The Talent Collective
Embedded Senior HR Generalist
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About The Talent Collective
The Talent Collective partners with tech companies, scale-ups, venture capital firms, and impact organisations across EMEA, AMERICAS, and Middle East. Beyond talent acquisition, we bring a new embedded, on-demand model to HR giving growing companies access to senior HR expertise without the cost or commitment of a full-time hire.
We embed our people directly into client teams on a flexible, monthly basis. We build internal capability and leave behind the IP, processes, and infrastructure that belong to the client. Our approach is practical, human-centred, and outcome-driven: we solve real problems rather than build frameworks for their own sake.
Role Overview
We're looking for Immediately Available Senior HR Generalists to embed directly into our clients' teams and own the people function end-to-end. You'll operate at Senior IC level, acting as the trusted HR partner combining strategic foresight with genuine hands-on execution.
You'll typically lead a client engagement from day one, getting operational within 24 hours, assessing the landscape quickly, and delivering immediately. Depending on the engagement, you may also guide a Junior HR Generalist supporting the same or other clients. This is a role for someone who is adaptive, pragmatic, human-centred, and comfortable with being uncomfortable.
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How You'll Work
Our HR-as-a-Service offering is built on four service lines. Whatever your level, your day-to-day work will sit across these areas, adapted to your experience and the needs of each client engagement:
01 — Interim HR Lead or HR Generalist
On-demand people management for starting or growing companies: employee relations, people operations, performance management, policy and compliance, HR strategy and workforce planning, and the full employee experience.
02 — People Operations & HR Tooling Implementation
Building and optimising HR systems, processes, and the tooling stack: HRIS selection and implementation, process design and automation, contracting, payroll and HR administration, lifecycle workflow design, and data and reporting.
03 — HR Foundations & HR for Funding Rounds
Setting the people function from scratch or preparing it for rapid scaling: HR-tool selection and implementation, process design and execution, due diligence preparation, org design and headcount planning, talent and retention frameworks, handbooks, policy creation, and anything needed to get the HR function up and running or ready to scale.
04 — HR Audits, Exits & M&A
HR due diligence and risk management for mergers, acquisitions, restructuring, and exits: identifying and mitigating people-related risks to protect value during transactions and organisational change.
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What You'll Bring
- 5+ years of progressive HR / People Operations experience, including senior generalist or Head-of-People-level ownership of a function.
- A strong track record across multiple HR domains: operations, employee relations, org design, compensation, and compliance, in high-growth tech, SaaS, or impact organisations.
- Solid knowledge of employment frameworks across more than one EMEA market, and comfort navigating multi-market and cross-border people issues.
- Hands-on experience implementing HR tooling (HRIS, payroll, EOR platforms) and building processes from scratch.
- The credibility and emotional intelligence to advise founders and senior leaders, and the practicality to execute the work yourself.
- Experience supporting funding rounds, audits, or M&A is a strong plus.
- Fluent English; additional EMEA languages welcome. Comfortable working asynchronously across time zones.
Why Join Us
You'll work at the heart of growing companies at pivotal moments, embedding into real teams, solving real problems, and leaving behind people infrastructure that lasts. You get the variety of consulting with the depth of an in-house role, the autonomy to run engagements your way, and a collaborative, non-hierarchical team behind you.
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