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Lead the global people strategy and HR operations, including compensation, career progression, learning and development, recruitment, employee relations, compliance, culture, and people data. Advise the CEO, Board, and senior leaders while managing the HR Manager and partnering with Finance, Delivery, country leads, and external advisers.
Objective of the role
The Global Head of Human Resources leads the people agenda for a global technology business of around 70 people across the UK, Brazil, Australia and the UAE. The role builds the people foundations that allow Raidiam to scale, and prepares the business for the future. The role will develop strong relationships with highly technical engineers and professional support functions.
Reporting to the CEO, the Global Head of HR is part of the Senior Leadership and acts as a trusted adviser to the Board. The role leads an HR Manager, works with external advisers (e.g. legal and recruitment) and partners closely with Finance, Delivery and country leads. It is hands-on and covers strategy through to delivery.
Location: Remote UK-based, with occasional travel to London.
Key responsibilities:
Strategy and leadership
Own the people strategy and link it to business goals.
Advise on organisation design, leadership development, succession and decision-making governance.
Reward, careers and progression
Own pay and progression frameworks: salary bands, benchmarking, pay review and promotion process.
Maintain the engineering career ladder and build career frameworks for non-engineering roles.
Manage the people budget with Finance, incentives and bonus design (e.g. EMI, LTIP).
Oversee training policy. Build a Learning and Development strategy, including annual training cycle.
Raise management capability through manager training, 1:1 standards and career conversations.
Talent acquisition and onboarding
Lead senior and global hiring, managing search firms, the ATS and assessment.
Maintain workforce planning with senior leads, and ensure high-quality onboarding and inductions.
Employee relations, compliance and risk
Lead complex employee relations cases, setting precedent and ensuring consistency.
Keep policies compliant for jurisdictions, including UK, Brazilian, UAE and Australia labour law.
Manage employment-model risk across employees, contractors and EOR (Deel).
Manage conflict of interest declarations, IR35 checks and the wider governance calendar.
Culture, engagement and communications
Run annual People Experience Survey and eNPS, and close the loop with clear actions.
Drive cultural change, including building trust between functions, the Board and leadership.
People operations and data
Lead and develop the HR Manager and set the HR operating model.
Complete any other tasks and/or duties you may be instructed to carry out from time to time
Comply with Raidiam’s Corporate Policies and Procedures
Comply with Raidiam’s Information Security Policies and Procedures.
Essential skills and qualifications
Essential
12+ years’ HR experience in a software engineering technology sector, including time Head of People in a scaling, international technology and engineering or professional services business.
Experience of UK and international employment frameworks.
Credibility with founders, board and technical leaders, and confidence to challenge senior stakeholders.
Comfortable working hands-on in a small team, and analytical with people data.
Desirable
Brazil or LatAm employment exposure.
CIPD qualified or equivalent.
Success measures (first 12 months)
Pay bands and the progression framework published and embedded.
Manager practice score and eNPS improved in the next survey.
Key people retained.
Compliance gaps closed where identified in all regions.
A working senior governance structure and creating a succession process.
An annual training programme rolled out.
What you can expect from us?
Working week of 37.5 hours with flexible, remote working.
25 days annual leave (increasing with length of service), plus Bank Holidays.
Salary: £90,000–£110,000 per annum, depending on experience.
Upon successful completion of your probation, you will benefit from:
Benefits package including Health Cash Plan, Death in Service, Cycle to Work and “Lifestyle Savings”.
Auto-enrolment in pension scheme with 5% employer contribution.
Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption leave.
Enrolment in company equity share option scheme.
About Raidiam
Raidiam is a founder-led global organisation at the forefront of data sharing technologies that are changing the world. Our mission is to empower governments, industries and enterprises to unlock the benefits of open data exchanges by creating trusted digital ecosystems. We believe in empowering everyone to share their data safely, securely and simply, in a trusted and consented way, connecting people seamlessly to the products and services they need.
With customers across Brazil, the UAE, Australia, New Zealand and the UK, Raidiam has been the enabling force behind some of the world's most significant data sharing developments, including the Open Finance and Open Insurance ecosystems in Brazil. We continue to be called upon by governments, regulators and businesses to provide expert advice and technical support in achieving their data sharing ambitions.
We are an innovative, collaborative team of highly skilled engineers and business professionals, working together to design and deliver digital ecosystems built on strong foundations of trust. By operating at the very core of these ecosystems, we establish and nurture the trust that is essential to successful data sharing. This unique approach sets Raidiam apart as the only provider in the market to operate from the core.
This is a UK-based role and does not offer visa sponsorship, therefore you must be legally able to work in the UK and will be asked to confirm upon applying for this position.
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