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About Us At Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good with their charitable giving. Since launching in 2015, our community of over 2,200 members has pledged nearly $13.6B and donated $1.8B+ to the charitable sector in 45+ countries. We provide end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a global network of experts. In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our members include founders and leaders behind companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber. We focus on deploying capital where it can achieve the greatest impact, guided by evidence, careful analysis, and long-term thinking. Salary £90,000 - £95,000 About the Role We’re currently looking for a hands-on People Director - an experienced senior People generalist - to own our people strategy and play a central role in shaping the culture, performance, and growth of an organisation doing some of the most interesting work in philanthropy. Founders Pledge is a lean, nimble team doing ambitious work. For us, a "Director" is a hands-on partner, not a distant executive. We aren't trying to build a massive corporate machine or double our headcount overnight - we’re focused on scaling systems, processes and ultimately our global impact. If you thrive in a scrappy, collaborative environment where you can build, fix, and coach all in the same day, you’ll love it here. This is genuinely a 50/50 role: Strategic Advisory: You will act as a trusted coach, sounding board, and advisor to our COO, CEO and our relatively new Senior Leadership Team (SLT) - helping build leadership capability, team dynamics, and effective workforce planning. Operational Execution: You’ll often find yourself in the weeds - overseeing payroll, untangling compliance across the UK, US and Germany, updating policies, and ensuring our day-to-day HR machinery runs seamlessly. You'll lead a distributed team of four across the UK and US, and you'll report directly to our COO. If you're looking for a role where you can make a real mark on how we work, grow, and empower our teams, we'd love to hear from you. What You'll Do You'll set the direction for the full people agenda at Founders Pledge. This spans everything from shaping our long-term people strategy to making sure our day-to-day operations run smoothly, across hiring, performance, compliance, culture, and beyond. This includes: Strategic HR leadership: Act as a trusted advisor, coach and sounding board to the COO, CEO and senior leadership team on all matters relating to people and culture. Organisational change: Lead change initiatives as the organisation scales, ensuring teams are structured for agility and impact. Manager enablement: Coach and support managers to identify, manage and resolve performance issues. Oversee organisational learning and development to build a working environment where people are empowered to perform at their best and support professional growth across the organisation, including our annual all-staff global offsite. Talent acquisition and onboarding: Oversee end-to-end hiring and onboarding, ensuring a high-quality candidate and new-joiner experience that reflects our values. Total rewards: Design and oversee competitive, equitable global compensation and benefits frameworks that attract and retain top-tier mission-driven talent. Employee relations and compliance: Serve as the key point of contact for all employee relations matters, ensuring Founders Pledge meets its legal, moral, and pastoral obligations as a UK, US, and German employer. People team leadership: Lead, develop, and inspire a distributed team of four, creating a high-functioning, collaborative people function. Operational excellence: Maintain the Headcount Model and People Budget, collaborating with our CFO, provide performance data to the COO, lea