[Hiring] Head of People & Culture @Curewiki

Role Description

As Head of People & Culture, you'll own everything about how Curewiki hires, develops, rewards, and retains its people across a remote, multi-country European team. This is a player-coach role by design:

• Personally run the searches that matter most.
• Build the people infrastructure a scaling company needs.
• Manage multi-country employment setups, compensation and equity frameworks, and performance rhythms.

Responsibilities

• Talent acquisition:
  • Own the hiring engine end to end: open-role portfolio, search strategy per role, and pipeline health.
  • Drive the most senior and hardest searches personally.
  • Run the hiring process as promised: fast, transparent, evidence-based, with feedback at every step, completed in weeks rather than months.
  • Hold the A-player bar in every process: evidence over titles and degrees.
  • Build the employer brand that attracts A-players.
• People operations & employment infrastructure:
  • Own employment setup across our European footprint: contracts, EOR/entity decisions per country, and compliant onboarding.
  • Run core people operations with part-time HR support and external providers: payroll coordination, social security administration, absence, and policies.
  • Make onboarding effective: new hires productive in days, with clear 90-day expectations from day one.
• Compensation & equity architecture:
  • Build Curewiki's compensation framework: bands per role and level, benchmarked for European markets.
  • Establish a clear transparency philosophy.
• Performance, development & culture:
  • Install a lightweight performance rhythm: clear goals, honest feedback, and development conversations.
  • Build development around strengths, with stretch assignments and promotion paths earned by outcomes.
  • Own culture deliberately in a remote, multi-country company.
  • Act as coach and confidential sounding board for leadership on team design and organisational decisions.
• AI-first people function:
  • Run the people function AI-first: sourcing, screening support, documentation, and analytics with modern tooling.
  • Leverage human judgment where it counts most.

Qualifications

• Experience owning the people function through scaling from a small core team to a multi-country organization.
• Track record of personally closing senior hires and navigating the hiring process.
• Knowledge of European employment across borders: setting up or running employment in multiple EU countries.
• Experience building or rebuilding a compensation and equity framework.
• Genuine player-coach mentality: happiest owning the work directly.
• Fluent professional English.

Nice to Have

• Experience in healthtech, life sciences, or another regulated industry.
• Experience supporting a company through a financing round and subsequent team scaling.
• Familiarity with Belgian employment and social security specifics.
• Remote work within the EU, with a Belgium-based preference.

Benefits

• A player-coach mandate: real ownership from day one.
• Direct access to and partnership with the Founder & CEO and leadership team.
• A fast, transparent hiring process: feedback at every step, completed in weeks not months.
• A high-velocity, mission-driven team that embraces AI leverage in every role.
• The chance to build the people function of a healthtech scale-up from the ground up, across multiple countries.