[Hiring] Head of People @Hedepy

Role Description

Own the full employee lifecycle for our internal team:

• Hiring strategy
• Onboarding
• Retention
• Offboarding
• Exit interviews

Lead and develop our Recruiter (Veru), including her priorities and capacity planning.

Run the contractual and labor law setup across 9 countries:

• Contracts
• Addendums
• B2B structures
• Compliance calls with external counsel as backup

Own the monthly payroll cycle across CZ, SK and PL together with our external payroll partners.

Redesign HR processes that do not scale, and automate them yourself with AI, Make or similar tools.

Build and track the people metrics leadership actually uses, from our internal data rather than an off-the-shelf HR suite.

Support the leadership team and the potential expansion with the people side of new markets and new setups.

Be the person people come to when something is not working, and then actually fix it:

• Hard conversations
• Conflicts
• Exits
• Teammates who need help

Qualifications

• 4+ years of HR experience, including 2+ years owning the HR function in an international company of 50 to 200 people.
• Hands-on experience doing the operational HR craft yourself: employment and B2B contracts, addendums, onboarding and offboarding admin, and stepping into recruitment when needed.
• Independent labor law judgment in at least one CEE jurisdiction (CZ, SK or PL), including contract drafting and routine legal decisions without waiting for counsel.
• Proven experience building working automations yourself in Make (or similar) and an ATS such as Workable, plus active use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT or similar) in your daily workflow for drafting, analysis and reporting.
• Track record of building or rebuilding HR processes end-to-end and owning the result, not only the design.
• Strong interpersonal skills: ability to hold hard conversations and support team members.
• English at C1 level, written and spoken, including leadership and board settings.
• Native or fluent level in Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian or Romanian.
• Experience in a scale-up environment where processes did not exist yet.

Requirements

• Experience in a remote company running B2C and B2B models side by side.
• Payroll or contractor setup experience in HU, RO or other CEE markets beyond CZ/SK/PL.
• Experience supporting physical locations alongside a fully remote team.

Benefits

• Free psychotherapy sessions on Hedepy.
• A real mandate: direct CEO reporting, a seat in the leadership team, board exposure.
• Full autonomy over how the HR function is designed, tooled and automated.
• Remote-first, async-friendly, flexible hours.
• International team from 10+ countries, plus team offsites and workations.
• A team that uses AI properly and does not run process theater.