What You'll Get

At Perlego we believe in the key role you will play to achieve our shared mission. You'll belong to a culture of dreamers, team players and avid learners with a flexible, value-based approach. Here, you can become your best self, and through your talent, make a real impact in the world of education.

What We Do

At Perlego, there are almost 100 of us working hard to make education accessible to all. We believe access to good quality affordable learning unlocks potential. Knowledge should be more accessible, not locked behind sky-high price tags.

We recently expanded our library to make over 1 million books affordable for learners, earned a 100% Gold ASPIRE rating for accessibility and reached over 15 million people. The next stage of Perlego is two-fold: 1) expand our support to students and publishers globally, and 2) build a product that goes beyond the book, a platform that helps students study smarter and educators teach more effectively.

What We're Looking For

A Talent Partner to join our People & Talent team with experience of delivering a fantastic candidate experience and hiring top talent in a fast-moving environment. You'll be hiring across all of our functions and domains, including Engineering, Product and Commercial so will have to be highly adaptable, personable and driven. We're looking for someone to advocate for our unique culture, driving engagement internally and hiring the best people to add to our culture and contribute to our mission.

🤝 How We Work Together

Perlego is organised into cross-functional tribes working together on a common domain. Our People and Finance teams come together to form our Enabler Tribe, with the empowerment to deliver strategic projects that drive business and employee impact. As well as your work in hiring top talent for Perlego, you'll collaborate on varied projects with the rest of the Enabler Tribe and will learn the fundamentals of Agile working.

What You'll Do

Reporting to Ben, our People & Talent Partner, you will own the delivery of our hiring process for roles across multiple functions and hire top-class talent to help Perlego achieve our mission of making learning accessible to all
Deliver a phenomenal candidate experience to our applicants, showcasing the best of our culture and values throughout our process
Run multiple complex hiring processes with competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
Utilise a range of hiring tools to build strong and diverse pipeline for every role, including outbound sourcing as well as managing our inbound pipeline
Partner with our hiring managers to scope out their team needs, helping them create a compelling job description and crafting a bespoke hiring process for to help us find the best candidate for the job
Craft engaging and emotionally resonant employer branded content for our careers page, job platforms and social media channels to showcase our culture and ways of working
Drive our culture and foster togetherness by organising socials and in-person activities in our beautiful office
Support our onboarding experience and set our new hires up for success at Perlego, including drafting contracts and working with hiring managers on 1-3 month plans for new joiners

Requirements

This role is for you if:

You want to work in a fast-paced, growing environment and have a direct stake in how we scale as an organisation
You're comfortable with change and embrace ambiguity. No two days are the same
You like a challenge: As well as your workload, Perlego is a place where we challenge each other directly, with care. If you don't like challenge, this may not be the right place for you
You want to strengthen your Talent Acquisition skills and pick up new skills in other diverse areas - every day is a school day

What success looks like for this role:

In 1 months you will understand our ways of working and be actively working on a hiring pipeline
In 3 months you will be owning your own recruitment pipeline and be taking on projects that enhance our employee and candidate experience
In 6 months you will have established a strong relationship with a number of hiring managers and will be helping them shape the future hiring plans of their team

🔥 It's the perfect role for you if you have:

Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills: you'll need to build strong relationships with stakeholders from across all of our teams and levels. You'll also support candidates through our recruitment process with empathy, good humour and warmth - regardless of the outcome, we want everyone to come away with a positive experience
Previous experience in a Talent Partner role: You'll have owned your own hiring pipelines and partnered closely with managers to find and hire top talent for your previous company
High levels of organisation skills: You won't just own your own diary, but also that of your candidates and your hiring managers. Juggling competing priorities can be challenging so you'll have to be able to ruthlessly prioritise and focus on the highest impact work
An adaptable and flexible mindset: Perlego is a growing business and moves at a fast-pace, meaning priorities can change. This is a company where no two days are the same, so being adaptable is essential
Drive and self-motivation: You should have a high level of drive to deliver the best outcome and should always be striving towards the goal of hiring the best person for the job
A solutions-thinking mindset: If you run into a problem, we want you to think creatively about how to solve it
The ability to understand a brief: Excellent at gathering context and listening to requirements, and innately curious about Perlego as a business
Passion for culture: You will be the guardian and architect of our unique culture, so you have to be passionate about building the best possible place to work
An experimental mindset: You should be able to spot ways to improve things and be willing to "test and learn" from new methods when it comes to hiring

