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Requirements
• Help Tessl maintain a strong, high-trust culture as the company grows. • Work closely with the Employee Experience team member to ensure employees have a smooth, thoughtful experience across the employee lifecycle. • Be a visible, approachable and trusted presence for employees. • Help reinforce Tessl’s operating principles, including AI-native ways of working. • TALENT INTERFACE • Work closely with the Talent team and hiring managers to ensure hiring, onboarding and people processes connect smoothly. • Support hiring quality, interviewer readiness and candidate-to-employee transition. • Over time, there may be scope to take on broader oversight of Talent, depending on business needs and your strengths. • Strong generalist HR / People experience in a high-growth technology company. • Experience operating in a lean People team, ideally in a VC-backed startup or scale-up environment. • Strong hands-on people operations experience, including payroll coordination, benefits, HRIS, onboarding, offboarding and compliance. • Experience supporting managers with performance, employee relations, compensation and team effectiveness. • Comfortable working with technical teams, ideally Engineering, Product, R&D or developer-focused environments. • Working knowledge of UK employment matters; exposure to US employment practices would be helpful. • Experience with tools such as Deel, Ashby, Notion and Slack, or similar systems. • You will likely thrive at Tessl if you are: • Operationally strong: you care about accuracy, detail and reliability. You know that getting the basics right matters. • Commercial and pragmatic: you understand stage, pace and trade-offs. You do not over-engineer. • Credible with managers: you can build trust, give sound advice and handle sensitive issues calmly. • Comfortable with ambiguity: you can operate where there is not always a perfect process or obvious answer. • Low ego and hands-on: you are happy doing the operational work yourself while also helping build for scale. • AI-curious: you actively use AI tools in your work and are excited by how they can improve people operations. • Resilient and calm: you can operate in a fast-moving, high-pressure environment and provide stability to others. • Growth-oriented: you want to learn, stretch and build breadth as the company scales.
Responsibilities
• PEOPLE OPERATIONS & HR INFRASTRUCTURE • Own the core employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, payroll coordination, benefits administration, right-to-work checks and employee records. • Maintain accurate, reliable people data across systems including Deel, Ashby, Notion and Slack. • Work closely with Finance and external vendors to ensure payroll, benefits and employee changes are processed correctly and on time. • Own and improve HR processes, policies and standard operating procedures, ensuring they are clear, compliant and scalable. • Manage visa and immigration processes, working with external counsel where needed. • Ensure Tessl remains compliant across UK employment matters, with working knowledge of US employment considerations. • Identify opportunities to use AI and automation to make people operations faster, smarter and more scalable. • PEOPLE PARTNERING & MANAGER SUPPORT • Act as a trusted first point of contact for managers across the business, particularly within Engineering, Product and R&D. • Support managers with compensation benchmarking, performance conversations, team changes and employee issues. • Help managers build the fundamentals of good people management, including feedback, team cadence, performance management and difficult conversations. • Handle employee relations matters with discretion, judgement and empathy, escalating where appropriate. • Partner with the General Counsel & Head of Operations on more complex or legally sensitive people matters.
Benefits
• Support performance review cycles, compensation calibration and benchmarking. • Help build practical frameworks for feedback, progression and career development. • Bring structure and consistency to people decisions while keeping processes lightweight and appropriate for Tessl’s stage. • Use data and insight to spot trends, inform decisions and support leadership discussions. • We offer a competitive salary, employee share options and benefits benchmarked against the market. • 25 days holiday • Health insurance, including dental and vision, extending to partners and dependents • Company-matched pension • Commuting stipend for those living outside London • Cycle to work scheme • Regular team lunches, drinks and social events • Generous office catering • Our office is a new 10,000 sq. ft space in King’s Cross, at the centre of London’s AI ecosystem. We work together in the office on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday. • We care deeply about the warm, inclusive environment we’re building at Tessl and we value diversity – we welcome applications from those typically underrepresented in tech. If you like the sound of this role but are not totally sure whether you’re the right person, do apply anyway! • LEARN HOW WE THINK AND WORK • On Tessl, The AI Native Development Startup https://www.tessl.io/blog/announcing-tessl-the-ai-native-development-startup • Announcing skills on Tessl: the package manager for agent skills https://tessl.io/blog/skills-are-software-and-they-need-a-lifecycle-introducing-skills-on-tessl/ • Podcast Episode: The End of Fragmented Agent Context, Guy Podjarny Tessl CEO https://youtu.be/ntkM-hRblfo
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