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About Us
At Founders Pledge, our mission is to empower entrepreneurs to do immense good with their charitable giving. Since launching in 2015, our community of over 2,200 members has pledged nearly $13.6B and donated $1.8B+ to the charitable sector in 45+ countries.
We provide end-to-end giving infrastructure, pioneering research, and access to a global network of experts. In other words, we help tech leaders become strategic philanthropists. Our members include founders and leaders behind companies such as Airbnb, UiPath, Dropbox, Skype, Spotify, and Uber.
We focus on deploying capital where it can achieve the greatest impact, guided by evidence, careful analysis, and long-term thinking.
About the Role
We’re currently looking for a People Director—an experienced senior people generalist—to own our people strategy end-to-end and play a central role in shaping the culture, performance, and growth of an organization doing some of the most ambitious work in philanthropy.
This is genuinely a two-in-one role: on the strategic side, you’ll be a key advisor to our CEO and senior leadership team, shaping org design, building the people strategy, and envisioning sustainable growth for a high-performing global team. On the operational side, you’ll manage day-to-day needs—overseeing payroll, employee relations, compliance across three jurisdictions, and ensuring the People function runs smoothly. Neither side is an afterthought—we need someone who thrives in both complexity and execution, moving seamlessly between them.
You’ll lead a distributed team of four across the UK and US, reporting directly to our CEO. If you’re looking for a role where you can make a real mark on how we work, grow, and empower teams, we’d love to hear from you.
What You’ll Do
You’ll set the direction for and be accountable for the full people agenda at Founders Pledge—spanning from long-term strategy to day-to-day operations, across hiring, performance, compliance, culture, and beyond.
Your Key Responsibilities Include:
- Strategic HR leadership:
- Act as a trusted advisor, coach, and sounding board to the CEO and senior leadership team on all matters related to people and culture.
- Organizational design and change:
- Lead initiatives to restructure teams as we scale, ensuring agility and impact.
- Manager enablement:
- Coach and support managers in performance management, feedback, and leadership development.
- Oversee organisational learning and development, including collaboration on our annual global offsite.
- Talent acquisition and onboarding:
- Oversee end-to-end hiring and onboarding, ensuring a high-quality experience aligned with our values.
- Total rewards:
- Design and oversee competitive, equitable global compensation and benefits, attracting top talent.
- Employee relations and compliance:
- Be the key point of contact for employee relations, ensuring legal, ethical, and pastoral obligations are met across UK, US, and Germany.
- People team leadership:
- Lead, develop, and inspire a team of four in a distributed environment.
- Operational excellence:
- Maintain the headcount model and people budget, collaborating with our CFO.
- Provide performance data to the CEO.
- Drive workforce planning and process improvements, leveraging technology and AI.
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What We’re Looking for
You’re a seasoned people leader who thrives in fast-moving, scaling organisations—where building things trumps routine maintenance. You combine gravitas and warmth: equally comfortable in a C-suite strategy session as you are tackling compliance issues or updating HR policies. You’re data-driven, emotionally intelligent, and motivated to shape culture and performance in an organisation that does genuinely meaningful work.
Key Requirements:
- Significant senior HR/People experience: A track record in People Director or Head of People roles, ideally at scaling SMEs, startups, or non-profits, with experience managing international teams.
- Expertise in UK and US employment: Deep knowledge of employment law, payroll, and compliance (German experience is a plus).
- Strategic and operational range: Ability to blend high-level strategy with hands-on execution, with passion for both.
- Executive influence: Experience coaching, influencing, and partnering with CEOs and executives.
- People analytics: Comfortable using HR data and analytics to drive decisions.
- Change management: Proven ability to lead transformation in complex, distributed settings.
- Exceptional interpersonal skills: Strong emotional intelligence, trust-building, and sensitivity in managing employee relations.
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Location and Travel Requirements
You’ll need to live within commutable distance of London, with expectations to be in the office 1-2 days per week (or more if preferred). The team is globally distributed across the UK and US, so you’ll need comfort working across time zones.
Travel Expectations:
- We host the global team in the UK once a year for a week-long offsite (collaborative learning, networking, bonding).
- Each team convenes at least once a year for regional gatherings.
- You’ll also need to travel to the US at least once a year to meet with teams.
Application Deadline
Applications accepted until EOD 15th July 2026.
Why Work With Us?
You can find our benefits here, but what truly defines us is our mission and people. We’re a diverse team from charitable and commercial backgrounds, united by the belief that amazing outcomes emerge when we collaborate.
We’re shaping a learning-driven advisory environment, where advisors both support member journeys and co-create tools that elevate how our community gives.
Key Commitments:
- Equal opportunity employer: We value diversity, including different strengths, experiences, and backgrounds.
- Mission-driven: Innovation and equity in philanthropy are central to our vision.
- Supportive culture: No cutthroat environments here. We bring out different perspectives and unique problem-solving approaches.
We don’t discriminate on the basis of race, religion, colour, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.
If you’re passionate about our mission but don’t fit every tick-box, we still encourage you to apply.
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