Head of People, Zero Gravity
£60-80k
Salary, Bonus (up to 40%), Equity Options
3-5 days a week in office
Powering students from low-opportunity backgrounds into top universities and careers
Job no longer available
Powering students from low-opportunity backgrounds into top universities and careers
21-100 employees
Job no longer available
£60-80k
Salary, Bonus (up to 40%), Equity Options
3-5 days a week in office
21-100 employees
Company mission
To unlock potential by empowering ambitious students from low-opportunity areas to secure the universities and careers they deserve.
Role
Who you are
- Proven experience as a Head of People or similar role in a startup or similar fast-paced environment
- An indisputable passion for Zero Gravity’s mission and understanding of our values
- Deep understanding of HR principles, practices, and talent development
- Demonstrated success in creating a high-performance team and culture
- Understanding of employer branding strategies and their impact on attracting top talent
What the job involves
- Read about Zero Gravity's culture, high performance framework and the role here: https://bit.ly/3Ouve1U
- 360 People Management: This role will require you to identify the technologies, processes and ways of working that will attract, develop and retain the UK’s leading talent - helping Zero Gravity scale its impact
- These technologies, processes, and ways of working will need to be aligned with the key elements of Zero Gravity’s culture: our mission, our values, and our high-performance framework
- Employee engagement: Develop Zero Gravity’s framework for boosting engagement and wellbeing, fostering an environment for high performance and wellbeing
- Embed Zero Gravity’s cultural values into every aspect of our people operations, fostering a fully mission-aligned team focussed on driving outcomes
- Develop, conduct and analyse culture surveys and pulse checks, using insights to build Zero Gravity’s ‘Culture Roadmap’ to maximise employee wellbeing and engagement
- Plan and oversee Zero Gravity’s company socials, ensuring the team can bond and develop outside of the office environment and their day-to-day roles - minimising silos and fostering cross-team creativity
- Talent Attraction and Recruitment: Create a scalable and meritocratic recruitment process that embodies Zero Gravity’s mission.
- Build Zero Gravity’s talent pipeline, focussing on identifying mission-aligned, high-performance people who will enhance Zero Gravity’s culture and achieve aspirational outcomes
- Create a consistent, engaging end-to-end candidate experience that excites people to work at Zero Gravity and sets them up for success from day one
- Identify and embed the best technology for driving our talent outcomes
- People Development: Evolve and develop Zero Gravity’s High-Performance framework - creating a framework for employees to develop and thrive in their roles and achieve their outcomes
- Evolve Zero Gravity’s People Development strategy and utilisation of L&D budgets - maximising the team’s development learning
- Creating policies and ways of working that facilitate Zero Gravity’s mission: Shape and evolve Zero Gravity’s policies to drive our mission and underlying ways of working to facilitate Zero Gravity’s culture
- Power the work behind our D&I, employer brand and people development strategies
- Be the go-to mind for legal updates and HR responsibilities, ensuring that Zero Gravity constantly meets its requirements as an employer
- Provide guidance and support to managers and employees on HR-related matters to ensure all employee matters are dealt with in the most effective and fair ways
- Build Zero Gravity’s Employer Brand: Work with our Brand Team to develop and grow awareness of Zero Gravity's employer brand, showcasing the company as an employer of choice
- Manage applications for employer/culture awards - ensuring Zero Gravity’s innovative work is recognised nationally
- Manage and showcase our company Glassdoor page - evidencing Zero Gravity’s successes and culture to make the organisation
Application process
- Apply via Otta
- Initial chat - 30 mins
- Task and task based interview - 1 hour
- Culture interview - 1 hour
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Zero Gravity unleashes the potential of talented students from low-income backgrounds by propelling them into university, work, and life. Since its launch, it's mentored over 15,000 low-income students into highly selective universities and hundreds into elite careers. Believing that talent is spread evenly, but opportunity is not, it's dedicated to changing that so students can achieve futures they once thought impossible.
It unlocks student's potential by breaking down barriers to opportunities through the power of membership. Its mentoring and masterclasses offer an inside track to reaching the best universities and careers, with technology that enables the company to achieve these goals at speed and scale.
Alongside its main initiatives, the company has established Zero Gravity Fund to provide financial support to talented students from low-income backgrounds. Since its inception, it has deployed over £1.5 million in scholarships to Zero Gravity members, further supporting their journey. Through both its programs and financial aid, Zero Gravity is committed to ensuring that every student has the opportunity to reach their full potential.
Kirsty
Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Insights
Company
Funding (last 2 of 4 rounds)
Jun 2024
$2.2m
SEED
Dec 2021
$4.6m
SEED
Total funding: $7.4m
Company benefits
- 📈 | Share options: Own a piece of Zero Gravity with our 'Zero Gravity For All' options scheme
- 💂♀️ | Central London Office: Work from our beautiful Zero Gravity HQ in Barbican/Old Street, while enjoying flexible WFH options
- 🩺 | Private Healthcare: Extensive private health insurance, including dental, mental health support, and gym discounts
- 💳 | Zero Gravity Card: £500 annually to spend on your personal development with your very own Zero Gravity Card
- 🏃♀️ | Monthly Socials: Join us for fun team socials, completely on-the-house. Quarterly, we go big with sports days, BBQs, and more
- 🎄 | Christmas Shutdown: Enjoy 3 extra festive days off, plus 25 days of annual leave and 8 bank holidays
- 💻 | Company MacBook: Get the latest Apple gear to stay ahead of the game
Company values
- Stand up straight: We say what we think and mean what we say. We’re straight talkers who hold ourselves and others to a high standard, owning our mistakes and always striving for improvement.
- Run towards danger: We push ourselves to the limit and refuse to stand still. We embrace imposter syndrome by taking risks, failing fast, and venturing into the unknown. Because playing it safe ≠ progress.
- Change it up: Innovation comes from challenging convention. So we say no to the status quo and constantly seek to disrupt our own thinking. Because the best ideas are often found in the strangest of places.
- Make it happen: We focus on creating incredible results rather than obsessing over process. There’s an inherent drive in our work: a bias toward taking action, moving fast, and delivering what matters.
Company HQ
Old Street, London
Articles
Leadership
Joe Seddon
(Founder & CEO)Award-winning social entrepreneur who has scaled Zero Gravity from his student bedroom into one of the UK's leading tech-for-good startups. Featured in the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.
Tom Haywood-Pope
(COO)Commercial leader with 10 years’ experience scaling social impact and EdTech startups. Drives Zero Gravity’s growth and partnerships, supporting 20,000+ students into top unis and careers.
People progressing
Charlotte joined Zero Gravity as a Founder Associate before being promoted to Chief of Staff where their role now oversees business strategy.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Zero Gravity
Joe Seddon (Founder & CEO)
- Zero Gravity exists to power incredible talent from low-opportunity backgrounds into top universities and careers. This mission is at the core of everything we do, and we only hire people who live and breathe our mission.
- I originally started Zero Gravity from my hometown bedroom in West Yorkshire with the last £200 of my student loan. I come from a single-parent background, went to a state school, and hired my first team member at the age of 22. My own journey has instilled in me a belief that age and background should never be a barrier to advancement!
- We believe in real diversity rather than token gestures. We’ve built our Zero Gravity culture around empowering top talent from all backgrounds, making Zero Gravity the ultimate meritocracy. 40% of our team members are from socially mobile backgrounds and 57% of our managers are internal promotions.
- We apply our Zero Gravity philosophy to our own hiring process, including recruiting team members directly from our platform, implementing contextual recruitment techniques in our hiring process, and having a clear evaluation framework for candidates which takes into account background and performance in context.
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