People & Talent Lead

Location: On-site in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

Company

Work with a leading sports participation platform in Southeast Asia. The company has 1 million users worldwide, with its strongest presence in Southeast Asia, and a 24-person team mostly based in Vietnam with additional employees in the Philippines. The team plans to roughly double in size over the next 12–18 months.

What you will do

• Support the CEO with 3–5 senior leadership hires by coordinating search firms, sourcing candidates, scheduling interviews, and managing offers.
• Scale the company from 24 to around 50 people through direct sourcing, referrals, networks, and recruiters while maintaining a high hiring bar.
• Build scorecards, structured interviews, recruiting pipelines, onboarding processes, and practical People systems from scratch.
• Own Vietnam HR administration, including employment contracts, payroll inputs, social insurance, labour-law compliance, employee records, policies, and HR tools.
• Work with employer-of-record and payroll partners for hires outside Vietnam and support hiring in the company’s largest regional markets.
• Build performance reviews and pay-band processes, support managers, handle employee relations, run engagement check-ins and exit interviews, and identify people issues for the CEO.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in HR or Talent roles, including hands-on generalist HR work, ideally at a fast-growing startup or technology company.
• Strong recruiting experience, including senior- or manager-level hiring.
• Hands-on knowledge of Vietnam labour law, payroll, and social insurance.
• Experience working with recruiters, search firms, and external HR partners.
• Ability to work independently without a large HR team or an existing playbook.
• Strong judgment in performance, pay, and sensitive employee situations.
• Practical, low-bureaucracy approach to building useful processes.
• High ownership and willingness to handle the work directly.
• Native-level Vietnamese and fluent written and spoken English for collaboration with the Vietnam team and regional candidates.

Nice to have

• Experience scaling a company from roughly 20–30 people to 50–100+.
• Experience building recruiting or People systems from scratch.
• Experience supporting executive searches alongside a search firm.
• Experience hiring outside Vietnam directly or through an employer-of-record service.
• Experience working closely with founders.
• Experience in consumer technology, marketplaces, or sports.

Culture & Benefits

• Direct reporting to the CEO with significant influence over company growth.
• Paid health insurance.
• Transportation allowance.
• Lunch provided.
• Monthly team sports day.
• Competitive salary with a 13th-month salary.