Rayda

Role Description We are seeking a Senior People & Culture Manager to own and lead all aspects of the People function across Rayda’s global team. This role is both strategic and hands-on, ensuring a seamless employee experience from recruitment to offboarding, while nurturing a strong, inclusive, and high-performing culture in our remote-first environment. You will report directly to the leadership team and partner closely with department heads to align People strategy with Rayda’s business objectives. While you will initially operate as a standalone function, you will have the opportunity to build out the People team as we scale. Key Responsibilities - Global People Operations: Oversee the full employee lifecycle for all team members worldwide, including recruitment, onboarding, performance management, and offboarding. - Culture & Engagement: Champion Rayda’s values, promote inclusion, and design initiatives that enhance team engagement, well-being, and productivity. - Compliance: Maintain and adapt HR policies to ensure compliance with local labour laws across multiple countries, starting with Nigeria and key operational markets. - Talent Acquisition: Partner with leadership and hiring managers to identify talent needs, manage global hiring processes, and maintain a strong candidate experience. - Performance & Development: Implement performance review cycles, career growth frameworks, and learning & development initiatives. - People Analytics: Track and analyse HR metrics to inform decisions and improve retention, engagement, and team performance. - Leadership Partnership: Act as a trusted advisor to the leadership team on organisational design, workforce planning, and change management. Qualifications - Bachelor’s degree in HR, Business Administration, Psychology, or related field. - 5+ years experience in HR/People roles, with at least 2 years in a senior or function-lead capacity. - Proven experience supporting remote or distributed teams across multiple countries. - Strong knowledge of Nigerian labour law; familiarity with global HR compliance is an advantage. - Exceptional communication and relationship-building skills, with cultural sensitivity. - Highly organised, process-driven, and comfortable working autonomously in a fast-paced environment. - HR certification (CIPD, SHRM, HRCI, or equivalent) is a plus. Benefits - Compensation: Salary range: ₦800,000 – ₦1,000,000/month (depending on experience) - Statutory Benefits: - Why Join Rayda? - Be part of a mission-driven company shaping the future of work and sustainability. - Work with a globally distributed, ambitious, and collaborative team. - Take full ownership of the People & Culture function, with the opportunity to scale and lead the team in the future.

• Define product roadmap based on customer interviews, usage analytics, and business objectives • Prioritize features using quantitative frameworks (impact vs effort, customer value, revenue potential) • Work with sales and customer success to understand enterprise customer technical requirements • Conduct competitive analysis and identify market positioning opportunities • Write detailed technical specifications for AI agents and platform features • Create and maintain API documentation and integration guides • Design system architecture diagrams and technical workflows • Define acceptance criteria and success metrics for engineering features • Lead technical discussions with enterprise customers during sales cycles • Support customer implementations and troubleshoot integration issues • Gather technical feedback and translate into product improvements • Present technical capabilities to customer engineering teams

• Draft, review, and negotiate a broad range of commercial contracts including SaaS agreements, MSAs, NDAs, vendor contracts, and partnership agreements. • Advise on corporate governance matters, entity structuring, and regulatory filings across multiple jurisdictions. • Support M&A, fundraising, and investor relations activities from a legal and due diligence standpoint. • Manage relationships with external legal counsel in relevant markets to ensure cost-effective and timely legal support. • Maintain and update the company's contract management system and legal templates library. • Serve as the primary point of contact for all data privacy matters across the organisation. • Ensure Rayda's products, services, and internal operations are compliant with GDPR, NDPR (Nigeria), POPIA (South Africa), CCPA (California), PDPA, and other applicable data protection regulations. • Conduct and maintain Records of Processing Activities (RoPA), Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIAs), and Legitimate Interest Assessments (LIAs). • Draft and update privacy policies, cookie policies, data processing agreements (DPAs), and standard contractual clauses (SCCs). • Manage data subject access requests (DSARs), data breach incidents, and regulatory notifications. • Advise product and engineering teams on privacy-by-design and privacy-by-default principles. • Monitor and interpret changes in applicable laws and regulations across Rayda's operating regions and proactively communicate impact to the business. • Develop, maintain, and enforce internal compliance policies, codes of conduct, and compliance training programmes. • Support the preparation of regulatory submissions, licensing applications, and responses to regulatory enquiries. • Assess and manage legal and compliance risks in new market entry strategies. • Maintain compliance calendars and ensure timely filings, renewals, and statutory obligations are met across all jurisdictions. • Act as a trusted legal advisor to product, sales, engineering, finance, and people teams. • Train and educate internal stakeholders on relevant legal and compliance topics. • Support People & HR teams with employment-related legal matters across jurisdictions. • Manage and improve legal operations processes and tooling to increase efficiency at scale.