[Hiring] People Operations Executive @SlashData

Role Description

You love working with people and are an HR Generalist, based in Europe with 3-5 years of HR experience to lead our daily People Operations. You also have a foot in the business side, with experience in how culture impacts business decisions and vice versa.

In this role, you will own day-to-day People Operations in a remote company culture, and help build the workplace where we can do the best work of our lives. As a small team of 20 people, you will handle everything from:

• Hiring
• Learning & Development
• Compliance
• Building people systems
• Improving hiring/unhiring processes
• Recognition systems
• Goal-setting
• Learning & development systems
• Connecting and engaging as a remote team
• Planning and executing occasional in-person team events

You will be reporting to Maria, our Finance and Administration Lead for operations & compliance, with a dotted line to Andreas, our CEO, on culture systems. More importantly, your role serves both the people and the company.

Responsibilities

• Culture Systems: Improving hiring/unhiring processes, recognition systems, goal-setting, values & behaviour communication, personal development plans, learning & development systems, and how we connect and engage as a remote team, as well as planning and executing our occasional in-person team events.
• Full-Cycle Recruitment: Oversee JD creation, manage the ATS, screen candidates, and manage the careers page as well as our LinkedIn and Glassdoor presence.
• Onboarding & Offboarding: Improve our digital onboarding experience that introduces new hires to our people, workflow, tools, and culture.
• People Operations & Admin: Manage digital employee files, track time off, manage our benefits, manage online tools used by the team, as well as EoR relationships.
• Policy & Compliance: Keep employee files safe. Maintain and update our policies and processes to ensure the company’s legal compliance.
• Performance Support: Facilitate our remote performance check-ins and feedback loops.
• Learning & Development: Define curriculum, source training, run sessions, track completion, and measure impact - including a company-wide biweekly program on both hard and soft skills.
• Trip & Event Organisation: Help plan, coordinate, and run our occasional in-person team events and meetings.
• HR Analytics: Provide headcount reporting, attrition tracking, and compensation benchmarking to the leadership team.
• Internal Comms: Share company and People Operations updates as well as team news.
• Measure culture every 6 months to inform our culture strategy.

Qualifications

• 3 to 5 years of HR experience in medium-sized companies (20-100 people), ideally within a remote environment.
• You love working with people, understanding their unique perspectives and adapting to people from varying cultural backgrounds.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
• Good understanding of general HR policies and labour laws in Greece and/or the UK.
• Have worked with business stakeholders and understand how HR initiatives affect the business, and vice versa.
• Highly organised self-starter who is an early AI adopter.
• Experience with HR software (HRIS) and Google Workspace. We use Factorial.
• Comfortable working as part of a distributed team, with mutual flexibility around working hours.
• Strong logistical and organisational skills, with a keen eye for detail and budget management.
• Strong communication skills and absolute trustworthiness with the ability to handle sensitive, confidential data.
• You are a self-improver and like to take pride in your work.

Bonus Points

• Familiarity with implementing business systems such as EOS, Scaling Up, Metrononics, or Bloom Growth.
• Professional HR certification (like SHRM-CP or CIPD).
• Experience with talent sourcing and digital hiring tools like Workable.
• EoR platform experience, e.g. Deel.

Success Criteria

• You have built a relationship with every single team member.
• You have advised the company successfully on compliance matters.
• Time-off, onboarding, and offboarding run as documented processes that someone else could follow without you in the room.
• You have taken at least one open role from brief to offer using a scorecard-based process you designed or improved.
• The L&D curriculum is planned for the next six months, and the first two sessions have run.
• You have presented a 12-month people & culture roadmap to the leadership team with three named priorities and what you need to deliver them.

Benefits

• Meaningful Work at the Centre of AI & Software Evolution: Join a company shaping how technology companies adapt in the AI era.
• Competitive Compensation & Performance Upside: Competitive base salary depending on experience and location: €24,000.00–€30,000.00 (gross).
• Additional profit sharing based on company profitability for everyone with 1 or more years at the company.
• Employment basis: direct employment (Greece or UK) or EoR employee (other countries).
• Truly Remote, Globally Connected: Fully distributed team across continents with real connection.
• Two team events per year: One in-person international meetup and one virtual global team event.
• Flexible working environment built on trust and ownership.
• Annual Personal Development Budget: £1,000.00 per year training budget and monthly Amazon book allowance.
• Work Where You Work Best: £500.00 annual co-working budget and £500.00 initial home office setup budget.
• Lifestyle Perks: Spotify Premium or Netflix subscription and one self-care day to take whenever you need it.
• A Culture That Listens: Open access to leadership, clear feedback loops, and real autonomy and accountability.

The Application Process

We have a 5-step recruitment process. Throughout each stage of the recruitment process, your applications will be reviewed by the Hiring Manager for the role, and you will receive an email advising you if you have been moved to the next stage of the recruitment process.

• After your initial application, we will send you a short list of questions to answer either via video.
• We may offer to schedule a quick informal call to tell you more about the hiring process.
• We ask you to complete a challenge assignment, simulating the day-to-day work at SlashData.
• You will then go through a series of interviews, first with the Hiring Manager and then the Leadership Team.
• If we feel you are the best fit for the position, we will contact you with an offer.

Salary

€24,000.00–€30,000.00 (gross), depending on experience and location.