People Ops & Talent Manager (GBP 70-78K - Bonus, Work Remotely, Share Options)

Type: Full time

Salary: £70-78K + bonuses

Location: Remote (work from anywhere within at least +/- 2 hours of UK time)

👋 Meet The Guru

Resource Guru is a blissfully simple scheduling tool that helps busy teams stay on track.

We boost efficiency, improve resource utilisation, and increase project profitability - while promoting a healthy work/life balance.

We’re proud to be one of the leaders in our category, trusted by customers in over 100 countries - including top creative agencies like Publicis, TBWA, Grey, BBH, and M&C Saatchi, as well as household names like NASA, Accenture, CNN, Kraft Heinz, and the NHS. They rely on Resource Guru to manage one of their most valuable assets - their people’s time.

We’re a small, fully remote team based across the UK and Europe. We collaborate mainly via Slack, with occasional meetups to connect, plan, and celebrate. See if this is the right place for you.

⭐️ The Role

This is a hybrid role, combining people operations with recruitment. You will therefore need to be skilled and interested in both. You will play a critical role in shaping our most important asset - our people! 

You will be responsible for all aspects of people operations, including, but not limited to, overseeing onboarding, performance, and development, ensuring compliance with employment laws, and planning our annual company retreat (Guru Gathering).

You will be our in-house recruiter. Sourcing highly effective talent, lowering recruitment costs, and maintaining the high bar that we’ve set. We anticipate hiring will account for ~10-20% of the role.

🤝 What You’ll Be Doing

Your day-to-day could include (not an exhaustive list):

Hiring & Onboarding

• Manage the recruitment workflow from end to end. Including defining job specs, defining salaries, sourcing and screening candidates, coordinating interviews, managing offers/rejections etc
• Coordinate interviews and offers
• Oversee onboarding processes and documentation
• Help build our brand as an employer to attract top talent

Employee Experience & Culture

• Promote team engagement and wellbeing. Including cultivating our remote culture and fostering healthy remote working practices
• Plan company events/retreats like Guru Gathering (annual company retreat)
• Facilitate feedback cycles (e.g. surveys, 1:1s)
• Organise seasonal and milestone celebrations (e.g. Christmas gifts, anniversaries)

Performance & Development

• Support performance review processes
• Track development goals and learning initiatives
• Recommend training or coaching resources

Policies & Compliance

• Maintain employee handbook and HR policies
• Ensure compliance with employment laws - liaising with external professionals when required
• Manage visa or right-to-work documentation

HR Admin & Systems

• Own the HRIS (HiBob)
• Manage time off, sick leave, and benefits
• Handle contracts, changes in terms, references, etc.

Payroll & Benefits

• Liaise with finance/payroll providers
• Administer employee benefits and budgets (training/conference/coworking budgets etc.)

💎 What We’re Looking For

Essential

• A track record of success as a recruiter
• Experienced in recruitment technologies, utilising top attraction channels, job boards, and social networking to build candidate talent pools
• Skilled interviewer, excellent judgment. Quickly assess candidate suitability with diverse techniques
• Excellent negotiation skills
• Quick-thinking and highly detail-oriented
• Great communicator with excellent English
• Confident using AI tools to streamline tasks like drafting docs, onboarding, and surveys, with awareness of limits, compliance, and ethics
• Experience of process creation and documentation
• Experience of managing contracts, compensation and benefits design, onboarding etc
• Performance management
• Excellent organisational skills
• A solid grasp of employment law
• ATS experience
• Comfortable working autonomously and wearing many hats
• Passion for employee wellbeing, engagement, and development
• A CIPD qualification (or a strong desire to train)

Nice to have

• Experience working in a startup or fast-paced company
• Project management experience

🤝 Why You Might Love It Here

• You’ll get autonomy and trust to own your domain.
• You’ll be at the centre of a supportive and high-performing team.
• You’ll shape and improve the inner workings of a growing SaaS business.
• You’ll work closely with experienced founders.
• We embrace AI tools to work smarter, not harder—whether it’s drafting a doc, cleaning data, or speeding up research.
• We’re remote-friendly, flexible, and believe work should support your life—not consume it.
• You’ll have the opportunity to grow your HR and recruitment skills.
• We value a focused workplace free from political agendas and culture wars—where we prioritise great work, happy customers, and shared success.

✅ Our Interview Process

• Meet with Meredith (Talent/People Ops): 25-30m video call. Meredith will tell you a bit more about what it’s like to be on Team Guru. Please come prepared with any questions about our company ways of working or team structure.
• Meet with Andrew (cofounder): 45-60m video call. This will follow a typical interview format with an opportunity for you to ask questions and learn more about the role.
• Meet with Percy (cofounder): 45-60m video call. This will follow a typical interview format with an opportunity for you to ask questions and learn more about the role.
• Reference checks
• Offer! ✨

⭐️ What We’re Offering

• A great salary
• Stock options
• Work from anywhere you like (within at least +/- 2 hours of UK time) - co-working space will be provided if necessary
• 30 days paid holiday + Dec 24 - Jan 1 company holiday
• Birthday off + house move day off
• Flexible hours
• Annual training and conference allowance - £3,000
• A home office equipment contribution upon joining (then every 3 years) - £1,000
• Budget to visit local or international colleagues 
• Monthly health & wellbeing contribution - to be used as you see fit - £100
• Pension contribution
• International travel - We host Guru Gatherings where we all get a chance to see each other in HD 🌎 Past locations have included Budapest, Dublin, London, Barcelona and Cape Town. Read more about our most recent trip here