Talent and People Manager

Driftrock Limited

1d • Remote

About The Position

Driftrock is hiring a Talent and People Manager to run our people function day to day and own recruitment end to end, from sourcing and interviewing through to onboarding, while making Driftrock a brilliant place to work. This role is pivotal as the company grows fast across the UK and internationally. The successful candidate will own the people function end-to-end, shaping how the company hires, grows, and looks after its people, and helping define the culture as the company scales. The role involves ensuring the smooth, compliant, day-to-day running of people management and talent, managing recruitment and onboarding, ensuring every employee has a great experience from offer to exit, and that people processes are reliable, well-documented, and ready to scale. The role offers plenty of room to grow scope as the team and function grow.

Requirements

• Experience running people operations and talent hands-on in a company of 45+ people, including scaling processes as it grew.
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law, people best practice and compliance, with hands-on contract and policy management.
• A track record running recruitment and onboarding end to end.
• Experience managing payroll, benefits and people systems, ideally across multiple countries, accurately and on time.
• Excellent interpersonal skills and sound judgement on sensitive, confidential matters.
• A reliable self-starter who can set direction and deliver it, taking ownership rather than waiting to be told.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting a remote-first or internationally distributed team.
• Familiarity with Employer of Record models and multi-country payroll.
• Comfortable with technology and tools.

Responsibilities

• Own recruitment day to day: job descriptions, sourcing, rounds of interviews, and coordinating with team leads through to offer and onboarding.
• Run a comprehensive onboarding experience and follow up so every new joiner settles in well.
• Run payroll across three systems and administer benefits, annual leave, and contract renewals accurately and on time.
• Draft employment, consultancy contracts and offer letters, and keep our people practices legally compliant with support from our lawyers.
• Maintain people policies, the employee handbook, and support home-working health & safety and people-related risk.
• Audit our current people processes and systems, recommend and implement upgrades as the team grows.
• Manage IT setup, device management (so everyone has the tools they need to work securely) and off-boarding.
• Be the first point of contact for people queries, handle disciplinary, grievance and off-boarding processes, including exit interviews.

Benefits

• Share options in Driftrock, on founder-friendly, tax-efficient EMI terms, including the option to retain vested options after leaving (at board discretion).
• Comprehensive Vitality health cover: medical, dental, vision, hearing, mental-health support and therapy, cancer cover, a free Headspace subscription and Vitality rewards.
• 24 to 28 days' holiday (24 + 1 extra each year, capped at 28), plus bank holidays.
• Pension contributions, life assurance (3x salary) and income protection.
• Electric car salary-sacrifice scheme (Octopus): save up to ~40%, with insurance, servicing and a charging perk included.
• Enhanced maternity and paternity leave.
• A learning budget for books, courses and conferences, plus time for personal goals.
• Perks and discounts via CharlieHR, and a BMW Group employee discount programme.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed