People Director, Series B SaaS Scale-up

People Director

Location: London, hybrid

Package: £120,000 - £140,000

About the Opportunity

We’re partnering with a fast-scaling, venture-backed SaaS platform delivering data and analytics solutions to enterprise clients worldwide. With a global footprint across Europe, North America, and APAC, the business has grown rapidly following its Series B, now approaching 100 people and entering a new phase of operational maturity.

Having built strong foundations in its People systems, processes, and culture, the company is now seeking a strategic and grounded People Director to guide its next chapter.

You’ll work closely with the CEO, shaping the long-term People strategy while remaining comfortable operating hands-on when needed to drive delivery, momentum, and trust.

The Role You’ll Own

• Lead and evolve the People function as the business transitions from high growth to sustainable scale.
• Partner with the CEO and executive team to align people strategy with commercial performance and cost discipline.
• Coach and develop an ambitious senior leadership group, strengthening leadership maturity and collaboration.
• Reinforce company culture and connection across distributed, hybrid teams.
• Optimise performance management, organisational design, and people analytics to support data-driven decision-making.
• Rebuild confidence in the People function post transition, ensuring continuity and credibility across the organisation.
• Lead workforce planning and reward strategy in partnership with Finance.

Your Profile

• Experience within Series A to C SaaS or tech scale-ups, typically between 50 and 300 employees.
• Broad HR generalist background spanning culture, talent and leadership development.
• Financially astute and data literate, comfortable translating people insights into commercial recommendations.
• Empathetic, low ego and pragmatic operator able to build trust quickly across senior teams.
• Skilled in managing change, conflict and transformation with calm authority.
• Confident working both strategically and hands-on, adapting your approach to meet the needs of a dynamic scale-up.

Why Join?

• Strategic impact. Partner directly with the CEO to influence organisational design, leadership capability and long-term people strategy.
• Reset and rebuild. Shape a mature, transparent culture in a business performing well but navigating an important internal evolution.
• Global platform, human scale. International reach across multiple continents, yet still small enough that every decision counts.
• Sustainable growth. A Series B SaaS organisation scaling with intent, disciplined, data-informed and values-led.
• Modern leadership culture. A pragmatic, high-performance environment that values autonomy, humility and purpose over ego.

We recognise how competitive the current market is for senior People leaders, and Hawkwood is committed to ensuring a confidential, fair and positive candidate experience throughout.

If you’re interested in exploring this opportunity, please apply via this LinkedIn advert rather than by email or direct message. This ensures every application is reviewed fairly and consistently.