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About the Role

We are looking for a hands-on People Director to own our people strategy and shape the culture, performance, and growth of an organization focused on philanthropy. This is a 50/50 role balancing strategic advisory to leadership with operational execution, including overseeing payroll, compliance, and HR processes. You will lead a distributed team of four and report directly to the COO.

Responsibilities

• Set the direction for the full people agenda, spanning strategy to daily operations.
• Act as a trusted advisor, coach, and sounding board to the COO, CEO, and senior leadership team on people and culture matters.
• Lead change initiatives to ensure teams are structured for agility and impact during organizational scaling.
• Coach and support managers in performance management and oversee learning and development.
• Oversee end-to-end hiring and onboarding processes to ensure a high-quality candidate and new-joiner experience.
• Design and oversee competitive, equitable global compensation and benefits frameworks.
• Serve as the key point of contact for employee relations and ensure compliance with legal obligations in the UK, US, and Germany.
• Lead, develop, and inspire a distributed team of four.
• Maintain the Headcount Model and People Budget, provide performance data, lead workforce planning, and drive process improvements, including through technology and AI.

Requirements

• Senior generalist HR experience in lean environments (start-ups, agile SMEs, or lean non-profits).
• Scrappy approach to delivering results without corporate budgets or large teams.
• Deep, practical knowledge of employment law, payroll, and compliance across the UK and US (German experience is a plus).
• Proven ability to move fluidly between high-level organizational strategy and hands-on operational delivery.
• Demonstrated experience coaching, influencing, and partnering with C-suite leaders.
• Comfort with people data and analytics to drive decisions and measure HR initiative effectiveness.
• Experience leading organizational change in complex, distributed environments.
• Exceptional emotional intelligence with the ability to build trust and navigate sensitive employee issues.
• Must be within commutable distance of London for 1-2 days per week in the office.
• Comfort working across time zones.
• Willingness to travel for global offsites (once per year), team meetings (at least once per year), and to visit US teams (at least once per year).

Skills

• Strategic HR leadership
• Organizational change management
• Manager enablement
• Talent acquisition and onboarding
• Total rewards design
• Employee relations and compliance
• People team leadership
• Operational excellence
• Workforce planning
• Process improvement
• Use of technology and AI in HR

Location

• London, UK (hybrid)

Work Type

• Hybrid
• Full-time

Experience Level

• Senior

Salary/Compensations

• £90,000 - £95,000

Benefits

• Competitive, equitable global compensation and benefits frameworks

About the Company

• Founders Pledge empowers entrepreneurs to do immense good with their charitable giving.
• Community of over 2,200 members has pledged nearly $13.6B and donated $1.8B+ to the charitable sector in 45+ countries.
• Provides end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a global network of experts.
• Helps tech leaders become strategic philanthropists.
• Members include founders and leaders behind companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.
• Focuses on deploying capital where it can achieve the greatest impact, guided by evidence, careful analysis, and long-term thinking.
• A diverse team from charitable and commercial backgrounds who believe amazing things can happen when tackling problems together.
• Building a learning-driven advisory environment.

Equal Opportunity

• Proud to be an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at Founders Pledge.
• Seek people with different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds, who share our drive to understand and solve complex social challenges.
• Do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
• Committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace where everyone can do their best work.