HR Lead (Head of People)

Hedepy Ltd.; Polska; Hybrid; PLN 260,000 - 420,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Free psychotherapy sessions

CEO-level exposure and leadership role

Autonomy over HR design and automation

Remote-first, async-friendly work

Job summary

Hedepy Ltd. is seeking a Head of People to own the HR function across 9 European markets. You will automate processes, design scalable policies, and lead the HR team, including a recruiter, reporting to the CEO and sitting on the leadership team.

You will manage contracts, labor law compliance, payroll coordination with external partners, and people analytics to support rapid growth while maintaining a people-first culture.

Qualifications

• 4+ years HR experience, including 2+ years owning the HR function in an international company of 50 to 200 people.
• Hands-on operational HR: contracts, onboarding/offboarding admin, and recruiting when needed.
• Independent labor law judgment in at least one CEE jurisdiction (CZ/SK/PL) including drafting contracts.
• Proven automation experience with Make or similar and ATS such as Workable; daily AI tool use for drafting and reporting.
• Track record building or rebuilding HR processes end-to-end and owning the result.
• You combine people smarts with system thinking and can have hard conversations.
• English at C1 level; fluent in Polish, Czech, Slovak, Hungarian or Romanian is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Own the full employee lifecycle for internal team: hiring strategy, onboarding, retention, offboarding, exit interviews.
• Lead and develop Recruiter Veru, including priorities and capacity planning.
• Run contracts and labor law setup across 9 countries: contracts, addendums, B2B structures, compliance with external counsel as backup.
• Own the monthly payroll cycle across CZ, SK and PL with external payroll partners.
• Redesign HR processes to scale and automate them with AI/automation tools.
• Build and track people metrics based on internal data, not off-the-shelf HR suites.
• Support leadership with people aspects of new markets and setups; handle conflicts and tough conversations.
• Be the go-to person when something is not working and actually fix it.

Skills

HR leadership

Operational HR

Labor law (CEE)

Automation & AI in HR

Make / automation tools

ATS (Workable)

People analytics

Stakeholder management

Difficult conversations

English proficiency (C1)

Tools

Make

AI tools (Claude/ChatGPT)

Payroll software

Job description

Hey there!

We are Hedepy, a scale-up and a leader in holistic mental health support for individuals and companies in Central & Eastern Europe. There are 70+ of us working remotely across 9 European countries. In 2025 we facilitated over 300,000 therapy sessions, and we are just getting started.

Lukáš (our CEO) is looking for a Head of People to take full ownership of our HR function. You report directly to him, being part of the leadership team and present to the board.

This is not a greenfield role; the function exists, and the processes work. Now we need to carry a growing contractor network across 9 countries without the HR team growing with it. Your leverage is automation, sharp prioritisation and the authority to cut scope.

One thing we are picky about. We want someone who automates the boring half so there is time left for the half that cannot be automated: the conversations, the care, support of our managers. We help people take care of their mental health for a living. It would be odd if our own HR only worked on paper.

Your mission

• Own the full employee lifecycle for our internal team: hiring strategy, onboarding, retention, offboarding, exit interviews.
• Lead and develop our Recruiter Veru, including her priorities and capacity planning.
• Run the contractual and labor law setup across 9 countries: contracts, addendums, B2B structures, and the compliance calls you make independently, with external counsel as backup rather than default.
• Own the monthly payroll cycle across CZ, SK and PL together with our external payroll partners.
• Redesign HR processes that do not scale, and automate them yourself with AI, Make or similar tools.
• Build and track the people metrics leadership actually uses, from our internal data rather than an off-the-shelf HR suite.
• Support the leadership team and the potential expansion with the people side of new markets and new setups.
• And last but not least, be the person people come to when something is not working, and then actually fix it. Hard conversations, conflicts, exits, and teammates who need help.

What we're looking for in you

Must-have:

• 4+ years of HR experience, including 2+ years owning the HR function in an international company of 50 to 200 people.
• Hands-on experience doing the operational HR craft yourself: employment and B2B contracts, addendums, onboarding and offboarding admin, and stepping into recruitment when needed.
• Independent labor law judgment in at least one CEE jurisdiction (CZ, SK or PL), including contract drafting and routine legal decisions without waiting for counsel.
• Proven experience building working automations yourself in Make (or similar) and an ATS such as Workable, plus active use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT or similar) in your daily workflow for drafting, analysis and reporting. We will ask about this concretely.
• Track record of building or rebuilding HR processesend-to-end and owning the result, not only the design.
• You are as good with people as you are with systems. You can hold a hard conversation, sit with someone on a bad day, and tell a manager something they do not want to hear. We will ask you about a process you rebuilt and how you knew it started working for people, not only on paper.
• English at C1 level, written and spoken, including leadership and board settings.
• Native or fluent level in Czech, Slovak, Polish, Hungarian or Romanian.
• Scale-up DNA. You have worked somewhere the process did not exist yet and you built it anyway. You decide with incomplete information, you are fine with priorities changing mid-quarter, and you ship the version that works now instead of waiting for the perfect one. Small budget, no team, still done. :)

Nice to have:

• Experience in a remote company running B2C and B2B models side by side.
• Payroll or contractor setup experience in HU, RO or other CEE markets beyond CZ/SK/PL.
• Experience supporting physical locations alongside a fully remote team.

Why join us?

• Free psychotherapy sessions on Hedepy.
• A real mandate: direct CEO reporting, a seat in the leadership team, board exposure.
• Full autonomy over how the HR function is designed, tooled and automated.
• Remote-first, async-friendly, flexible hours.
• International team from 10+ countries, plus team offsites and workations
• Ideal start date in the middle of November, beginning of December at the latest.