Head of People Operations

Location: Fully remote; candidates should be able to work overlapping Central European Time (CET/CEST). The company maintains an office in Amsterdam and hires in European countries and many others around the globe.

Company

hirify.global is an independent social media platform focused on user ownership of data, content, and feeds.

What you will do

• Own the full employee lifecycle from offers and onboarding through performance management, employee relations, and offboarding.
• Manage full-cycle recruiting and partner with hiring managers on role definition, structured processes, and candidate closing.
• Manage global Employer of Record relationships, including Remote.com or similar providers, and ensure consistent onboarding across countries.
• Build the employee handbook, employment contracts, offer templates, people policies, compensation structures, performance cycles, and promotion processes.
• Ensure employment-law compliance across hiring jurisdictions while coordinating with legal counsel and EOR partners.
• Partner with management on HR technology, organizational design, headcount planning, onboarding, and culture.

Requirements

• Experience as a people operations generalist who has built or significantly grown an HR function, ideally as the first or sole HR person at a startup.
• Experience across recruiting, employment compliance, employee relations, culture, and compensation.
• Experience managing global employment through EOR platforms and navigating multi-jurisdictional compliance across Europe and beyond.
• Ability to write clear, defensible policies with employees in mind.
• Ability to work independently without a team or fully built playbook and build the function from the ground up.
• Ability to balance organizational protection with protection of employees and apply sound human judgment.
• Must have the legal right to work in the stated location.

Culture & Benefits

• Fully remote role within a globally distributed team, with preferred CET/CEST collaboration overlap.
• Health insurance and paid time off, including vacation, sick, and parental leave, in compliance with local labor regulations in the employee’s country of residence.
• Small startup environment with fewer than 30 people and responsibility for building the people function independently.
• The company is an equal opportunity employer and provides accommodations during the hiring process when needed.
• Visa sponsorship is not currently offered.