Head of People, Proxymity
Maternity Cover
2-3 days a week in office
Investor communications platform
Be an early applicant
Investor communications platform
201-500 employees
Be an early applicant
2-3 days a week in office
201-500 employees
Company mission
To create more accurate, efficient and transparent solutions with no manual data entry or paper-based transfer.
Role
Who you are
- 15-20 years of experience in senior People leadership roles within high-growth, technology, fintech, or scaling organisations
- Demonstrated experience operating as a member of an executive leadership team
- Strong commercial acumen and ability to align people strategy with business outcomes
- Experience advising C-suite executives, Boards, and senior stakeholders
- Expertise across organisational design, talent management, employee relations, reward, and culture
- Strong coaching, influencing, and stakeholder management skills
- Experience managing complex people challenges across multiple jurisdictions – UK experience essential; US, APAC and Israel preferable
- Ability to balance strategic thinking with operational delivery
- Ability to balance strategic leadership with operational delivery, willing to roll up your sleeves and execute when needed
- Must be able to attend the office 2-3 days per week as part of our hybrid working arrangement
What the job involves
- The Head of People is responsible for defining and executing the company's global people strategy, ensuring that our people practices enable sustainable growth, high performance, and a strong, values-led culture
- As a member of the Executive Leadership Team, the Head of People acts as a strategic advisor to the COO and senior leaders, helping shape organisational design, talent strategy, reward frameworks, leadership capability, employee experience, and cultural evolution
- This is a highly visible leadership role requiring both strategic thinking and practical execution
- While responsible for shaping the company's people strategy, the successful candidate will also be comfortable rolling up their sleeves and delivering outcomes directly, working alongside a small, high-performing People team
- Develop and deliver the global People Strategy aligned to business objectives
- Act as a trusted advisor to the COO, Executive Leadership Team and Board
- Contribute to strategic planning, workforce planning, organisational design and business transformation
- Lead people initiatives that support growth, organisational effectiveness and change
- Build and embed a high-performance, values-driven culture
- Lead initiatives that strengthen engagement, collaboration, accountability and employee experience
- Oversee employee listening programmes (engagement surveys, eNPS, focus groups) and drive action planning
- Champion inclusion, wellbeing and psychological safety across the organisation
- Oversee talent acquisition strategy to attract and retain exceptional talent
- Develop succession planning, leadership development and organisational capability through performance management, coaching and career development
- Support leaders in building high-performing teams and lead organisational design projects
- Partner with and support the internal Recruiter, leading C-suite and senior leadership hiring where required
- Lead performance management, compensation and reward frameworks that drive business outcomes
- Manage annual salary reviews, executive compensation, equity and incentive programmes
- Use market benchmarking and data to inform reward decisions and Board recommendations
- Coach senior leaders on people leadership, performance, team effectiveness and organisational challenges
- Lead complex employee relations matters, conflict resolution and organisational change
- Provide commercially focused advice that balances business priorities with employee experience
- Ensure compliance with employment legislation across all operating jurisdictions
- Oversee employee relations, restructures, investigations and policy development
- Manage People systems, processes, budgets and external partners
- Lead and develop a high-performing People team
- Use workforce data and insights to drive evidence-based decision making
- Monitor key people metrics including engagement, retention, performance, diversity, hiring and compensation
- Present people insights and recommendations to executive stakeholders and the Board
Our take
Founded with the ambitious goal of revolutionizing investor communications, Proxymity connects intermediaries, investors, and issues in real-time, thereby transforming proxy voting within the corporate governance ecosystem.
Supported by Citi's D10XSM program, the founders saw the potential to reinvent proxy voting, leading to the development of transparent, accurate, and efficient solutions for clients, streamlining the entire proxy voting and asset servicing process. By doing so, Proxymity enhances the investor lifecycle, enabling clients to tackle complex problems and add value at every stage.
Since gaining independence as a separate entity in early 2020, Proxymity has enjoyed remarkable growth and garnered support from prominent industry players, as well as forming strategic partnerships. Given this success, the company secured substantial funding in 2025 and is well on its way to even more success.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
45% employee growth in 12 months
Company
Funding (last 2 of 6 rounds)
Jul 2025
$36m
SERIES C
Feb 2025
$26m
LATE VC
Total funding: $134.5m
Company benefits
- Work your way: We embrace flexibility at Proxymity and have a hybrid working model in place to accommodate everyone's individual needs
- Birthday off: No one wants to spend their birthday at work - with this benefit you don't have to! Get your birthday off, every year
- Choose your tech: We know everyone has their own personal preferences so when you join Proxymity, you can choose a device that works for you
- Duvet days: We know it can be tricky to balance work and life sometimes so you will have two duvet days a year which you can use to switch off for a day
- Family leave: We offer six months maternity and four weeks paternity leave all at full pay and have enhanced adoption and shared parental leave policies in place so you can enjoy those precious moments
- Mindfulness: We offer subsidised subscriptions to mindfulness apps such as Headspace so you can make sure you're taking care of your mental health
- Volunteer day: We know the importance of being able to give back to those in need and offer one paid Volunteer Day a year so you can do just that
- Workation: Work from almost anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year and extend those summer evenings
- 4-week sabbatical after 4 years at Proxymity
- Workation - Our Workation policy means you can work anywhere in the world for up to 45 days per calendar year
- 4 week sabbatical: When you have been at Proxymity for four years take a break and relax on a four-week sabbatical, on top of your annual leave
Company HQ
Soho, London, UK
Leadership
Jonathan Smalley
(Co-Founder)After studying at Nottingham, Jonathan worked for BNY Mellon before joining Citi for almost 10 years.
Dean Little
(Co-Founder)Dean worked at Citi for over 14 years, rising from a Director to becoming part of Citi's D10XSM program- which ultimately led to the creation of Proxymity.
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