Head of People

Utopia Living; Georgia; Remote; USD 140,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Travel opportunities

Job summary

Utopia Living invites a dynamic Head of People to elevate our international HR and recruitment function. Lead the design and delivery of scalable people processes, improve retention, and raise the standard of talent across diverse teams worldwide.

Rhythms must be data-driven with clear KPIs, and you will champion a lean, hands-on approach to building effective HR practices from scratch in a growth-focused hospitality business.

Qualifications

• Senior HR leadership experience with strong recruitment and organisational development expertise.
• Proven results improving quality of hire, retention, probation outcomes, and performance.
• Hands-on experience auditing end-to-end HR processes, recruitment funnels, and process deviations.
• Strong capability in HR / Recruitment analytics, KPIs, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.

Responsibilities

• Develop and execute People strategy aligned with business needs.
• Lead a lean HR and Recruitment team and improve its effectiveness.
• Strengthen sourcing, candidate assessments, hiring standards, and quality of hire.
• Analyse recruitment funnels and the entire HR lifecycle; track deviations, investigate root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Build onboarding, performance management, feedback, retention, and development processes.
• Build a sustainable culture of engagement, accountability, and high performance.
• Establish and continuously improve People dashboards, KPIs, and management reporting.
• Adapt people practices to corporate functions, site teams, and potentially hospitality operations.
• Partner with leadership on organisational effectiveness, headcount planning, and employee performance.
• Oversee international People operations and partner with Legal and Finance on compliance.
• Personally drive implementation and adoption of improvements.
• Opportunity to build and shape the People function of an international luxury hospitality business.
• Direct involvement in strategic organisational decisions and meaningful transformation.
• High autonomy, ownership, and visibility with senior leadership.
• International exposure, remote work, and occasional travel.
• Entrepreneurial environment with a lean, collaborative, multidisciplinary team.

Skills

Senior HR leadership

Recruitment excellence

HR analytics

Performance management

Organisational design

Stakeholder management

Fluent English

Job description

We are looking for a Head of People to lead and transform our international HR and Recruitment function. You will improve talent quality, performance, and retention; strengthen organisational culture; and implement scalable people processes across a diverse international business.

You will systematically assess HR processes and recruitment funnels, identify gaps and root causes, and deliver data-driven improvements. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can build processes from the ground up, lead change in a low-process-maturity environment, and deliver measurable results with a lean team.

• Senior HR leadership experience with strong recruitment and organisational development expertise.
• Proven results improving quality of hire, retention, probation outcomes, and performance.
• Hands-on experience auditing end-to-end HR processes, recruitment funnels, and process deviations.
• Strong capability in HR / Recruitment analytics, KPIs, root-cause analysis, and continuous improvement.
• Experience in performance management, engagement, culture, organisational design, and workforce planning.
• Ability to build practical processes and lead their adoption across different business functions.
• Experience with distributed international teams and awareness of contractor / employment arrangements.
• Strong leadership, stakeholder management, problem-solving, ownership, and fluent English.
• Plus to have:
• Russian fluency
• In-house recruitment or HR experience within the construction, real estate, architecture, design, or hospitality industries. Experience hiring for or working directly within these sectors is preferred.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and execute People strategy aligned with business needs.
• Lead a lean HR and Recruitment team and improve its effectiveness.
• Strengthen sourcing, candidate assessments, hiring standards, and quality of hire.
• Analyse recruitment funnels and the entire HR lifecycle; track deviations, investigate root causes, and implement corrective actions.
• Build onboarding, performance management, feedback, retention, and development processes.
• Build a sustainable culture of engagement, accountability, and high performance.
• Establish and continuously improve People dashboards, KPIs, and management reporting.
• Adapt people practices to corporate functions, site teams, and potentially hospitality operations.
• Partner with leadership on organisational effectiveness, headcount planning, and employee performance.
• Oversee international People operations and partner with Legal and Finance on compliance.
• Personally drive implementation and adoption of improvements.

• Opportunity to build and shape the People function of an international luxury hospitality business.
• Direct involvement in strategic organisational decisions and meaningful transformation.
• High autonomy, ownership, and visibility with senior leadership.
• International exposure, remote work, and occasional travel.
• Entrepreneurial environment with a lean, collaborative, multidisciplinary team.