Chief People & Culture Architect

Redsquid; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Redsquid is seeking a Director of People to shape a high-performing, multi-site organization. You will champion a culture where leaders empower teams, drive engagement and ensure our values influence everyday decisions.

You will own end-to-end people functions—from engagement and ER to talent acquisition and learning. You’ll lead M&A people integration, build scalable frameworks, and partner with the Executive team to align people strategy with growth.

Qualifications

• Senior generalist People leadership across multi-site businesses.
• Direct experience of M&A from the people side and post‑deal integration.
• Commercially literate with P&L awareness and risk management.
• Built scalable People functions, programs and playbooks.
• Strong grounding in UK employment law and ER judgement.
• In-house talent acquisition leadership and capability building.
• Ability to influence founders and owner-managers with empathy.

Responsibilities

• Own the engagement agenda end to end with measurable outcomes.
• Lead People operations, ER, TUPE, policy and data quality.
• Own talent acquisition and employer brand to attract top talent.
• Develop progression pathways and the group management programme.
• Drive M&A people integration, due diligence input and playbooks.
• Shape organisation design and leadership development across the group.
• Define reward architecture and recognition aligned with growth.
• Present people metrics to the Executive team and board.

Skills

People leadership

M&A experience

Commercial acumen

UK employment law

Talent acquisition

Learning & development

Organisation design

Employee relations

Job description

Redsquid is seeking a Director of People to shape a high-performing, multi-site organization. You will champion a culture where leaders empower teams, drive engagement and ensure our values influence everyday decisions.

You will own end-to-end people functions—from engagement and ER to talent acquisition and learning. You’ll lead M&A people integration, build scalable frameworks, and partner with the Executive team to align people strategy with growth.