# HR Lead (Head of People)

**Company:** [Hedepy](null/companies/s49HHNx2sW4yNBuRRqn4dN.md)
**Location:** Remote
**Workplace:** remote
**Employment type:** Contract
**Department:** HR

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## Description

Hey there! 👋

We are [Hedepy](https://hedepy.com), 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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/lukaskrcil/) (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](https://www.linkedin.com/in/veronica-hrozova/)), 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.

## Requirements

**💡 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 processes** end-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.

## Benefits

**🤝 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-friendl**y, **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.