Head of People and Culture

W4 Games; San Francisco (CA); Remote; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

W4 Games is seeking its first dedicated People and Culture lead to formalize our HR function for an all-remote organization. You will design and implement policies, compensation structures, and privacy practices as we scale across the Americas and Europe.

Reporting to the COO in Los Angeles, you will wear many hats, build processes from the ground up, and help shape culture while ensuring compliance with employment laws across jurisdictions.

Responsibilities

• Assessing where our people policies stand today, closing the gaps, and overseeing implementation with legal counsel where needed.
• Working with legal counsel to review how people work with us across the countries we operate in, and keep those arrangements compliant.
• Running a company-wide compensation study against market benchmarks, and completing the leveling framework we'll adjust against.
• Building our compensation and benefits framework alongside legal counsel.
• Supporting hiring across the company: recruiting, interview process, reference and background checks, and onboarding.
• Owning performance management so team members get timely, honest, actionable feedback.
• Handling workplace concerns, complaints, and any labor-related matters.
• Protecting and developing our culture as we grow, including formalising it into a culture handbook.
• Maintaining team member's records in line with applicable privacy law and our own policy.

Job description

Description

We're hiring our first dedicated People and Culture lead. We've been building our people function for a few years now, always alongside other responsibilities. As we are currently in a new growth phase, we would like to build a formal, dedicated human resources function, appropriate for our all-remote structure, that can help us continue our expansion. This role will be responsible for creating and implementing this function.

You'll report to the COO, who is based in Los Angeles. We're around 30 people across the Americas and Europe, so expect a generalist role, a highly dynamic environment, and to wear several hats. It starts as a team of one, and as our needs grow you'll build and lead your own.

What You'll Be Doing

• Assessing where our people policies stand today, closing the gaps, and overseeing implementation with legal counsel where needed.
• Working with legal counsel to review how people work with us across the countries we operate in, and keep those arrangements compliant.
• Running a company-wide compensation study against market benchmarks, and completing the leveling framework we'll adjust against.
• Building our compensation and benefits framework alongside legal counsel.
• Supporting hiring across the company: recruiting, interview process, reference and background checks, and onboarding.
• Owning performance management so team members get timely, honest, actionable feedback.
• Handling workplace concerns, complaints, and any labor-related matters.
• Protecting and developing our culture as we grow, including formalising it into a culture handbook.
• Maintaining team member's records in line with applicable privacy law and our own policy.