Head of People

**About us**

At Perlego, there are over 100 of us working hard to make education accessible to all. In this digital age, we believe that anyone should be able to learn anything at any time. Knowledge should be more accessible, not locked behind sky-high price tags.

Over the past 5 years, our goal has been to support students across the UK & Europe to access quality books. We've just raised our $50million Series B funding round, and the next stage of Perlego is two fold: 1) expand our support to students globally, and 2) build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and more effectively.

**What we’re looking for**

An experienced Head of People to play a pivotal role in shaping and building our culture of performance whilst maintaining a happy and healthy team. You will have an ability to switch with ease between, doing, leading and advising, whilst facing challenging situations head-on with optimism, you don’t sweat the small stuff. You will partner closely with our leadership and Founder, Gauthier to build a founder-led culture that encompasses both our Founder’s vision alongside best practices.

**How we work together**

We work in a matrix structure and we organise ourselves into cross-functional tribes working together on common goals, with each tribe focusing on a specific domain and including all the necessary roles and skills to deliver on our objectives.

You will lead the People Team as part of our enabler tribe and be an important member of our extended leadership team, Domain Head. You will report to our COO with a dotted line to the CEO.

**What you’ll do**:

- **People Strategy & Ownership: Own the the full people and talent lifecycle**, be responsible for the overall journey from awareness & acquisition through to exit and referral.
- **Talent**: responsible for evolving our employer brand, awareness and hiring processes. _Includes managing the agreed hiring plan and budget._
- **People Operations**: responsible for the end-to-end people operating system that enables an efficient and smooth experience for both employees and our G&A team. _Includes owning payroll, compliance and legal within the people space._
- **People Engagement**: develop and own the engagement strategy and plans across the company
- **Reward & Compensation**: in collaboration with the Finance Director and COO, develop a compensation and reward structure that aligns that align to the people strategy, yet fits within the business and financial plan.
- **Org design**: Partner with the COO on our ever-evolving organisational structure to allow us to reach our business goals
- **Define** and own the people team roadmap and quarterly planning, making prioritisation decisions using key metrics and insights (both internally and externally)
- Proactively provide useful and actionable data to help guide decision-making, allowing the company to scale effectively and efficiently, and create a better working environment and engaged culture

**Management**
- **Manage and coach a team of three in the people & talent team** - a People Ops Specialist and People Partner, People & Talent Partner - building a high-performing and engaged team

**Business partnering**
- Act as a strategic thought partner and coach to leaders across the business to help us scale the business, specifically in our financial mission to become profitable over the next 2-years
- Act as the go-to person for people related concerns, grievances or issues across the business

**Requirements**:
**It’s the perfect role for you if you**:

- Experience as a Head of People in a fast-paced organisation with constant change
- Believe in the power of a Performance-based and focused culture
- Have exceptional communication and relationship-building skills
- Commercially minded, you understand how people link to business outcomes and can confidently make this link to inform daily decisions
- You are comfortable with financials and data, you proactively and regularly analyse data and use this to inform decision-making
- A team player, but also unafraid to challenge others’ ways of thinking
- A creative thinker and problem solver, who develops innovative ideas and solutions to business problems
- Open to new ideas, knowledge and open to giving and receiving direct feedback
- **️ It’s a plus if you have**:

- Scaled companies from 100-300
- Built a performance culture and have data to back up the impact
- Experience facilitating exec and leadership workshops
- Coaching accreditations

**What success looks like for this role in 12 months**

In 3 months you will have:

- Built strong and deep relationships with our executive team (CEO, COO, CPO, VP Eng, Finance Director, CTO & CSO)
- Led an effective salary review that is within budget and optimises for rewarding high-performance
- Support on org structure changes with mínimal disruption to performance and engagement

In 6 months you will have:

- Guided the People & Talent