People Associate

Job Description

At a glance

Us: Profitable and funded startup of ~70 people. Remote team, mainly based in the UK. YC alumni (summer 2019). Creating a web-based platform for behavioural research. 3x yearly growth, all driven by word-of-mouth.

We’re on a mission to connect people around the world to make trustworthy data more accessible and facilitate world-changing research.

You: A People Associate with startup experience, great communication skills, and a passion for shaping an amazing company culture.

£35-45k depending on skills and experience.

The Role

We're looking for a People Associate to help us with executing and creating people-related policies and processes as a part of the People Team.

The ideal candidate will have HR experience and loads of enthusiasm for making Prolific an even greater place to work! You'll be organised, reliable and have great written and verbal communication skills. You'll also be able to communicate all things People in a data-driven, clear, and actionable way, and foster positive relationships throughout Prolific.

As a member of our small (but growing) People Team, you'll play a huge role in shaping and maintaining the culture at our amazing remote company. Prolific has scaled very quickly and as such we have lots of new policies, processes, initiatives, and more to consider to keep up with our company growth.

Your role as a People Associate is to better understand what our employees and business needs to thrive and help make it happen!

What You'll Be Doing:

• Executing, creating, and auditing policies and processes related to the people function at Prolific.
• Creating an enjoyable and rewarding experience for employees across the company.
• Working across all teams to better understand the needs of people, teams, and Prolific as a whole.
• Tracking data (e.g. through Peakon, our eNPS tool) and creating reports to drive impactful changes at Prolific - we want you to be analytical!

Minimum Requirements:

• Interest in all things HR and people!
• 1+ year of HR or relevant experience.
• Demonstrable ability to read metrics, communicate results and implement processual changes.
• Strong knowledge and understanding of People/HR metrics and how to make effective use of these.
• Experience within a high-growth tech startup and/or fully remote organisation.
• Friendly and approachable, with great communication skills.
• Humility, rigour, optimism, and a desire to learn and grow fast.
• A strong affinity with Prolific's values.

Nice To Have:

• Interest in Behavioural Science, Psychology and/or scientific research and a desire to learn about the research space.
• Experience in talent/recruitment.
• Experience with people and performance management tools.
• Analytics background.

What we offer

• Flexible working: You can work flexibly from home or from our dog-friendly co-working space.
• £1000 home office budget and laptop when you start and a £200 yearly top-up budget.
• 33 days holiday per year (25 days + bank holidays, which you can switch with any day of your choosing).
• Pension (employer contribution 3% of base salary).
• Comprehensive private health insurance that disregards medical history.
• Taxable stipend of £150 a month per person for wellness and improving your remote experience (co-working subscription, gym membership, lunches, etc.)
• £1000 yearly budget for education, growth, and training.
• £1000 yearly budget on discretionary meet-ups (travel, hotel, food, etc.)
• Fun and collaborative quarterly company-wide meet-ups and team socials paid for by us.
• Personal growth opportunities and career progression (e.g., learn about the startup ecosystem, mentoring from executive team, learn about psychological science and research methods).
• Childcare flexibility: Need to pick your child up from school? No problem.
• Generous maternity, paternity, and shared parental leave.
• A company committed to carbon offsetting: we donate money in your name each month to plant trees and we offset travel as an organisation each year.
• Open, transparent, and inclusive culture.