Luminate
Senior Manager, People
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ABOUT LUMINATE
Luminate is a global foundation working to ensure that technology serves our needs and wellbeing. Founded by The Omidyar Group in 2018 and funded by Pierre and Pam Omidyar, we are a US foundation with an independent board of directors, operating through entities in the US, the UK, and Kenya. We ask who benefits from a technology, and who is harmed by it.
Digital technology must serve our needs and wellbeing. We know it has the potential to create connection, spark creativity, and provide a space of freedom and choice, because that was the promise of the early internet. But as state and corporate control tightened their grip on digital tools, that promise has narrowed. We want to change that trajectory, motivated by a radical vision: to restore the liberating potential of technology so that it serves the public good, planet, and people – particularly those historically marginalised.
In the end our pursuit isn’t really about technology at all. It’s about the world we want to live in.
We work in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, with staff in those regions, including in Nigeria and Kenya, and locations in London, Washington, DC, and Nairobi. A global ecosystems programme strengthens the field as a whole. Since 2018 we have supported more than 500 partners and moved around $370 million to the field, with 252 partnerships live today.
We do not bet on a single route to change. We fund policy engagement, strategic litigation, campaigning, and narrative work at once, and support organisations at every stage, from an idea that needs incubating to an institution that needs sustaining. We fund shared infrastructure that no single grantee would build alone, run our own advocacy where we can add something to it, and convene other funders to bring new resources into the field.
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ROLE
As Senior Manager, People, you are Luminate’s senior People practitioner and the day-to-day leader of the People function. You build and steward fair, effective, and scalable people practices for a globally distributed workforce, translating organisational needs, employment requirements, data, and employee insight into clear decisions and dependable practice.
You advise leaders and managers, lead the People team, manage external providers, and balance strategic foresight with hands-on delivery, so that people can do their best work in service of Luminate’s mission.
Primary System focus
- Luminate’s people system: the end-to-end employee lifecycle, including workforce planning and organisation design; talent acquisition and onboarding; performance, development, reward, and wellbeing; employee relations; and the data, policies, technology, and operating practices that connect them.
Secondary Systems focus
- Luminate’s internal operating system: the interaction of people, money, processes, technology, legal, and risk in enabling mission delivery.
- Candidate, employee, and manager experience: the journeys of people in their interactions with Luminate’s systems and leadership practices.
Employment type: Full Time
Team: Operations
Location: London, United Kingdom
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Reports to: Director, Finance & Operations
Manages: Manager, Compensation & Benefits; Coordinator, People.
Works closely with: COO; Executive and Leadership Team members; all people managers; General Counsel; Finance; Systems & IT; Operations; and external employment, payroll, benefits, EOR/PEO, recruitment, and other People partners.
Salary Range: The recruiting range for this role represents the entry point into the salary band (not the full range). Actual salary will be determined based on skills and experience.
- UK: £100,000–£125,000
Benefits: Visit our Careers page for more information.
HOW TO APPLY
Luminate is being supported in this hire by the executive search firm, Strategic Dimensions in the person of Ralph Finnon: Ralph@strategic-dimensions.co.uk
To see the full version of this job description and to apply for this role, click on the following link: BeApplied/SeniorManagerPeople
We expect a high volume of interest in this role. Ralph is therefore not able to hold speculative conversations with candidates ahead of application, but he is happy to answer specific questions about the role by email at: Ralph@strategic-dimensions.co.uk.
More information on Luminate can be found on our website: https://luminategroup.com
If you are shortlisted, we will invite you to the next step, which includes formal interviews and meeting select members of the team.
Applications are due by Sunday - 23 August 2026 at 11:59pm (UK time).
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