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About the Role
Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams and is growing fast. This role is a senior individual contributor focused on clean operations within the People function, managing payroll, global mobility, PEOs, commission and equity administration, and HRIS.
Responsibilities
- Own payroll controls and monthly validation across UK payroll, PEOs, and other employment models, with clean reconciliation to Finance each month.
- Run visa and mobility operations end-to-end, including sponsorships, relocations, compliance, right-to-work controls, and coordination with immigration advisers.
- Manage commission review, approvals, exceptions, and payment accuracy each cycle, reconciling commission data between sales systems, Finance, and payroll.
- Own equity grant administration, including approvals, documentation, vesting schedules, leaver events, exercises, cap table reconciliation, and employee communications.
- Build and improve people workflows in Humans, Ashby, and connected systems, using automation to remove manual steps from pay reviews, promotion packs, onboarding, and routine queries.
- Own onboarding, probation, employment changes, transfers, parental leave, and offboarding end-to-end, coordinating access, equipment, payroll, and documentation across People, IT, Finance, and hiring managers.
Requirements
- 5+ years of People Operations or HR generalist experience in a scaling technology business or high-growth scaleup, with meaningful hands-on work in payroll, mobility, PEOs, and benefits.
- Track record of building and running multi-country people processes from the ground up.
- Confidence owning payroll controls, global mobility operations, and equity administration across multiple jurisdictions.
- Strong data literacy and experience with HRIS platforms, payroll systems, and ATS integrations, with a bias toward automation over manual work.
- Clear written communicator who can produce clean documentation and audit-ready records.
- Experience independently owning multi-country payroll, mobility, and equity through a scale-up's growth phase.
- Familiarity with PEO relationships, renewals, and service management.
- Experience with commission administration and pooling.
- Ability to stay organized, control workload, and know when to push back and when to escalate.
- High standards of accuracy, timeliness, and data integrity.
- Ability to manage sensitive information and ensure payments, visas, and equity records are handled properly.
Skills
- Payroll
- Global Mobility
- PEOs
- Commission Administration
- Equity Administration
- HRIS
- Automation
- Data Literacy
- Documentation
- Audit Trails
Location
- London
Work Type
- Office-first
- In-office
Experience Level
- Senior
About the Company
- Wordsmith is building the legal operations platform for in-house teams.
- We believe in-house legal is becoming one of the most important functions in the AI era.
- Our goal is to help legal teams move faster, reduce unnecessary external counsel spend, and become a function the business can run with.
- More than 500 companies, including Financial Times, Safelite, Trip.com, Canva, Starling, and Sage, use Wordsmith.
- Backed by $100M from Index Ventures, General Catalyst, Highland Europe, and others, we are building one of the defining companies in legal AI.