HR Manager
CompanySalience Labs
Location
Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Employment TypeFull-time
Posted At4/21/2026
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Occupation TypeHuman resource managers and directors
Occupation Code Skill LevelHigher Skilled
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£52,900
(£27.13 per hour)
Occupation rate applies
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Description
⌕ Job Overview
Salience Labs is building next-generation photonic technology to transform connectivity for AI, HPC, and data centre systems. With teams across the UK, Germany, and the US, we are now at a stage where operational rigour in our People function is critical to scaling effectively.
This role sits at the core of our People team, reporting into the Head of People and Talent. You will take ownership of the day-to-day running of People Operations, ensuring the business is compliant, structured, and building a consistent, high-performing culture across multiple geographies.
The core People infrastructure is in place, but there is still plenty to improve. This role will take full ownership of BAU People Operations, ensuring we are audit-ready and running cleanly, while steadily raising the bar on how our processes, systems, and standards operate as we scale.
✎ What You'll Be Doing
People Operations & Compliance
Salience Labs is building next-generation photonic technology to transform connectivity for AI, HPC, and data centre systems. With teams across the UK, Germany, and the US, we are now at a stage where operational rigour in our People function is critical to scaling effectively.
This role sits at the core of our People team, reporting into the Head of People and Talent. You will take ownership of the day-to-day running of People Operations, ensuring the business is compliant, structured, and building a consistent, high-performing culture across multiple geographies.
The core People infrastructure is in place, but there is still plenty to improve. This role will take full ownership of BAU People Operations, ensuring we are audit-ready and running cleanly, while steadily raising the bar on how our processes, systems, and standards operate as we scale.
✎ What You'll Be Doing
People Operations & Compliance
- Own the employee lifecycle end to end, onboarding, changes, and off-boarding.
- Maintain accurate, audit-ready employee records across all geographies.
- Ensure compliance with employment law across the UK and US, with exposure to Germany beneficial.
- Manage contracts, policies, and documentation.
- Own and optimise HRIS and People tooling, including Humaans and ATS workflows.
- Ensure data integrity, reporting accuracy, and process consistency.
- Build and refine scalable processes that reduce manual overhead.
- Act as a first point of contact for employee queries and day-to-day people matters.
- Support managers with operational HR topics and guidance.
- Run and continuously improve onboarding and core employee experience processes.
- Support the development and embedding of a consistent company culture across geographies.
- Support coordination and execution of hiring processes when needed.
- Ensure a consistent and high-quality candidate experience.
- Provide reliable data and reporting to support decision making.
- Ensure the People function operates in a structured and predictable way.
- 4-7 years in HR or People Operations roles, ideally in scaling environments.
- Strong knowledge of UK and US employment law.
- Experience working with HRIS platforms and maintaining high data integrity.
- Highly organised and detail-oriented, with strong process discipline.
- Comfortable owning BAU operations independently.
- Able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong interpersonal skills, with sound judgement when supporting employees and managers.
- Exposure to multi-country teams and distributed working environments.
- Familiarity with German employment practices.
- Experience in startups or high-growth companies.
- Experience improving or implementing HR systems.
- Exposure to performance management processes.
Salience Labs Limited is a leader in photonic solutions targeting connectivity for AI datacenter infrastructure.
Backed by over a decade of research from the University of Oxford in the UK and the University of Münster in Germany, Salience’s innovative developments in photonic switching technology enable high-speed, ultra-low latency networking fabrics that remove infrastructure bottlenecks for AI workloads.