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Head of People

Head of People

Head of People

Head of People

Location:

London (in-office hybrid)

About Light

Light is a Smart Financial Platform (an SFP; not ERP, read our manifesto) set to make it easy, efficient, and transparent for multinational tech companies to manage their finances.

Come join one of Europe's strongest FinTech teams with people from Pleo, Juni, Google, X, AWS, Spotify, Klarna, etc., who are building a new category.

This Head of People role is focused on

  • Performance Reviews: designing and running a transparent, impactful process that helps high-performers thrive and keeps expectations clear.

  • Compensation Strategy: reviewing compensation across the company, making adjustments where needed, and building a scalable global compensation structure.

  • Talent Strategy: working closely with Talent Acquisition on an ambitious hiring plan to scale the team across Europe and beyond.

  • Employment Compliance: ensuring Light operates with compliance across multiple jurisdictions, keeping contracts, policies, and practices consistent and fit-for-purpose as we scale (with external legal support).

  • Onboarding: building and running a world-class onboarding process that gets every new connected with people and productive from day one.

  • Leadership Partnering: supporting Light’s leadership team with org design, people development, and building best practices.

  • Culture and Starsite: ensuring our values and hybrid ways of working scale with us, and leading the planning


How you fit into the team

You will be Light’s first Head of People, owning the people strategy end-to-end. This is not a classic HR role. It is about building a high-performance culture, creating a world-class employee experience, and designing systems that scale with growth. You will report directly to leadership and be a key partner shaping how Light grows its team globally.

Your qualifications could be

  • 4 - 7 years of experience in People, HR, or Talent roles, ideally in high-growth tech or FinTech scale-ups.

  • Strong track record building performance review systems that help teams grow.

  • Experience designing and implementing compensation structures across multiple markets.

  • Proven ability to create and execute hiring strategies with TA teams, scaling from dozens to hundreds of employees.

  • Experience building and running onboarding processes across an organisation.

  • Good working knowledge of employment compliance across the UK and Europe.

  • Trusted advisor to leadership with excellent communication skills.

Highly pragmatic: you know when to add structure and when to keep it lean.

Bonus points

  • Experience working in multinational and distributed teams.

  • Exposure to EU employment law or global frameworks

  • Background in leadership coaching, L&D, or scaling culture across geographies.

  • Experience organising company offsites or large-scale team events.

Built People functions from 0 to 1 in a startup.

Hiring process

  1. Intro chat with our Chief of Staff

  2. Interview with two future colleagues

  3. Interview with Investors

  4. Leadership interview

  5. Offer

Tips to stand out

  • Show how you have balanced structure and startup agility in past roles.

  • Share concrete examples of comp systems, onboarding, or hiring strategies you have designed.

  • Highlight experience with employment compliance in fast-scaling environments.

  • Share examples of culture-building initiatives or offsites you have led.

  • Be specific: show results in retention, engagement, hiring velocity, or onboarding impact.

  • Tell us why you want to help shape Light’s people strategy at this stage.

While this is the good stuff

In addition to being part of a great team and working in a really fun and innovative environment, we offer:

💸 Competitive salary + stock options in our fast-growing start-up
🍼 Paid parental leave
🏝 25 days of annual leave + public holidays in the UK
🥳 Regular socials and company Starsite off-sites (last time was Southern France and next one is in October)
🚀 A huge opportunity for career growth as you will help shape a market-defining product.

The famous last words

Working at Light means you are embarking on an exciting journey to reshape the future of multinational financial operations. Our cheat-code is that we have built something like this before and are now doing it again, only better. Our goal is to make global finance effortless and empower companies to make informed decisions.

If you are passionate, ambitious, want to build a high-performance culture and have fun while doing it, then we would love to hear from you at careers@light.inc.

🚀 Join the rocket ship while it is taking off 🚀

25+ team members, 10+ different countries.

25+ team members, 10+ different countries.

25+ team members, 10+ different countries.

Crafting from our HQ in London, and across Europe and the Americas.

Our core values

Our core values

We’re redefining ERP — shipping fast and joyful features built for finance. Join us to revolutionize the world’s largest and oldest software category.

Simple

We embrace simplicity in design, writing, code, and communication. The simplest solution is always preferred.

We embrace simplicity in design, writing, code, and communication. The simplest solution is always preferred.

We embrace simplicity in design, writing, code, and communication. The simplest solution is always preferred.

Fast

Speed is essential. A fast product creates better experiences and solves problems more effectively.

Speed is essential. A fast product creates better experiences and solves problems more effectively.

Speed is essential. A fast product creates better experiences and solves problems more effectively.

Clear

Our interfaces are intuitive, revealing complexity only when needed

Our interfaces are intuitive, revealing complexity only when needed

Our interfaces are intuitive, revealing complexity only when needed

Remote work, real connections.

Remote work, real connections.

Our culture thrives on joy. Each quarter, we unite for Starsite across iconic cities—Lisbon, Valencia, London, Copenhagen, Rome—where we align our vision and push boundaries together.

Meet the Commercials

After years of intense product development, Light has entered a high-velocity go-to-market phase. Companies are lining up, looking for an AI-native financial platform purpose-built for multi-entity accounting. Our team is fielding RFPs and onboarding new customers at a rapid pace.

From top-funnel marketing to sales, onboarding, and customer experience — the full go-to-market engine is in motion. Meet some of the team driving this momentum.

Meet the Commercials

After years of intense product development, Light has entered a high-velocity go-to-market phase. Companies are lining up, looking for an AI-native financial platform purpose-built for multi-entity accounting. Our team is fielding RFPs and onboarding new customers at a rapid pace.

From top-funnel marketing to sales, onboarding, and customer experience — the full go-to-market engine is in motion. Meet some of the team driving this momentum.

Meet the Commercials

After years of intense product development, Light has entered a high-velocity go-to-market phase. Companies are lining up, looking for an AI-native financial platform purpose-built for multi-entity accounting. Our team is fielding RFPs and onboarding new customers at a rapid pace.

From top-funnel marketing to sales, onboarding, and customer experience — the full go-to-market engine is in motion. Meet some of the team driving this momentum.

Meet the Engineers

Behind the scenes of Light’s rapid growth is a world-class team of engineers and product builders. These are the minds crafting the AI-native financial platform that’s reshaping how companies manage multi-entity accounting.

From real-time reporting to automated workflows and scalable architecture, they’re turning complex financial operations into intuitive user experiences. After years of building, they’re now shipping faster than ever.

Meet some of the people building Light.

Meet the Engineers

Behind the scenes of Light’s rapid growth is a world-class team of engineers and product builders. These are the minds crafting the AI-native financial platform that’s reshaping how companies manage multi-entity accounting.

From real-time reporting to automated workflows and scalable architecture, they’re turning complex financial operations into intuitive user experiences. After years of building, they’re now shipping faster than ever.

Meet some of the people building Light.

Meet the Engineers

Behind the scenes of Light’s rapid growth is a world-class team of engineers and product builders. These are the minds crafting the AI-native financial platform that’s reshaping how companies manage multi-entity accounting.

From real-time reporting to automated workflows and scalable architecture, they’re turning complex financial operations into intuitive user experiences. After years of building, they’re now shipping faster than ever.

Meet some of the people building Light.

Join a team united by craftsmanship

Join a team united by craftsmanship

We’re redefining ERP — shipping fast and joyful features built for finance. Join us to revolutionize the world’s largest and oldest software category.