People & Talent Lead

Location: Onsite at the Ho Chi Minh City office, Vietnam

Company

A sports participation platform in Southeast Asia with 1M users worldwide, strongest in Southeast Asia. The current team has 24 people, mostly in Vietnam with additional employees in the Philippines, and plans to roughly double in size over 12–18 months.

What you will do

• Run day-to-day People operations and work directly with the CEO and team leads.
• Support 3–5 senior leadership hires, coordinating search firms, sourcing candidates, interviews, and offers.
• Grow the company from 24 to around 50 people through direct sourcing, referrals, networks, and recruiters.
• Build scorecards, structured interviews, onboarding, performance reviews, pay bands, and progression processes.
• Own Vietnam HR administration, including contracts, payroll inputs, social insurance, labour-law compliance, records, policies, and HR tools.
• Support managers, handle employee relations, run engagement check-ins and exit interviews, and work with international HR and payroll partners.

Requirements

• 5+ years in HR or Talent roles, including hands-on generalist HR experience, ideally in a fast-growing startup or tech company.
• Strong recruiting experience, including senior- or manager-level hires.
• 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 existing playbook.
• Strong judgment regarding performance, pay, and sensitive employee situations.
• Practical, low-bureaucracy approach; high ownership and willingness to do the work directly.
• Native-level Vietnamese and fluent English, spoken and written, to work 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 with a search firm.
• Experience hiring outside Vietnam directly or through an employer-of-record service.
• Experience working closely with founders.
• Background in consumer tech, marketplaces, or sports.

Culture & Benefits

• Hands-on role reporting directly to the CEO, with influence over team growth and People practices.
• Competitive salary plus a 13th-month salary.
• Paid health insurance and transportation allowance.
• Lunch provided and a monthly team sports day.