Head of HR

What the role covers

• Running HR day to day as a hands-on generalist, partnering a leadership team split across Milan, New York, San Francisco and Tokyo
• Leading a small HR team, including HR business partners, that supports employees in Italy and abroad
• Owning reward: pay and career progression that work consistently across countries
• Delivering a new HR information system and a performance management approach, and putting in place the processes a larger business will need
• Bringing payroll into HR and integrating the people from the merged companies
• Using AI to make HR work faster and better

What the brief asks for

• Experience leading HR as a generalist in a growing international business
• Experience managing a small team that includes HR business partners
• Hands-on work in reward, HR systems, performance management or payroll
• Pace, ownership and sound judgement in a business that moves quickly
• Curiosity about AI and practical use of it

What helps

• Bringing companies together after mergers or acquisitions
• A background in technology or a scale-up
• Knowledge of Italian employment practice
• Experience supporting employees in other countries