Talent and People Manager, Driftrock

• Experience running people operations and talent hands-on in a company of 35+ people, including scaling processes as it grew
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law, people best practice and compliance, with hands-on contract and policy management
• A track record running recruitment and onboarding end to end
• Experience managing payroll, benefits and people systems, ideally across multiple countries, accurately and on time
• Excellent interpersonal skills and sound judgement on sensitive, confidential matters
• A reliable self-starter who can set direction and deliver it, taking ownership rather than waiting to be told
• Not sure you tick every box? Please apply anyway. If you can show us you've moved the metric that matters, we want to hear from you

Desirable

• Driftrock is hiring a Talent and People Manager to run our people function day to day and own recruitment end to end, from sourcing and interviewing through to onboarding, while making Driftrock a brilliant place to work
• Reports to: Head of Operations
• You'll own the smooth, compliant, day-to-day running of people management and talent at Driftrock, managing recruitment and onboarding, making sure every employees have a great experience from offer to exit, and that our people processes are reliable, well-documented, and ready to scale
• You'll work closely with the Head of Operations and team leaders, with plenty of room to grow your scope as the team and the function grow
• By day 30: Get to know the team, take over day-to-day people operations (payroll, contracts, onboarding), pick up live recruitment straight away, running interviews, managing candidates through the pipeline and map every people process, policy, and system we have in place today
• By day 60: Run your first full payroll cycle smoothly, own talent end to end (from job brief and sourcing through interviewing to offer), and deliver a prioritised list of what to tighten or upgrade
• By day 90: Implement your first process improvements, own talent across all live roles, and become the trusted first point of contact for all people and talent queries
• Own recruitment day to day: job descriptions, sourcing, rounds of interviews, and coordinating with team leads through to offer and onboarding
• Run a comprehensive onboarding experience and follow up so every new joiner settles in well
• Run payroll across three systems and administer benefits, annual leave, and contract renewals accurately and on time
• Draft employment, consultancy contracts and offer letters, and keep our people practices legally compliant with support from our lawyers
• Maintain people policies, the employee handbook, and support home-working health & safety and people-related risk
• Audit our current people processes and systems, recommend and implement upgrades as the team grows
• Manage IT setup, device management (so everyone has the tools they need to work securely) and off-boarding
• Be the first point of contact for people queries, handle disciplinary, grievance and off-boarding processes, including exit interviews

• A short intro call to cover the basics both ways
• A deeper call with the Head of Operations about your experience and skills
• A final conversation with our CEO to wrap up
• We'll always tell you where you stand, and we welcome questions at any stage