HR Business Partner - Immediate Start - Leading Frontier AI Lab (Paying up to £140k + Equity

Role: HR Business Partner

Location: London, 2 days per week

Salary: Up to £140,000 + Equity

Hawkwood is partnering with one of the most highly regarded frontier AI labs in the world as they continue to scale at an extraordinary pace. The team is moving quickly and we are particularly interested in speaking with exceptional Strategic HR Business Partners who are immediately available or on a short notice period.

Working closely with the CTO and his wider leadership team, this role offers the chance to operate inside a business tackling some of the most ambitious and technically complex challenges in AI today. You’ll be working alongside some of the strongest technical minds in the world, supporting teams solving problems that have not been tackled before.

The environment is ambitious, highly technical and constantly evolving. This role will suit someone who enjoys being close to senior decision making, influencing exceptional technical talent and helping shape how a company scales in real time. There is already strong global People leadership in place, but this role will play a key part in partnering on strategy, driving execution and helping the organisation navigate significant growth over the coming years.

Role Scope:

• Partner closely with the CTO and senior leadership team on organisational design, leadership capability and talent priorities
• Support the development and delivery of key people initiatives across performance, compensation and workforce planning
• Work alongside senior People leadership to build scalable approaches fit for a rapidly growing frontier AI lab
• Coach and influence leaders across engineering and research teams on management, performance and team effectiveness
• Bring structure and sound judgement to a business operating through constant change and rapid growth
• Help evolve the foundations of a company expected to scale significantly over the next few years

Who We Are Looking For:

• Experience operating as a Senior HR Business Partner or People Director within high growth scale up environments
• Candidates who can start quickly or are on a short notice period
• A strong track record partnering with CTOs, engineering leaders or deeply technical teams
• Experience working in VC backed environments where pace, ambiguity and growth are constant
• High levels of judgement, credibility and commercial instinct
• Comfortable operating with autonomy while remaining highly collaborative

We recognise how challenging this current job market is for candidates, and Hawkwood are therefore striving to provide the best candidate experience we can.

If you are interested in this opportunity, we kindly request that you apply via this LinkedIn advert, as opposed to sending us an email or LinkedIn direct message. We are eager to ensure that each candidate application is considered fairly, and receives a consistent experience. Unfortunately, we cannot ensure this standard if you enquire about a role via email or LinkedIn message, as it falls outside of our established process.