Graduate Culture Champion

PortSwigger; Knutsford; On-site; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A forward-thinking tech company in Knutsford seeks a Culture Champion to enhance its cultural practices. In this role, you will research and design people initiatives while applying analytical thinking and data-driven insights. Collaborating closely with teams, you will help nurture a positive work environment as the company grows. Ideal candidates will possess a Masters or PhD in a related field and demonstrate strong problem-solving and collaboration skills. A competitive salary and benefits are offered.

Benefits

8% employer pension contribution

Share options after 1 year

Private medical insurance (Bupa)

Life assurance and income protection

25 days holiday plus public holidays

3 day recharge over the Christmas break

Car/Bike Scheme

Free breakfast and lunch

Qualifications

• Recent graduate or near completion of a Masters or PhD in a relevant field.
• Strong analytical skills applied to culture-related problems.
• Ability to use data-driven insights for decision making.

Responsibilities

• Research and design people and culture initiatives.
• Run surveys and focus groups to gather data.
• Collaborate on optimizing hiring and onboarding processes.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Data orientation

Accountability & delivery

Intellectual curiosity

Problem solving

Collaboration

Education

Masters or PhD in a people-related course

Job description

Who Are We:

PortSwigger is a company built around a simple belief: security should empower people, not slow them down. We create world‑class tooling that helps security teams and developers uncover and fix real vulnerabilities, the kind that actually matter. Our products are crafted with care, backed by deep research, and shaped by a relentless drive to make the web safer for everyone.

We’re a successful, engineering‑led organisation where small squads are empowered to take forward work in a suitable way, with high‑leverage work. Curiosity fuels us, craftsmanship defines us, and mutual support keeps us growing together. Here, you’ll be empowered to make decisions and collaborate effectively, have clear direction, and the freedom to push boundaries, supported by thoughtful coaching and a culture that values learning as much as delivery.

The Culture Tribe:

The Culture tribe looks after people and the ways we work, you will have clear responsibility within the end‑to‑end people experience from Talent Acquisition and Onboarding to Swigger Success Champions and broader people programmes. Our mission is to create the conditions for everyone to do their best work: coaching leaders, running development and growth programmes, and stewarding the behaviours, rituals and ways of working that make PortSwigger special. We partner with tribes across the business to embed these behaviours and help people thrive every day.

The Mission

We’re looking for a Culture Champion to research, run, and continuously improve the people and culture initiatives that shape how PortSwigger works as we grow.

You’ll be working as part of a forward‑thinking, high‑growth tech company on real culture problems – combining research‑informed thinking, data fluency, and hands‑on delivery. This is not a supportive role: you’ll have the opportunity to stay close to and eventually lead on initiatives end‑to‑end, identify what isn’t working, and improve our culture practices over time.

The Challenge

We’re looking for a Culture Champion to help a thriving scale‑up business to nurture its culture as it grows. You’ll be joining at a time when PortSwigger is growing steadily and intentionally. The challenge is to help ensure our culture scales with quality, not just speed.

In practice, this means taking an evidence‑based approach to culture decisions, improving how we gather, interpret, and act on people data, and designing interventions that are thoughtful, testable, and iterated over time – rather than one‑off initiatives.

Your Impact

In this role, the focus will be on:

• Research & design: Researching, designing, and iterating on people and culture initiatives (e.g. onboarding, feedback, development, hiring), approaching culture questions analytically and questioning underlying assumptions before proposing solutions.
• Data gathering & insight: Running surveys, focus groups, and other data‑gathering methods, analysing results to surface insights and recommendations.
• Data-informed decision‑making: Using data to inform decisions, test assumptions, and measure impact over time.
• Hiring & onboarding: Collaborating on optimising pipelines and onboarding, helping ensure fair, high‑quality experiences.
• Evidence‑based assessment: Applying an evidence‑based approach to test for aptitude, personality, and behavioural attributes that help employees to thrive in our collaborative culture.
• Swigger support: Acting as a trusted point of contact for Swiggers, signposting support and resources.
• Continuous improvement: Working closely with other Culture Champions and leaders to continuously improve how we work, using research, experimentation, and shared learning.
• AI‑augmented thinking: Use AI to support problem framing, and analysis across culture initiatives such as onboarding, feedback, development, and hiring practices.

What Will You Bring

Essential

• Academic foundation: You’ve recently finished, or are about to finish, your Masters or PhD degree in a people‑related course (for example, but not limited to Organisational Psychology / Business Psychology / People Analytics / Social Sciences / Behavioural Economics) and are looking for a role that will allow you to use your knowledge in creative and innovative ways.
• Analytical thinking: You are analytical and apply this type of thinking to people or culture‑related problems.
• Data orientation: You are a data nerd. You use data‑driven insights to inform decisions.
• Accountability & delivery: You like taking accountability of things. You have evidence of taking responsibility amongst projects, initiatives, or work driven end‑to‑end.
• Intellectual curiosity: You have curiosity, rigour, and a desire to improve systems.
• AI curiosity: AI excites you. You can approach culture‑related problems through the lens of how AI can support insight, problem framing, and improvement.
• Problem solving geek: You can break complex problems into core elements and use an analytical, data‑informed approach to test and refine solutions.
• Conscientious: You are self‑aware. You love to bring intention and care to how work is approached and delivered.
• Organisation: Your ability to manage priorities effectively, staying organised, and adapting plans as new important or urgent tasks appear stands out.
• Collaboration: You appreciate a collaborative approach to building strong working relationships, sharing work early, welcoming feedback, and delivering value through small, iterative improvements.

Desirable

• Agile working. You have knowledge of Agile principles and methodologies
• Exposure to coaching, facilitation, or development work

Why PortSwigger

Meaningful responsibility: You’ll help shape how culture works at PortSwigger — not just support it.

High‑trust culture: You’ll be trusted to do great work, supported to grow, and encouraged to think long‑term.

Culture of quality: We care deeply about doing things well, including how we design and run our people systems.

Brilliant people: You’ll work with thoughtful, curious, and principled colleagues who genuinely want to build something great together.

We are a passionate group of people from a diverse range of backgrounds who work together to produce amazing outcomes for our customers and our colleagues.

See why Swiggers love coming to work and get a good feel for what we do via our website/blog, LinkedIn company page, and X.

Our culture is our most important superpower and our biggest differentiator as an organisation. To learn more about how we work, read our Staff Handbook.

We give everyone the chance to drive their own professional and personal development, with support from Team Leaders and Tribal Elders.

Benefits

We offer competitive salaries that reward contribution, plus:

• 8% employer pension contribution
• Share options after 1 year
• Private medical insurance (Bupa)
• Life assurance and income protection
• 25 days holiday plus public holidays
• 3 day recharge over the Christmas break (trialled last year)
• Car/Bike Scheme
• Free breakfast and lunch prepared daily by our on‑site chefs