People Operations Lead

Methodfi; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

A pioneering energy transition firm in the United Kingdom is seeking a People Ops Lead to strategically scale their operations for rapid growth. In this remote-first role, you will oversee the entire employee lifecycle, from onboarding to compliance, ensuring efficient and compliant HR processes. The ideal candidate has deep experience with remote HR operations and a strong grasp of automation tools. This position offers a dynamic work environment and flexibility in a forward-thinking company.

Benefits

Salary aligned with internal benchmarks

Stock options for employees

25 days holiday plus public holidays

Flexible working hours

Home working and wellbeing budgets

Qualifications

• Direct experience in scaling People Ops in a remote-first company across multiple countries.
• Proven ownership of complete employee lifecycle management including onboarding and offboarding.
• Strong proficiency with automation tools and HR systems.

Responsibilities

• Own the end-to-end employee lifecycle processes.
• Design scalable and fast workflows.
• Automate repetitive processes to enhance efficiency.
• Ensure legal compliance across different countries.
• Collaborate with various departments to support organizational growth.

Skills

Scaling People Ops in remote-first environments

Onboarding and offboarding

HR systems proficiency

Process design

Change management

Tools

Make

Zapier

n8n

Rippling

Job description

📈 Who We Are:

We're rebuilding the energy transaction system, making it transparent and fair.

tem exists to put power back in the hands of people. Today’s wholesale energy market is stacked in favour of the few. It's a product of an age of oil and gas, riddled with markups and middlemen. We’re changing that.

Our product, RED™, built on a proprietary pricing engine that bypasses the wholesale market, enables businesses to buy the energy produced by renewable generators directly. That's 100% transparent transactions, ensuring affordable bills and fair compensation, to give every business ownership and control over where their energy comes from.

Since launching in 2021, we’ve saved UK businesses and generators over £20 million, powering a growing network of forward-thinking companies, from Pizza Pilgrims to Silverstone. Backed by top-tier VCs such as Atomico and Albion, we’re creating a new category in energy - one that’s local, decentralised, and built on trust.

🏅 The Role

We’re hiring a People Ops Lead to be the strategic mastermind behind how we scale People Operations for 100× growth across multiple countries as a remote‑first company. You will own the end‑to‑end employee lifecycle and the underlying systems, designing durable fixes and pragmatic interim automations to remove friction quickly. You’ll land global foundations that work across many countries at different maturity levels, and partner cross‑functionally to keep the organisation unblocked.

In your first 12 months you will:

• Diagnose current People Ops constraints and ship fixes that improve speed, quality and compliance across the lifecycle.

• Stand up interim workflows and automations in Make and our HRIS while designing durable solutions.

• Land global People Ops foundations that work across many countries at different maturity levels.

🚀 Responsibilities

• Own the employee lifecycle end‑to‑end: onboarding, offboarding, job changes, time and attendance, performance and ER, payroll inputs, equity admin, and compliance.

• Design for scale and ship fast: convert unscalable manual work into robust processes, using smart interim patches where appropriate.

• Automate the repetitive: build and maintain automations and integrations across Make or n8n, Rippling (HRIS), and Vestd (equity platform).

• Compliance by design: ensure country‑by‑country compliance for contracts, data privacy, right‑to‑work, benefits, and statutory reporting.

• Measure what matters: define People Ops strategy and Now and Next deliverables that move the needle.

• Partner across the business: work with Finance, IT, People & Talent, and People Leaders to land changes and keep the org unblocked.

🎯 Success measures

• Faster, more reliable lifecycle operations evidenced by improved speed, quality and compliance.

• Working interim automations that reduce repetitive manual work while durable systems are built.

• Global People Ops foundations live and adopted across multiple countries.

• Clear Now and Next deliverables tracked and delivered.

🎯 Requirements

Must haves

• Direct experience scaling People Ops in a remote‑first company operating across multiple countries.

• Proven ownership of onboarding to offboarding, compensation and benefits, equity administration, legal and compliance, policy, and ER practices.

• Proficiency with low‑code automation platforms and HR systems (e.g. Make, Zapier, n8n, Rippling) and ability to design integrations and QA data flows.

• Strong process design, documentation hygiene, change management, and bias to move from discovery to shipped improvements quickly.

• Sound judgement and pragmatism to choose interim patches versus durable fixes and communicate trade‑offs.

Bonus points

• Experience implementing equity administration processes and tooling (e.g. Vestd).

• Experience standing up multi‑country HR operations and compliance.

✨ Benefits and Perks

• Salary aligned to internal benchmarks and reviewed twice a year.

• Stock options so everyone has ownership in our mission.

• 25 days holiday plus public holidays. Swap public holidays for the ones that matter most to you, and enjoy your birthday off.

• Remote first and flexible working, with clear core hours and no internal meetings on Friday afternoons.

• Home working and wellbeing budgets:

  • Up to £1,200 or €1,200 per year for your remote setup.

  • Up to £150 or €150 per month for wellbeing.

🗣️ Interview Process

We move fast. Most processes take 2 to 3 weeks from first chat to offer. If you need us to adapt anything, let us know.

1. Intro call with Talent, 30 minutes.

2. Hiring Manager interview, 60 minutes.

3. Skills interview with cross‑functional partners, 60 to 90 minutes, including a practical exercise.

4. Culture Add interview with leadership stakeholders, 45 minutes.

We welcome applications from people of all backgrounds, experiences, and identities, including those that are traditionally underrepresented in the tech and energy sectors. If you’re excited about this role but not sure you meet every requirement, we’d still love to hear from you. Your unique perspective could be exactly what we’re looking for.