[Hiring] Talent and People Manager @Driftrock Limited

Role Description

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.

At Driftrock, we help some of the world's best-known brands turn advertising into real customers. It's a pivotal time as we grow fast across the UK and internationally, and the next few years will be the most exciting in our story so far.

That growth is all about people. We're looking for a dedicated talent lead to own our people function end-to-end, shaping how we hire, grow, look after brilliant people, and helping define the culture as we scale.

What you’ll own

• Own the smooth, compliant, day-to-day running of people management and talent at Driftrock.
• Manage recruitment and onboarding, ensuring every employee has a great experience from offer to exit.
• Work closely with the Head of Operations and team leaders, with room to grow your scope as the team and function grow.

Your first 90 days

• By day 30: Get to know the team, take over day-to-day people operations (payroll, contracts, onboarding), pick up live recruitment straight away, running interviews, managing candidates through the pipeline and map every people process, policy, and system we have in place today.
• By day 60: Run your first full payroll cycle smoothly, own talent end to end (from job brief and sourcing through interviewing to offer), and deliver a prioritised list of what to tighten or upgrade.
• By day 90: Implement your first process improvements, own talent across all live roles, and become the trusted first point of contact for all people and talent queries.

What you'll be doing

• 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Bonus points

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

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.

Our hiring process

• A short intro call to cover the basics both ways.
• A deeper call with the Head of Operations about your experience and skills.
• A final conversation with our CEO to wrap up.

Inclusion at Driftrock

Driftrock is an equal-opportunity employer. We welcome applicants of every background, identity and life experience, and we're building a team that reflects the people our marketing reaches.