# Head of HR

> An international tech business is growing quickly following several mergers with smaller players in Europe, the US and APAC, and needs a hands-on Head of HR to run the function and build it for a much larger company.

- Canonical: https://www.mvrk.xyz/live-searches/head-of-hr-milan
- Published: 2026-10-18
- Location: Milan, Italy
- Industry: Technology
- Status: live

### 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