About Light

At Light, we’re on a mission to replace the ERP. Traditional systems are slow, painful to implement, and built for factories — not modern companies. Our Smart Financial Platform (SFP) is built for today’s global, service-based businesses, automating accounting, reporting, and financial flows with speed and simplicity.

In just a short time, we’ve gone from idea to powering operations for leading companies like Lovable, Legora, and Keyshot. We build with our customers, ship at high velocity, and obsess over making finance software that people actually love to use.

You’re joining an early-stage company defining a new software category, backed by top investors including Balderton, Atomico, Cherry Ventures, Seedcamp, and Entrée Capital. Our advisory board includes the former CTO of Workday Financials, the Chief Architect of SAP S/4HANA along with EY and Oracle SVPs. At Light, you’ll work with exceptional people, build category-defining products, and have the freedom to shape something truly transformative.

Visa sponsorship available for exceptional candidates

The Head of People role

As Head of People at Light, you will build and scale the team shaping the future of finance software. You’ll own the full people function from talent strategy and hiring to culture, performance, and development. You’ll work closely with the founders to design how we grow: who we hire, how we work, and what it feels like to be part of Light.

You’ll have the autonomy to build from first principles, create an exceptional employee experience, and help scale one of Europe’s most exciting early-stage companies.

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.

What you will be doing

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

• Compensation Strategy: Review compensation across the company, make adjustments where needed, and build a scalable global compensation structure.

• Talent Strategy: Partner with Talent Acquisition on an ambitious hiring plan to add 30 people to the team across both departments and geographies (Europe and US) in the next 12 months. We’ve in the process of implementing Ashby.

• Employment Compliance: Ensure Light operates compliantly across multiple jurisdictions, keeping contracts, policies, and practices consistent and fit-for-purpose as we scale (with external legal support). We’re a mix of FTEs, contractors and EORs.

• People Onboarding: Build and run a world-class onboarding process that connects every new joiner with people and makes them productive from day one.

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

• Culture and Starsite: Ensure our values and hybrid ways of working scale with us, and lead the planning and organisation of our Starsite offsites as a core part of Light’s culture. We run Starsites two times a year.

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.

Bonus points

• Trusted advisor to leadership with excellent communication skills.

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

• Experience working in multinational and distributed teams.

• 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.

Tips to stand out

When applying, we’d love to hear how you’ve balanced structure with startup agility in past roles. Share concrete examples of compensation systems, onboarding programs, or hiring strategies you’ve built, and your experience managing employment compliance in fast-scaling environments. Tell us about culture-building initiatives or offsites you’ve led, and the results you’ve driven in retention, engagement, or hiring velocity. Most importantly, explain why you want to help shape Light’s people strategy at this stage.

What to expect in our hiring process

1. Intro chat with our Chief of Staff

2. Interview with COO

3. Interview with Investors

4. Interview with CEO

5. Offer

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 🚀