Head of People (Interim)

Nory AI, Inc.

Job Overview

Location

London

Job Type

Full-time

Full Job Description

📋 Description

• Serve as the interim Head of People (June 2026 – mid-January 2027), reporting to the acting VP People & Talent, to drive strategic HR initiatives during a critical growth phase post-Series B.
• Partner directly with leaders across the organisation to provide pragmatic, legally grounded advice on people operations, grounded in UK employment law and informed by Irish and US experience where applicable.
• Coach managers to lead with impact by building a strong feedback culture and enabling effective leadership practices across all teams.
• Lead the overhaul of Nory’s performance review process to integrate AI-enabled tools, ensuring alignment with operational goals and scalable feedback mechanisms.
• Define and implement Nory’s total rewards strategy, including compensation, benefits, and recognition frameworks tailored to global teams in Ireland, the UK, Spain, and New York.
• Oversee the end-to-end implementation and rollout of Rippling as Nory’s new global payroll system and HRIS, ensuring seamless adoption and data integrity.
• Own the full employee lifecycle—from hiring to offboarding—and continuously challenge existing processes to improve the employee experience.
• Protect and strengthen Nory’s high-performance culture by reinforcing clarity of outcomes, accountability, and lived company values across all locations.
• Act as second-in-command to the VP People & Talent, driving key People priorities with urgency and ownership during a period of rapid scaling.
• Support and enhance hiring processes to deliver on Nory’s H2 2026 workforce plan, ensuring timely and quality talent acquisition across international markets.
• Leverage AI-native tools to improve efficiency in hiring, onboarding, and scaling operations, moving beyond tolerance of technology to active optimisation.
• Maintain operational agility by balancing immediate priorities with long-term structural improvements, avoiding rigidity while ensuring compliance and consistency.
• Work from Nory’s London office, with the flexibility to work remotely for up to three months per year across global time zones.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure HR initiatives align with Nory’s core values: serving impact with profit, speed of service, acting like owners, and winning as a crew.
• Contribute to building a diverse, inclusive workplace by welcoming applicants from all backgrounds and ensuring equitable practices in all people processes.
• Maintain awareness of international HR nuances, particularly in the US and Ireland, to support Nory’s global expansion and cultural integration.
• Utilise the €1,000 annual learning & development budget and quarterly book allowance to continuously grow as a people leader.
• Operate with energy, urgency, and ownership—driving change without compromising culture during a high-growth, fast-paced environment.

🎯 Requirements

• Proven experience leading People functions in a startup or high-growth environment
• Expertise in UK employment law, with additional experience in Ireland and/or US labour regulations preferred
• Hands-on experience implementing and scaling Rippling as an HRIS and global payroll system
• Demonstrated success in designing and rolling out AI-enabled performance management systems
• Strong track record of building high-performance cultures while scaling teams across multiple countries
• Ability to operate with autonomy, prioritise effectively, and balance urgent operational needs with strategic initiatives

🏖️ Benefits

• Competitive salary with meaningful equity ownership
• 35 days of paid leave per year, including bank holidays
• Comprehensive private health insurance via Irish Life (Ireland) and Axa (UK)
• Enhanced parental leave and baby loss support
• €1,000 annual learning & development budget plus quarterly book allowance
• €250 home office workspace budget
• Ability to work remotely for up to three months per year
• Regular team offsites and social events
• Offices located in London, UK

Skills & Technologies

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About Nory AI, Inc.

Nory AI, Inc. builds an AI-driven platform that helps product and engineering teams generate, manage, and operationalize product requirements, user stories, and technical specs. The platform ingests existing product docs, tickets, and roadmaps to produce structured requirements, acceptance criteria, and test cases, and offers integrations with issue trackers (e.g., Jira) and collaboration tools to synchronize artifacts. Nory emphasizes traceability from high-level goals to implementation tasks, automated prioritization signals, and exportable templates to reduce manual requirements work. The company targets startups and mid‑size engineering organizations seeking to speed discovery, reduce rework, and improve alignment between product and engineering.

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