People Performance Manager

Location: Remote, United Kingdom

Company

Building AI-native transaction infrastructure to make electricity markets more transparent, efficient, and fair.

What you will do

• Partner with a portfolio of leaders on performance decisions, team matters, difficult conversations, and employment-related questions.
• Co-design progression, performance standards, evaluation, compensation, and reward frameworks.
• Handle performance management, employee relations cases, exits, and restructures end to end.
• Coach and challenge leaders while maintaining high standards for performance, potential, pay, and progression.
• Use AI and automation to reduce repeatable operational work and improve employee and manager self-service.
• Identify recurring people and manager pain points, then design, measure, and iterate better processes, tools, and guidance.

Requirements

• Experience making or guiding people decisions involving hiring, performance, and exits.
• Confidence handling difficult conversations and influencing leadership decisions with empathy and conviction.
• Experience building or operating within a high-performance culture.
• Ability to work from first principles and operate effectively without a fixed playbook.
• Fluency with Notion, automation, and AI tools, with strong written communication.
• Must be able to work remotely from the United Kingdom.

Nice to have

• Employment relations experience in the UK, Europe, or the US.
• Experience working across multiple countries or with employer of record arrangements.
• Compensation and benchmarking experience, including salary bands and pay review cycles.

Culture & Benefits

• Remote-first and flexible working with clear core hours.
• No internal meetings on Friday afternoons.
• 25 days of holiday plus public holidays, with the option to swap public holidays and take a birthday day off.
• Up to GBP 1,200 or EUR 1,400 per year for remote equipment.
• Up to GBP 150 or EUR 170 per month for wellbeing.
• Stock options providing ownership in the company.

Hiring process

• Introductory call with the Talent team.
• Skills interview, potentially including a practical exercise.
• Hiring Manager interview followed by a Bar Raiser interview with leadership stakeholders.
• Typical process duration is 2 to 3 weeks from first conversation to offer.