People Partner

Job Description

What we do

At Perlego, there are over 100 of us working hard to make education accessible to all. In this digital age, we believe that anyone should be able to learn anything at any time. Knowledge should be more accessible, not locked behind sky-high price tags.

Over the past 5 years, our goal has been to support students across the UK & Europe to access quality books. The next stage of Perlego is twofold: 1) expand our support to students globally, and 2) build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and more effectively.

What we’re looking for

A smart, creative, passionate people and talent professional who has experience building strong growth and performance frameworks, solving complex people problems and hiring world-class talent.

You will be a trusted advisor to our Domain Heads, senior leaders who are the owners of our strategic pillars. You will coach, challenge and support them in achieving our growth goals, while maintaining a happy and engaged team.

How we work together

We work in a matrix structure and we organise ourselves into cross-functional tribes working together on common goals, with each tribe focusing on a specific domain and including all the necessary roles and skills to deliver on our objectives.

As a People Partner your role will split between building and managing People Products and People Partnering.

What you’ll do

With the whole company…

• Own key people products; talent cycle design, salary reviews, performance, growth and progression & engagement
• You’ll be responsible for ensuring we have clear and consistent performance measures that align with business operations and our current rhythm
• You’ll own our salary review process ensuring salary decisions are equitable and within budget whilst minimising the influence of biases
• You’ll ensure we have the right growth and progression opportunities in place to retain our top talent
• You’ll review and analyse company-wide engagement insight presenting solutions to the COO

With the Domain Leaders & Managers …

• Collaborate, support and coach our domain leaders on all people-related matters, including org design, learning and development, reward, performance enablement and sensitive people issues
• Partner with the domain heads on hiring plans and resourcing, working with Ben our talent specialist and finance to build this into company-wide planning
• Supporting hiring in your domains in particularly busy hiring seasons
• Nurture a culture of continuous learning and radical candour

Requirements

It’s the perfect role for you if you:

• Have experience solving complex people problems
• Have experience in supporting senior business leaders, you're comfortable with coaching, supporting and debating them in decision-making
• Comfortable and capable across a range of HR/People areas, including performance enablement, progression and development, compensation and reward, coaching, employment law and compliance
• You are commercially minded, yet have empathy for individuals - you're comfortable in managing complex and often sensitive people issues that are fair, consistent and in line with Perlego's values
• Thrive in ambiguity, you're comfortable in environments which are still evolving and have a proven record of making impactful changes within them
• You understand and respect the role that data plays in building a talent & people function, you can confidently identify, analyse and use the right data points to drive decisions balanced with a healthy mix of intuition
• Have experience dealing with complex ER cases
• You have a specialism in Employee Experience; designing experiences that build engagement and performance
• Whether written or verbal, you are clear and articulate and understand the right language to use in different situations - you can bring people on the journey and sell a vision!

⭐️ It’s a plus if you have:

• Experience people partnering within tech
• Experience with Agile and/or Scrum
• Experience in talent from role design to hiring
• Have a coaching qualification or CIPD membership

What success looks like for this role

In 3 months you will have:

• Relationships: You’ll have built strong and trusting relationships with our domain heads
• Knowledge and Context: You’ll have a deep understanding of our business model and the context you operate within
• Engagement: You’ll have developed an engagement plan alongside our COO to inform our 2025 roadmap.
• Salary Reviews: You’ll have planned, and conducted a holistic, consistent and equitable companywide salary review process.

In 6 months you will have:

• Launched our new Talent Cycle: Our talent cycle was built in 2021 and after several iterations and a changing business you’ll have redesigned our Talent Cycle using Product Principles. Including but not limited to; how we review performance, development, and growth alongside our salary reviews.

Benefits

🌈 Benefits include:

✨ Compensation

The salary for this role is £55,000 + share options

Why should you work at Perlego?

Apart from our mission, we foster a unique company culture championing self-empowerment, personal development, direct communication and mutual support.

Want to learn more about how we’re making learning accessible? Check out our latest impact report

🏠 Flexible

We operate a flexible hybrid working environment. If you’re based in London, we’d expect to see you in the office twice a week, if you’re outside of London we’d expect to see you at least 6 times a quarter (hopefully at our quarterly socials 💃). If you’re looking for a 100% remote role, this one is not for you.

At Perlego, we empower you to work in a way that supports your needs and your life. We trust people to know what works best for them. Check out our Flexa profile to find out more.

🧠 L&D Budget

We value continuous learning and you will have a personal L&D budget for online courses, subscriptions or books not on Perlego.

🌱 Unlimited Coaching Opportunities

Unlimited access to MoreHappi, an on-demand professional coaching platform to offer all employees access to unbiased and professional coaching opportunities.

🤓 Learning Time

All employees have dedicated Learning Time to focus on new skills, projects or interests that lay outside of their day-to-day job, including Hackathons which bring our entire Engineering team together to work on exciting projects.

🌴 Work-Life Balance

Everyone needs a break, so enjoy 30 days off (incl. bank holidays) + 1 additional day annual leave for every year of service up to 35 days off (incl. bank holidays)

🛐 Flexi Bank Holidays

We understand that not everyone aligns with the same calendar; we offer the flexibility to take your local country's bank holiday allowance for other religious or cultural days.

e.g. switch UK Easter Bank Holidays Days for Eid celebrations

🗺 Work from overseas

We are also flexible if you wish to work remotely overseas for short periods of time, as long as you remain a UK tax resident

❄️ Office Reset

All employees can also enjoy the days between Boxing Day and New Year off, to reset and refresh for the new year - this is additional to your annual leave 🙂

🏖 Sabbatical

After three years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month unpaid sabbatical, and after five years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month paid sabbatical

💛 Personal Days

Life happens and we want you to be able to use your annual leave for resting, relaxing or taking time out to do something you love!

We offer 1 additional day a year for life events (your wedding, relocation, moving house, or a child starting school).

🍏 Health & Wellbeing

We want everyone to feel healthy and happy, so we offer private medical insurance via Vitality.

💭 Mental Health

All employees get access to therapy and counselling through Vitality

🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme

We're committed to building a sustainable business, so we encourage cycling to work. Perlego will buy your bike of choice, which you'll pay back over 12 months.

🎉 Social

We're a tight-knit bunch who enjoy our time to play. We have regular social events and activities for everyone - everything from white water rafting to board game nights.

🍼 Family time

We believe family is really important; we offer new parents a competitive matched parental leave as well as a phased return to work from extended leave.

👼 Workplace Nursery Benefit

We want to support working parents and carers, so we offer a workplace nursery benefit scheme, helping our employees potentially save thousands of £££ against the cost of nurseries each year.

👋 Belonging at Perlego

🌈 We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of thought and background.

❤️ We are actively building a diverse team, so we strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

📣 To enable an equitable experience for all and give you the best chance of success, if you have any specific requirements for any stage of the interview process, please let us know by emailing ben@perlego.com