⭐️ It's a plus if you have:

Previously hired Software Engineers and other highly technical roles
Experience hiring outside the UK as well as within
Experience creating and publicising employer branded content that drives engagement with candidates
Experience working in a growing startup

Benefits

🌈 Benefits include:

✨Compensation

The minimum salary for this role is £30,000 - £40,000 + share options

Why should you work at Perlego?

Apart from our mission, we foster a unique company culture championing self-empowerment, personal development, direct communication and mutual support.

Want to learn more about how we're making learning accessible? Check out our latest impact report

🏠 Flexible

We operate a flexible hybrid working environment. For this role we'd like to see you in our London office a minimum of twice a week. The People & Talent tend to attend the office together on Mondays and Wednesdays to collaborate. If you're looking for a 100% remote role, this one is not for you.

🧠 L&D Budget

We value continuous learning and you will have a personal L&D budget for online courses, subscriptions or books not on Perlego - you will of course get a free Perlego account.

🌱 Unlimited Coaching Opportunities

Unlimited access to MoreHappi, an on-demand professional coaching platform to offer all employees access to unbiased and professional coaching opportunities.

🤓 Learning Time

All employees have dedicated Learning Time to focus on new skills, projects or interests that lay outside of their day-to-day job, including Hackathons which bring our entire Engineering team together to work on exciting projects.

🌴 Work-Life Balance

Everyone needs a break, so enjoy 30 days off (incl. bank holidays) + 1 additional day annual leave for every year of service up to 35 days off (incl. bank holidays)

🛐 Flexi Bank Holidays

We understand that not everyone aligns with the same calendar; we offer the flexibility to take your local country's bank holiday allowance for other religious or cultural days.

e.g. switch UK Easter Bank Holidays Days for Eid celebrations

🗺 Work from overseas

We are also flexible if you wish to work remotely overseas for short periods of time, as long as you remain a UK tax resident

❄️ Office Reset

All employees can also enjoy the days between Boxing Day and New Year off, to reset and refresh for the new year - this is additional to your annual leave 🙂

🏖 Sabbatical

After three years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month unpaid sabbatical, and after five years there is an opportunity to take a 1-month paid sabbatical

💛 Personal Days

Life happens and we want you to be able to use your annual leave for resting, relaxing or taking time out to do something you love!

We offer 1 additional day a year for life events (your wedding, relocation, moving house, or a child starting school).

🍏 Health & Wellbeing

We want everyone to feel healthy and happy, so we offer private medical insurance via Vitality.

💭 Mental Health

All employees get access to therapy and counselling through Vitality

🚲 Cycle to Work Scheme

We're committed to building a sustainable business, so we encourage cycling to work. Perlego will buy your bike of choice, which you'll pay back over 12 months.

🎉 Social

We're a tight-knit bunch who enjoy our time to play. We have regular social events and activities for everyone - everything from white water rafting to board game nights.

🍼 Family time

We believe family is really important; we offer new parents a competitive matched parental leave as well as a phased return to work from extended leave.

👼 Workplace Nursery Benefit

We want to support working parents and carers, so we offer a workplace nursery benefit scheme, helping our employees potentially save thousands of £££ against the cost of nurseries each year.

👋 Belonging at Perlego

🌈 We are an equal opportunity employer and value diversity of thought and background.

❤️ We are actively building a diverse team, so we strongly encourage applications from people of colour, the LGBTQ+ community, people with disabilities, neurodivergent people, parents, carers, and people from lower socio-economic backgrounds.

📣 To enable an equitable experience for all and give you the best chance of success, if you have any specific requirements for any stage of the interview process, please let us know by emailing ben@perlego.com

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