People Experience (People and Culture) Lead

Harrison.ai

2d • Remote

About The Position

The People Experience Lead partners closely with the Chief People Officer to help shape and deliver the people vision across a fully remote, AI-native, squad-based organisation. This is a senior generalist role spanning the full employee lifecycle - performance, leadership, culture, capability, wellbeing and talent - operating with a high degree of autonomy and judgement. Rather than managing the team, the role coaches and mentors both the People Experience team and peers across other squads, lifting people capability wherever it's needed. It suits a senior generalist ready to operate with real autonomy and grow their influence over time - someone who partners day-to-day with squad leads, guild leads and the wider leadership team as a trusted people advisor. This is a unique role to make an impact in an organisation that offers diversity day to day and never a dull moment.

Requirements

• At least 8 years generalist HR/People experience, including time in a senior or lead capacity
• Demonstrated experience partnering with senior leaders and executives to shape and deliver people strategy
• Deep, hands-on expertise across the full employee lifecycle - talent, performance, remuneration, engagement and employee relations
• Experience designing and delivering both cyclical and strategic people programmes
• Strong coaching and mentoring skills, with a track record of building capability in others without direct management authority
• Sound judgement and discretion handling complex, sensitive and confidential people matters
• Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills across a diverse, distributed organisation
• Comfort operating autonomously in a fast-paced, remote-first environment

Nice To Haves

• Tertiary qualification in HR, business, psychology or a related field
• Experience in a fast-scaling technology, healthcare or regulated environment
• Familiarity with squad/agile-style or non-hierarchical operating models
• Exposure to people analytics tools and data-driven people decision-making
• Experience supporting a globally distributed, multi-region workforce

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Chief People Officer to shape and deliver the people vision, strategy and priorities across the organisation
• Deliver end-to-end generalist support across the employee lifecycle - partnering, onboarding, performance, development, remuneration cycles, engagement, offboarding and talent acquisition
• Coach and mentor the People Experience team, building their capability and confidence
• Advise and upskill squad leads and guild leads as a trusted partner on people matters - performance, difficult conversations, team health and capability
• Own and continuously improve core people programmes, processes and policies, keeping them fit for a fully remote, AI-native, squad-based organisation
• Use people data and insights to identify trends and drive proactive, evidence-based decisions
• Champion Harrison.ai 's culture and values, and lead engagement, wellbeing and belonging initiatives
• Manage complex or sensitive employee-relations matters with sound judgement and discretion

Benefits

• Yearly L&D budgets
• Mentoring
• Hackathons
• Secondments
• Transparent growth framework
• WFH options
• Flexible hours
• Inclusive, thoughtful policies to support families in every stage (from fertility to parenthood, loss, and even grandparenthood)

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: Associate degree