At Pixaera were a passionate team of builders who are dedicated to delivering solutions that empower people. Today were leveraging Ai and gamification to build a vertical platform that is centered around improving the safety readiness of frontline workers in any high risk industry. If you are a doer who thrives in a dynamic mission-focused environment join us!

Who are we looking for

Pixaera builds immersive gamified simulations that help frontline teams learn critical safety skills in realistic environments. As we scale our product and global customer base were investing in the foundation of our People function.

Were hiring our first People and Operations Lead a standalone high-impact role responsible for owning and building the People function from the ground up.

You will own the end-to-end employee experience across a distributed international team spanning the UK EU India and MENA from how we hire and onboard to how we develop support and retain our people.

This is a hands-on execution-first builder role. You wont inherit a fully-formed function or a large HR team you will design the foundation run the systems yourself and execute the day-to-day work that keeps the company operating smoothly.

Youll work closely with the CEO and leadership team bringing structure clarity and consistency as we scale but this role is fundamentally about getting things done not delegating them.

Key responsibilities:

• Own the full employee lifecycle: onboarding performance cycles and offboarding ensuring a smooth and consistent experience throughout

• Run clean compliant and reliable People operations across multiple geographies including contracts right-to-work and offboarding processes

• Coordinate performance reviews support managers in driving accountability and development and reinforce culture through consistent engagement rituals and leadership partnership

• Deliver a high-quality onboarding experience with clear context structured 30/60/90 plans and fully prepared systems access and equipment from day one

• Own end-to-end hiring operations: define roles run structured processes manage the ATS and deliver a high-quality candidate experience

• Build and maintain strong talent pipelines across our global distributed team while improving hiring velocity

• Own and operate all People systems (HRIS ATS etc.) maintaining accurate data managing access assets and vendors and ensuring operational discipline

• Build and maintain core people analytics and reporting (headcount attrition hiring funnel performance cycles) to support decision-making

Who are you

• You bring 25 years of experience in People / HR / Talent / People Ops roles

• Youve worked in a tech startup or high-growth company

• Youve owned both recruiting and people operations not just one area

• Youre comfortable being the sole People person and operating independently

• You have experience supporting distributed or international teams

• Youre highly organised detail-oriented and take ownership of outcomes

• Youre a strong operator who executes reliably and follows through on the details

• Youre warm empathetic and a clear communicator with high integrity

• Youre comfortable with ambiguity and thrive in fast-moving environments

Location & Working Setup

• Based in Manchester with 4 days per week in the office

• Supporting a global distributed team across multiple time zones
  

How do we support and benefit our employees

• Competitive salary and stock options everyone shares in what were building

• 25 days holiday public holidays

• Pension contribution

• Fully equipped setup from day one (no waiting for laptops)

• Regular company offsites and team socials

• A flat transparent culture with direct access to leadership

At Pixaera were committed to building a workplace where everyone feels respected supported and empowered to thrive. We believe that diverse perspectives fuel creativity and innovation which is why we celebrate individuality and foster an environment of inclusion and belonging.

Were proud to be an equal opportunity employer discrimination of any kind has no place here. No matter your background identity or lived experience youre welcome at Pixaera.