RECRUITMENT

• Lead recruitment efforts and coordinate all steps with relevant stakeholders, including the drafting of Job Descriptions, advertising of roles, screening of candidates, managing the interview process, reference checks, offer negotiation and onboarding.Champion and proactively recruit for a healthy and diverse workforce, giving opportunity to underrepresented and special needs candidates.

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE (WHAT WE THINK YOU NEED TO BE SUCCESSFUL)

• Ideally 5+ years of experience in a directly related role.
• Ideally 10+ years experience within a technology or creative business throughout the start-up and scale up stages.
• Experience in a business with 30-100 people who work in a hybrid and cross timezone structure and can speak to the challenges, and adjustments necessary to work effectively and build team culture.
• You are enthusiastic, proactive and have a genuine interest in helping people grow - you have a flair for understanding what drives them to do their best work.
• You have seasoned and finessed interpersonal skills, you lead with authenticity and respect.
• You have knowledge of video games and web development roles, technologies, titles and responsibilities, and industry trends.
• Bonus if you play videogames and have a dozen Sims you’re still managing and romancing, when not playing Stardew Valley or Baldur’s Gate 3.
• Strong interpersonal skills, with a high degree of emotional intelligence and empathy.
• Clear and present understanding of workplace laws and regulations, including best practice and organisational structures and people processes that support effective workplaces.
• Direct experience dealing with performance management, team restructures and other difficult people processes.
• Experience working in a team using task-management software in an agile manner.
• Excitement to dig in and experiment, perhaps get your hands dirty with some light web development , smart spreadsheets, Slack automations and integrations.
• A team player with strong collaboration skills.
• You’re genuinely excited by positive leadership, continuous improvement and learning, you find you nerd out about it and watch far too many videos on the subject in your free time.
• You bring a positive energy and sense of fun to the workplace that’s infectious.
• You understand healthy boundaries and the challenges everyday humans endure, you have a fire to help others thrive with the separation and objectivity to know when it’s not going to work.

YOUR PURPOSE - PEOPLE & CULTURE LEAD

You work in partnership with our leadership team to help us foster a healthy and performant work environment and build an exceptional team, capable of delivering our ambitious roadmap.
You do this by understanding that happy and focused people are at the heart of a thriving business. You’ll work alongside the leadership team in a partnered approach to provide organisational support that actively improves employee experience, effectiveness and engagement by driving people-related innovations while ensuring good governance.