[Hiring] AI-First HR Manager @Storyteller

Role Description

We're hiring someone who automates the 70% of HR roles that are typically administration and spends their time on the 30% that actually matters. You will own the full HR remit, end to end:

• Employee lifecycle: contracts, onboarding, offboarding, right-to-work, references. Built as workflows that run themselves, not checklists someone has to chase.
• Policy & compliance: keep the handbook current with UK employment law and actually readable. No 40-page documents nobody opens.
• Performance & comp cycles: run the review cycle, comp benchmarking, promotion cases, all backed by clean data.
• People data: headcount, attrition, comp, tenure. Real reporting, not vibes.
• International: contractors and employees across multiple markets: EOR arrangements, contractor compliance, offshore onboarding.

How We Expect You To Work:

• You build with AI daily.
• You automate before you administrate.
• You build your own tools.
• You know where the line is.

What This Role is Not:

• Not a "People & Culture" brand exercise. No engagement theatre, no values posters.
• Not a coordinator role. You own outcomes, not calendars.
• Not for anyone whose AI experience is "I've used ChatGPT to write an email." We will ask you to show us what you've built.

Qualifications

• Solid grounding in UK employment law — contracts, policy, compliance.
• Demonstrable AI adoption: things you've built, automated, or shipped. Evidence, not enthusiasm.
• Technical fluency: strong in spreadsheets and HRIS admin, comfortable with automation tooling, genuinely curious about new tech and quick to adopt it.
• Discretion, sound judgement, and the spine for hard conversations.

Requirements

• Nice to Have:
• CIPD or equivalent (we care far more about what you've done).
• Experience in agency, SaaS, or high-growth tech environments.
• Multi-country / EOR experience.

How to Apply

Skip the cover letter. Send your CV plus a short note on the best thing you've automated or built with AI — in HR or anywhere else. What it was, what it replaced, what it saved. That note will get more attention than your CV.

Recruitment Process

• Initial call with a member of our Head of Operations.
• Follow-up technical exercise, which is compensated and designed to test skills relevant to the role.
• Final interview and exercise review.

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