People Manager in London

Job Description

We're looking for a People Manager to help our team grow and develop in a mindful way, perpetuate and expand on our values, and build a brilliant workplace culture.

This person will report into Holly Clarke, CMO, but have direct relationships with the wider leadership team and managers. 

Our dream candidate radiates genuine care for our team, culture and career progression.

They possess exceptional talent for anticipating the needs of our team and serve as the glue that helps us to hire while retaining and developing our company culture.

They obsess over onboarding, eNPS and team happiness.

With an innovative mindset they’ll embrace challenges with enthusiasm and the inquisitiveness needed for rapid learning and growth.

Your role

• Support hiring managers with recruiting: write and benchmark superb job descriptions, source candidates, run interviews and train interviewers and ensure diverse, high quality applicant pipelines.

• Own onboarding: logistics, programming, training, probation check-in timelines and onboarding surveys.

• Own team communication management, working with leadership to define the ways we use Slack, email, Notion and more, with great internal documentation.

• Manage our routines and events on- and offline including office liaison.

• Alongside leadership and with input from the wider team, manage training, learning and wellness resources including diversity and inclusion, and team benefits.

• Support managers with promotion timelines, quarterly reviews, OKRs, salary reviews, hiring and manager training.

• Work with marketing to develop our employer branding, from managing Byway’s presence on job sites to entering awards.

Qualifications

What we’re looking for

• A passion for our mission and growing businesses with great eNPS with a brilliant written and verbal communication style.

• Fiscal accountability and demonstrated ability to prioritise resources based on business case and need.

• Recruitment and ATS management experience.

• Good working knowledge of employment legislation in the UK.

• Significant drive to listen, understand and empathise with the needs of all employees, especially underrepresented groups.

• Background in developing training resources for a wide range of audiences, especially junior team members.

• Experience supporting teams and developing great working relationships in a hybrid remote environment.

What would be great (but isn’t required)

• Background in start-up/scale ups

• HR training/expertise

• Experience with European and US recruitment

Additional Information

What we offer

• £35-42k salary, depending on experience

• Remote-first, flexible working

  • 80 hours whenever: flexi-working across two week periods

  • 20 days wherever: work when you like and where you like for most of the month

  • 2 days together: join us in London two days each month including our monthly social

  • A funded day a week in a co-working space

• One cost-price Byway holiday per year and agency rates with Eurostar for you and your family/friends

• 33 holidays days a year (including bank holidays) and an optional extra two days if you travel flight free with Climate Perks

• An annual Away Afternoon and optional Weekend Away.

How to apply

Please apply with your CV and a short covering letter.

We're more interested in your covering letter than your CV.

We’re eager to receive applications from all backgrounds, including from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

If there’s anything we can do to accommodate your specific situation, please let us know.

The process

If we like your application, we’ll invite you to an initial 30 minute call with Holly, our CMO.

After that, we have a take-home task for you to complete and send back, and if that goes well, a detailed competency interview with a People leader from one of our investors, Founders Factory, and Cat, CEO.

The final stage is a longer interview designed to help us get to know you as a person, with Holly, CMO, and Rich, CTO. 

We offer flexible scheduling for our multi-stage interview process and are open to adjustments based on candidate needs.

Applications close

Sunday 30th June