People Lead, UK

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London
Workplace: OnsiteFull timeFunction: Administration & Executive AssistanceSkills: ["Organizational skills","Attention to detail","Communication","Autonomy","Hands-on execution"]

Own and build Modal’s first People function in the UK—handling London onboarding/offboarding, payroll coordination, benefits administration, and UK employment compliance. Act as the trusted point of contact for employees on people matters, keep people data accurate while standing up a local HRIS, and ensure consistent time-off and policy communication. Also steward the London office experience, coordinate local events, and run recruiting operations with the global Talent team.

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People Lead, UK

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Job Summary

Own and build Modal’s first People function in the UK—handling London onboarding/offboarding, payroll coordination, benefits administration, and UK employment compliance. Act as the trusted point of contact for employees on people matters, keep people data accurate while standing up a local HRIS, and ensure consistent time-off and policy communication. Also steward the London office experience, coordinate local events, and run recruiting operations with the global Talent team.
Location: London
Workplace: Onsite
Employment Type: Full time
Job Function: Administration & Executive Assistance
Seniority: Sr. Manager level

Key Responsibilities

  • •Own core People operations for the London team, including onboarding/offboarding, payroll coordination, and benefits administration
  • •Serve as the trusted point of contact for London employees on policies, benefits, pay, and people matters
  • •Support managers with team setup and early identification/escalation of performance or people issues
  • •Maintain clean people data and help operationalize the new HRIS locally
  • •Run recruiting operations for the London office and coordinate local office operations and team experience

Key Requirements

  • •5+ years experience in a People Ops or People & Talent generalist role, ideally in a fast-growing tech environment
  • •Working knowledge of UK employment norms, compliance, and labor environments
  • •Comfortable working autonomously and owning outcomes with minimal oversight
  • •Strong organizational skills and attention to detail
  • •Clear, thoughtful communication with candidates, employees, and stakeholders
Experience:Fast-growing tech
Skills:Organizational skillsAttention to detailCommunicationAutonomyHands-on execution
Tech Stack:HRIS

Company Brief

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Provides a serverless, high-performance cloud platform for AI, ML, and data workloads — offering instant autoscaling, elastic GPU access, and developer-first tooling to run inference, training, and batch jobs at scale.
Industry: Cloud Computing
Company Size: Small (11 to 50 employees)
Growth: Growth Stage Startup
Valuation: Unicorn (USD 1B+)
Funding: Series B
Headquarters: New York City, United States
Founded: 2021
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