talent.
• Partner with hiring teams to optimise recruitment processes, maximise vacancy visibility, and minimise bias across sourcing, selection, and evaluation.
• Build and maintain an AI-driven and efficient forward-looking talent pipeline.

Culture, Experience & Engagement

• Align leadership & drive a high-performance, high-reward culture.
• Own the end-to-end employee journey, designing and implementing initiatives that create a frictionless, inclusive, and engaging experience, driving high retention, strong engagement, and internal mobility.

Learning, Development & Performance

• Develop and deliver structured learning and development programmes.
• Create frameworks that support continuous growth, capability building, and leadership development.

People Operations & Analytics

• Oversee people operations and workforce management, ensuring compliance, accuracy, and great service levels.
• Produce data-driven insights, dashboards, and early-warning indicators to guide decision-making and identify organisational risks.

ESSENTIAL SKILLS

• Demonstrable experience working in a similarly high growth role or evidence that you're ready to take your responsibilities to the next level
• Evidence that you have led and significantly contributed to the deployment or development of world-class people strategies
• You've cultivated authentic culture and values across the pillars of people, diversity and inclusion
• The ability to foster meaningful relationships across all levels of the company, relate well with others, listen effectively, and help employees at all levels achieve their development goals
• Familiarity with strategic planning, including compensation practices, data analysis, organisational diagnosis, and development of capacity plans
• Resourceful and able to find creative solutions, thinking beyond current systems and approaches while recognising the impact of decisions and actions on the entire organisation
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills; able to partner effectively with a variety of internal and external stakeholders, including expectation setting

DESIRABLE SKILLS

• Background in organisational psychology or behavioural science, enabling deeper insight into motivation, culture, and performance design.
• Prior experience in climate-tech, sustainability, or impact-driven organisations, with an understanding of purpose-led workforce dynamics.
• Experience with compensation benchmarking or designing progressive benefits frameworks, including modern, inclusive benefits.

BENEFITS
Contribute to a business making purposeful impact related to climate change

Monthly training & conference budget to help you upskill and develop your career (£1,000 per year)

6 monthly appraisals and 12 monthly pay reviews

Pension contribution scheme

Hybrid working (3 days/week in office)

Mental Health and Wellbeing support via Oliva

25 days holiday, plus Bank Holidays, annual 3-day Christmas-closure, and half day on your birthday (36.5 days total)

Optional quarterly socials, dinners, and fun nights out

A fully stocked supply of snacks, fruit, and refreshments for the days when you are in the office

Cycle to work scheme via gogeta

Enhanced maternity and paternity

Pawternity

Dog friendly office (official residence of Alfie, Chief Mischief Officer)

EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES
Climate X are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees and welcome applications from individuals of all backgrounds.