Lettings & property management AI-first platform
Founding People Operations Lead
Location
United Kingdom
Posted
31 days ago
Salary
0
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Founding People Operations Lead
Dwelly
• Drive all core HR processes across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, contract management, employee records, and offboarding. Ensure processes are structured, scalable, and consistently executed, delivering a seamless experience for every team member. • Own and maintain HR and company policies while ensuring full compliance with UK employment law. Lead employee relations processes, including disciplinary actions, performance management, absence management, and organisational changes. Partner with leadership to provide consistent, fair, and legally sound HR guidance. • Oversee payroll coordination and HR administration, ensuring accuracy of employee data, contract updates, and benefits. Serve as the central owner of HR systems, documentation, and data integrity, continuously optimising processes for efficiency and scalability.
Job Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in HR; HR Operations, HR Generalist, or HRBP roles.
- Strong knowledge of UK employment law (essential).
- Experience owning HR operations end-to-end, including contracts, policies, and employee lifecycle.
- Strong communication skills and fluency in English.
- Higher degree education.
- Startup mentality: resilience, adaptability, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Customer-centric mindset: focus on delivering value to our employees.
- Highly structured and organised, with strong attention to detail.
- Strong sense of ownership and accountability.
- Experience implementing or managing HR policies and compliance frameworks.
- Exposure to employee relations topics (e.g. disciplinary processes, performance management, absence management).
- Experience supporting organisational changes (e.g. scaling, restructuring, M&A is a plus).
- Proven ability to build or improve processes from scratch.
- Familiarity with TUPE and UK redundancy procedures.
- Exposure to EU employment frameworks.
- Experience with HR data reporting or basic people analytics.
- Exposure to payroll coordination or benefits administration.
- Familiarity with HR systems, ATS platforms.
- Experience in a roll-up, acquisition-driven environment.
Benefits
- Competitive salary with the potential for equity options based on performance, recognising exceptional contributions to our integration success.
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