People Partner

🍊Our mission 

All new medicines need to undergo clinical trials to show they’re safe and effective. But today’s clinical trial infrastructure is stuck in the past, and the cost of developing new medicines has skyrocketed as a result. Patients have to wait longer and pay more for new treatments. 

Our mission is to fix this; we use software to help innovative companies run faster, more reliable, and patient-friendly clinical trials. We’re still a young company, but we’ve already had a big impact. Since founding the company in March 2021 we’ve helped run over 100 clinical trials involving tens of thousands of patients, with a customer NPS of 100.

We recently raised a $55m Series B round from Balderton Capital, with support from Creandum, Firstminute, Seedcamp, and Visionaries. 

🍊About the role 

We’re looking for a People Partner, working closely with our People and Operations Director to help us deliver an exceptional experience for our whole team. This role would suit someone who has experience working in a people function, either within a small team at a startup or supporting a specific business function within a larger company. This role will suit someone who has a passion for people operations, is organised, proactive and personable.

You’ll be based in our London office and report into our Director of People Operations.

🍊About you 

We’d like to hear from you if…

• You have worked in a people or HR function previously, either at a startup or within a larger company 

• You have experience working across the people lifecycle from onboarding through to offboarding

• You are knowledgeable or have the willingness to learn employment law and employment best practice in the UK, with exposure to US laws and regulations 

• You have experience designing and delivering people operations processes and projects across an organisation 

• You are keen to take on a wide range of different responsibilities within the people function

• You have high agency and a bias for action

• You are passionate and curious about our mission; changing how the healthcare industry operates and how new health treatments are developed 

• You want to learn what life is like at a high-growth, mission-driven VC funded startup 

You belong here! If your experience and interests match with some of the above, we want you to apply.

🍊What you’ll focus on

Our People and Operations team is small, so you will likely work on a broad range of initiatives and projects. Below are some examples of the responsibilities you would be expected to own when you join.

• Onboarding and Compliance

  • Oversee and deliver our onboarding programme for new joiners and offboarding process for leavers

  • Oversee all people and employment compliance processes and policies, ensuring we are fully compliant with local employment laws

  • Support in the on-going development of our people processes as we scale, including our people handbook and policies

• Systems and Process Management

  • Manage relationship with our EOR and PEO partners in Europe and the US 

  • Take on responsibility for our people operations tools, workflows and systems, ensuring that these evolve where required

• People Initiatives

  • Manage our employee benefits programs, including US health insurance (via our PEO), health cash plan, wellbeing benefit, L&D programme and other perks

  • Work closely with People and Operations Director on the design and delivery of key initiatives in the business

  • Our performance management programme, including mid-year and year-end review processes

  • L&D training programmes 

  • Salary benchmarking and remuneration reviews  

• Employee Relations 

  • Be a trusted advisor to our employees across the business, providing support and guidance on our people policies and processes 

  • Support on ad-hoc tasks and admin as and when needed to support the business and the people function

🍊What we offer

• Competitive salary, plus meaningful stock options

• Flexible working; we have an incredible office near London Bridge and encourage people to work 3 days per week from the office.

• Unlimited holidays; everyone is encouraged to take off at least 28 days each year

• Health & wellbeing - cashback scheme with Medicash (unlimited virtual GP appointments, medical, dental, optician, physio, mental health + more!)

• Gympass membership; flexible access to gyms, studios, classes and wellness apps

• Enhanced Parental Leave - 12 weeks full pay for primary care giver & 4 weeks full pay for secondary care giver

• Cycle to work scheme

• Regular team events; we've been to Legoland, a Bake Off competition, and a Millwall FC home game (decided by popular vote)

• Up to £1,000 per year towards courses, certifications and development

• A new laptop as your main workstation

🍊Our hiring process

• Initial conversation with Sarah, Talent Partner (30 minutes)

• Second call with Gaby, Director of People and Operations (30 minutes)

• Functional Exercise, a take-home exercise to understand how you'd approach specific challenges in the role

• Functional Interview with Gaby and Michael, CEO/Co-Founder (45 minutes)

• Culture and values interview with one of our Co-Founders, Meri or Michael and another team member (30 minutes)