HR Lead (Head of People)

Must-have:

• 4+ years of HR experience, including 2+ years owning the HR function in an international company of 50 to 200 people.
• Hands-on experience doing the operational HR craft yourself: employment and B2B contracts, addendums, onboarding and offboarding admin, and stepping into recruitment when needed.
• Independent labor law judgment in at least one CEE jurisdiction (CZ, SK or PL), including contract drafting and routine legal decisions without waiting for counsel.
• Proven experience building working automations yourself in Make (or similar) and an ATS such as Workable, plus active use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT or similar) in your daily workflow for drafting, analysis and reporting. We will ask about this concretely.
• Track record of building or rebuilding HR processes end-to-end and owning the result, not only the design.
• You are as good with people as you are with systems. You can hold a hard conversation, sit with someone on a bad day, and tell a manager something they do not want to hear. We will ask you about a process you rebuilt and how you knew it started working for people, not only on paper.
• English at C1 level, written and spoken, including leadership and board settings.
• Native or fluent level in Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian or Romanian.
• Scale-up DNA. You have worked somewhere the process did not exist yet and you built it anyway. You decide with incomplete information, you are fine with priorities changing mid-quarter, and you ship the version that works now instead of waiting for the perfect one. Small budget, no team, still done. :)
• Experience in a remote company running B2C and B2B models side by side.
• Payroll or contractor setup experience in HU, RO or other CEE markets beyond CZ/SK/PL.
• Experience supporting physical locations alongside a fully remote team.