Head of People & Global HR Operations

Dfns; Paris; Hybride; EUR 135 000 - 225 000; Plein temps

Avantages offerts par ce poste

Healthcare

Stock options

Flexible vacation

Parental leave

Home technology allowance

Travel expenses covered

MacBook and equipment

Résumé du poste

DFNS is seeking a Head of People to build and own the function as the company scales across Europe, the US, and beyond. You will design and implement end-to-end people processes—from hiring and onboarding to payroll, benefits, and retention—while ensuring equity and fair compensation across jurisdictions.

This is a remote-first leadership role with offices available and a focus on compliance and audit readiness.

Qualifications

• Experience building a People function at a company that grew from tens to hundreds of people across several countries.
• Hands-on command of the full cycle (hiring, onboarding, payroll and benefits administration, performance, offboarding).
• Working knowledge of French and US employment law plus the judgment to know when to call counsel.
• Experience designing compensation and leveling frameworks, including equity.
• Discretion and judgment in employee relations, including the hard conversations.
• Fluent English.

Responsabilités

• Build the hiring engine, from process and tooling to hiring manager discipline, so we fill the roles ahead with people who raise the bar.
• Design onboarding that gets a new joiner productive in their first weeks, wherever they sit.
• Put in place leveling and compensation across every country we employ in, equity included, that is fair, explainable and ready for investor and audit scrutiny.
• Run People operations end to end (contracts, payroll and benefits across entities, employee records, offboarding) with Finance and Legal teams.
• Set up performance and development, from goals and reviews to career paths, so people know where they stand and where they can go.
• Own engagement and retention, measure them and act on what you find, including the retreats and offsites that hold a distributed team together.
• Keep us compliant with employment law in every country we hire in and keep People controls audit ready for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 (screening, access on and offboarding, security training).
• Be the person people come to when something is wrong and resolve it with judgment and discretion.

Description du poste

DFNS is seeking a Head of People to build and own the function as the company scales across Europe, the US, and beyond. You will design and implement end-to-end people processes—from hiring and onboarding to payroll, benefits, and retention—while ensuring equity and fair compensation across jurisdictions.

This is a remote-first leadership role with offices available and a focus on compliance and audit readiness.