People Lead

Role Overview

• Lead and empower a high-performing People team ensuring each function (People Operations and Talent,) delivers exceptional, measurable impact.
• Set the vision and strategy for the people agenda, ensuring Ravio continues to provide a world-class employee experience as we grow.
• You will represent Ravio at formal and informal People events, engaging with peers on compensation topics through public speaking, panel participation, and hosting discussions.
• You’ll also display thought leadership and a willingness to build a visible personal brand by contributing to LinkedIn and People People community groups.
• Oversee People Operations and all HR Business Partnering, owning the design and delivery of programmes that shape every moment of the employee lifecycle.
• Drive employee engagement, ensuring we listen deeply, act thoughtfully, and continuously improve how we support and inspire our teams.
• Strengthen leadership capability across the business, partnering closely with senior managers and leadership to coach, develop, and enable high performance.
• Guide and support the Talent function, bringing a strong understanding of modern hiring approaches and strategic workforce planning.
• Own performance and development frameworks, ensuring career growth, feedback culture, and learning opportunities remain core to life at Ravio.
• Act as a strategic partner to the executive team, bringing commercial thinking, clarity, and a people-first mindset to company-wide decisions.
• Navigate ambiguity and scale, ensuring the People team evolves ahead of the company’s needs and remains an accelerator and not a bottleneck within a scaling startup environment.

Requirements

• Proven experience leading senior People teams ideally within scaling startups or tech-enabled businesses.
• Extensive background in employee experience, with a track record of designing and executing impactful programmes across multiple geographies.
• Strong leadership capability, with experience hiring, developing, and coaching senior People leaders
• Deep understanding of talent processes, from strategic resourcing to enabling a modern, high-quality recruitment function.
• Exceptional stakeholder partnership skills, especially with managers and senior leadership, and comfortable advising on complex people issues.
• Commercially astute, with strong problem-solving skills and intellectual curiosity.
• Comfortable operating in ambiguity, adapting quickly, making sound decisions, and consistently “thinking big.”
• Experience working within scaling startup environments, ideally with exposure to rapid organisational evolution and change.

Benefits

• Salary £90,100
• £121,900+ Company ownership (everyone gets a meaningful equity stake in Ravio)
• 37 days paid time off (25 days holiday + 4 wellness days + 8 public holidays)
• Up to 6% pension matching scheme
• £60 a month wellness allowance (Invest in your physical wellbeing, on us)
• £500 per year Learning and Development budget
• Private healthcare cover (on a medical history disregarded basis) with AXA
• Personal worldwide travel insurance
• just in case
• Income protection insurance (for full peace of mind in case you cannot work because of sickness or disability)