HR Lead (Head of People)

# HR Lead (Head of People) > Hedepy · Czechia (Remote) · Contract · Posted 2026-09-23 **Workplace:** remote **Department:** HR ## 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. ## Apply [Apply at Hedepy](https://apply.workable.com/hedepy/j/E87279A8A0/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)