People Experience Specialist, Flash Pack
12 Month Fixed-Term Contract
£37-43.5k
Mid and Senior level
London
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Social adventures for like-minded solo travellers
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Social adventures for like-minded solo travellers
21-100 employees
B2CTravelLifestyleWellbeing
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£37-43.5k
Mid and Senior level
London
More information about location
21-100 employees
B2CTravelLifestyleWellbeing
Company mission
To create one million meaningful friendships across the globe.
Role
Who you are
- You have experience working in or with remote or distributed teams and you understand what good looks like in a remote world with asynchronous ways of working
- You're pragmatic and can decide when something needs a proper long-term fix versus a quick, sensible one today
- Comfortable taking ownership and figuring things out independently — you've worked in a scaling environment, you know how to bring structure to ambiguity, and you genuinely enjoy that kind of environment
- Experience working in a fast-moving startup or scale-up, ideally within a lean People function
- Strong operational judgement and real attention to detail, particularly when it comes to data and process accuracy
- You understand root causes before jumping to solutions — you diagnose the real problem, not just the symptom
- You're curious about AI and actively experimenting with how it can improve the way a people function operates and build better experiences for the team
- We’re after the right person and if you don’t quite hit all the criteria, we’d still encourage you to apply. We’d love to chat and see if you could be a great fit for Flash Pack
What the job involves
- We're looking for a People Experience Specialist to join us for twelve months and take ownership of all things People Ops and Experience
- There are two key parts to this role. Firstly, you'll own our systems and data, run the touch-points that matter most to our people - onboarding, probations, performance cycles and be the first point of contact for anything people-related
- Secondly, you'll be the driving force behind bringing our globally distributed team together - planning the events and culture moments that connect us, and acting as our office champion for the London hub
- You'll be the main point of contact for the UK team who use the hub, and the one planning our in-person events
- It's an initial 6-month fixed-term contract, with real potential to become permanent
- Make the People experience feel intentional at every stage - from someone's first day onward
- Own our People Ops lifecycle end to end - contracts, system changes, onboarding, offboarding, payroll and UK compliance while finding ways to improve how these processes are currently ran
- Document and simplify our People processes so they're clear, scalable and easy for anyone to follow
- Be the go-to for the team on everyday People questions being responsive, thoughtful, easy to reach
- Spot inefficient processes and fix them before they become bigger problems
- Keep our People data accurate and put it to work, pulling the reports and insights that show us what's actually working
- Champion connection across our globally distributed team always thinking about how we bring people together, wherever they are
- Design and deliver the events, comms and moments that make Flash Pack feel like Flash Pack, in person and virtually, with a dynamic events calendar behind it
- Drive the initiatives that strengthen wellbeing, inclusivity and belonging, partnering with team leads to build a genuinely connected culture
- Support managers directly to help their teams connect and get together with practical help, not just ideas
- Turn feedback from the team into real action, not just a survey result - translating what people actually tell us into concrete changes to how we work
- Be our on-the-ground office champion for the London hub - the person who makes it somewhere people actually want to come
Application process
- A note from our of Head of People and Talent: We're thinking about the role CVs should play in our hiring process, and so what better place to test than the People team. I'm really keen to learn more about you as a person, not just what you can do on paper! If you've got something that shows how you actually work rather than what you've just done, please share it! This could be anything, whether it's a video, a project plan, a link to your website – we're open to innovation 👀
- Our interviews take place on Google Meet and usually consist of the following stages:
- Introductory chat with our talent team to see if there is a match (20 mins)
- An interview with the hiring manager to hear more about your background and experience and to give you a deep dive into the role (60 mins)
- A culture and ways of working interview with our founder to see if your ways of working are a match with ours (30 mins)
- Some roles may have extra stages, but we will let you know as soon as possible in the process if this is the case
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Flash Pack is a travel firm whose mission is to build new friendships through group travel for solo travellers. The founders are a couple who started discussing the business idea behind Flash Pack during their first date. Both of them realised that there was a gap in the market for a travel company that catered to people such as themselves.
Their target market is professionals with a growth mindset. Their trips are carefully designed to offer immersive and authentic experiences, distinguishing Flash Pack in a tourism market that is crowded with bland trips.
While the company took a hit during the pandemic, hitting pause on its adventures like many others - but it didn't stay down for long. Since relaunching, the company has seen even more success, with triple-digit year-on-year growth and a shelf full of awards to show for it. And with the solo travel market heating up fast, Flash Pack looks perfectly positioned to ride the next big wave.
