Job Description

Head of People Performance

Smarkets is a betting exchange for sports and political trading that has handled over \xc2\xa329 billion in volume since 2010. We are upending the sports betting industry by growing a transparent platform that offers the best value for bettors, with not only the fairest odds but also the best technology, alongside a superior customer experience.

We believe the foundation to our success is attracting the best people to our organisation and creating a high performance environment where they can thrive. We are searching for an atypical candidate with a wealth of business experience to use their commercial mindset to put our people and hiring teams at the centre of our strategic success.

This is a key role working across the business at a senior level and reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer. You will be responsible for driving a performance culture, managing the hiring process, providing comprehensive support across the employee lifecycle and managing our company values, people processes and policies.

About You:

• Have a deep desire to improve the typical approach to the hiring and HR functions.
• 5+ years experience as a senior business leader in a tech environment, ideally in a commercial or operations role with significant exposure to the people function.
• Commercial mindset, with a strong understanding of general operations and what it takes to run a successful company.
• Direct experience building high performance teams, improving efficiency and delivering highly robust and reliable process execution.
• Familiarity with employment laws and HR procedures in the UK and US and appetite to become a subject matter expert.
• High attention to detail, data driven approach and thrive in an agile, fast-paced environment.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, enabling you to communicate effectively with stakeholders from Leadership Team to entry level employees.
• Comfortable with strategic planning processes such as OKRs and able to assist in driving goal setting across the business.
• You get satisfaction from winning and substantive results, not simply from pleasing people.

Responsibilities

• Own the delivery of a best in class performance lifecycle, including employee coaching, feedback, compensation, and goal setting.
• Ensure provision of people operations to service 90+ employees from 20 countries, to cover employee lifecycle including employee onboarding, off-boarding, on-call; payroll and benefit operation, etc.
• Manage the internal talent team and ensure effective delivery of the end-to-end recruitment strategy and pipelines in line with business goals.
• Deliver a best-in-class physical office environment to support a high performance business.
• Act as the champion for Smarkets values and embed these in our ways of working across the business.
• Ensure all current policies and procedures are kept up-to-date and in line with employment legislation.
• Deliver people-related strategies, including performance management, professional development schemes, progression frameworks, and rewards.
• Provide coaching, direction, and leadership support to team members in order to achieve a learning organization.

Our Values

• Push to win
• Make others better
• Give a shit
• Be a pro
• Bring the energy

Our Culture

Our mission at Smarkets is to fix the betting industry with the best products and best prices. Smarkets is a Series B tech company that brings a professional, product-led approach to the sports and political betting market with a sophisticated platform that has handled over \xc2\xa329 billion in traded volume since 2010.

We embrace collaboration, trust, innovation and scientific rigour, while we celebrate ambitious goals and passionate energy. We push ourselves to be the best and lean into challenges to ensure that we are continually developing at both an individual and organisational level. This has enabled us to be where we are today and leads us to where we want to be next.

Our culture rewards people on merit and excellence and we strive to provide a working environment where recognition, challenges, support, collaboration, interesting benefits and shared meals provided by our chefs mix together to let you unlock your potential, grow with us and become your best self.

Smarkets is an equal opportunities employer and takes active steps to prevent bias and discrimination in our interview process. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or gender identity.

We will not be providing visa sponsorship for this role.

Smarkets