Steph
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Top investors
Company
Funding (1 round)
Oct 2023
$6.2m
GROWTH EQUITY VC
Total funding: $6.2m
Company benefits
- Remote flexible: We are a remote flexible business with employees across the globe. Our regional teams get together about every 6-8 weeks for collaboration and social interaction, and we do all-team virtual socials every 4-6 weeks
- Flexible working hours: We know everyone works best differently so you can choose to work in a way that suits you and you team. all we ask is that you are available 3 hours of overlap per day with your core teams
- Transparent salary bandings with Growth opportunities: Our progression and compensation framework is completely transparent to our Flash Packers. We benchmark our salaries annually, and performance and compensation reviews take place bi-annually
- Stock Options: We believe everyone should share in the success of Flash Pack, so all employees get stock options after your first year of employment
- Matched Pension: We want you to feel prepared for the future, so we will match your pension up to 5% (UK employees only). In the US, our EOR partner matches contributions at a rate of 2% of earning per pay period
- Unlimited Mental Health & Wellbeing Support: Access to therapy and counseling services through Oliva are available to ensure you feel supported and enabled at all times
- Enhanced Parental Leave: No matter how your family gets started, you'll be supported here. We offer 15 weeks full pay if you're the primary caregiver & 4 weeks full pay if you're the secondary caregiver. Ask about our comprehensive offering
- Enhanced and Flexible Annual Leave: You'll get 25 days annual leave, plus your bank holidays. If you celebrate different holidays, you can use these days elsewhere! In addition, we close between Christmas and New Year. Plus, you'll get your birthday off every year, and an additional day leave for each year at Flash Pack (capped at 5 days). (Annual leave policies vary based on the country of employment)
- Work from abroad: Experience new cultures, meet inspiring people and fuel your creativity with the opportunity to work from abroad for 45 days of the year
- A diverse and inclusive team: We recognise and celebrate the diversity of our team and celebrate each and everyone one! We're led by a BAME female CEO and have employee groups such as our Neurospicies who help us make Flash Pack better each and every day! DEI&B is the golden threat that ties our culture together, weaving it through the every fiber of our ways of working, policies, benefits and code of conduct
- Flash Pack Adventure: Experience the magic of Flash Pack firsthand with the opportunity to travel and join one of our unforgettable adventures after your first year of employment
- Life-Change Care Plans: Our Care Plans focus on personalised accommodations, flexibility and understanding in order to provide the right level of support for each individual. This covers, but is not limited to life changes involving: miscarriage, pregnancy loss, IVF, menopause and gender transition
- Refer someone in: If you bring a new team member to the pack, you'll get a £1000 bonus!
Company values
- Customer, Team, Self: You seek what is best for Flash Pack before yourself or your group. Service is the foundation on which this business is built and we believe a culture that fosters non-ego, servant leadership is a truly differentiated advantage that can only be built on trust.
- Growth Mindset: We compete in a hyper-competitive industry where benchmarking against competitors is the norm. We’re looking for people who want to set the benchmark rather than celebrate incremental improvements over the competition
- Simplify, Focus, Execute: We value simplicity over complexity. We strive to ruthlessly prioritise. We say no to many things so we can focus on the things that are truly meaningful to us. Bias-to-action and avoid analysis-paralysis. Focus on great results rather than on process
- Humility: No A’holes please, this includes staff and customers. We bring together exceptional individuals but we optimise for the best team outcome. There is no individual bigger than the team and we don’t tolerate egotistical or selfish behaviour. Be self-critical, welcome feedback, continuously experiment and seek perspectives and solutions from outside the company
- Embrace the Adventure: Yes we stole this from Airbnb! To us this means embracing challenges, use feedback and learn from failures and mistakes rather than dwell on them. Be a curious and a continuous learner, focus on bettering oneself and your team rather than protecting oneself
Company HQ
London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Lee Thompson
(Co-Founder & CMO)Previously a Director at Lee Thompson Photography for 8 years.
Radha Vyas
(Co-Founder & CEO)Studied European Politics and Spanish at The University of Hull. Previously a Trustee at Childreach International for 2 years and a Director of Fundraising at Vyas Fundraising for 7 years.
Oliver Lee
(CFO)Oliver initially joined Flash Pack in 2019 as a Finance Manager, quickly becoming the Head of Finance and then the CFO in 2021. Prior to Flash Pack, they were a Manager of Transaction Services at Evelyn Partners, and a Senior Associate at Nexia International and SingerLewak.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Flash Pack
Radha Vyas (CEO)
- We’re led by a BAME, female CEO and building a diverse and inclusive team is incredibly important to us. 33% of our team currently identify at BAME. As we rebuild Flash Pack post pandemic we’ll be focused on promoting self-education through our anti-racism and anti-sexism reading list and building diversity and inclusion into the company hiring, performance and progression framework. If you would like to talk to us about these efforts, or have suggestions for how we can do better, we would love to hear from you
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