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Head of People

Hiflylabs


Job Location:

Budapest - Hungary

Monthly Salary: Not provided by the employer
Posted: 4 September 2026 (8 days ago)
Application Deadline: 2 December 2026
Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

What you will do:

People Strategy & Organizational Development:

  • Create and build Hiflys People strategy and governance model.

  • Act as a strategic partner to ensure People perspectives are represented in top-level organizational decisions (growth change management) right from the planning phase.

  • Shape company culture and lead People Analytics initiatives.

  • Support organizational development steps arising from international expansion (e.g. integrating foreign hubs or remote colleagues managing cultural diversity).

Leading the People Advisor Team & Supporting the Mentoring System:

  • Lead develop and if necessary expand the team based on the existing People Advisor team (2 people) including onboarding capacity planning unified operational frameworks and escalation protocols.

  • Provide professional support and serve as an escalation channel for complex cross-team matters.

  • Support the continuous evolution of the mentoring framework and Advisor roles.

Leadership & Talent Management:

  • Establish strategic-level leadership development talent review and succession planning programs.

  • Own the frameworks for performance management feedback systems and Pulse surveys.

  • Consult with mid-level managers on strategic roadblocks.

Career Paths Compensation & Recruitment:

  • Lead the development/refinement of the grading system career paths and annual salary review frameworks.

  • Direct the strategic operations of recruitment and Employer Branding guidelines in close collaboration with Marketing.

  • Professionally oversee labor law and compliance frameworks (e.g. GDPR EU Pay Transparency preparation).

What this role does NOT include:

  • You will not be the individual mentor: The mentor remains the primary pillar of individual professional and personal support; you build the system and the framework behind it.

  • You will not take over managerial responsibilities: Feedback performance evaluations and individual salary decisions remain with managers.

  • You will not collect processes for the sake of it: We aim for distributed empowering operations not bureaucracy.

  • You will not run payroll: Operational HR/payroll is handled by Finance; you are responsible for the strategic and professional frameworks.


Qualifications :

We are looking for you if you have:

  • Several years of HR People or Organizational Development (OD) leadership experience (Bonus: fast-growing tech/IT IT consultancy or professional services environment).

  • You are thrilled by the prospect of building a new function from scratch; you dont rely on off-the-shelf templates but create tailored solutions for Hifly through teamwork.

  • You are comfortable at both strategic and operational levels; you think in systems aiming to solve real problems rather than building processes for their own sake.

  • You excel at building trust across all levels enjoy working with leaders in an advisory/coaching role and comfortably hold up a mirror when the organization hits a bottleneck.

  • You are well-versed in key labor law and compliance frameworks.

  • Fluent confident command of English Hungarian is a must

 

An explicit advantage:

  • Coach mediator or facilitator qualifications/experience.

  • Experience in scaling or culture-centric organizational transformations.


Additional Information :

What We Offer:

  • The opportunity to build a completely new People domain and function according to your vision.

  • A seat at the strategic decision-making table and direct collaboration with top management.

  • Real authority and empowerment to shape the organization.

  • A human-centered open and autonomous company culture.

  • Hybrid work arrangement and flexibility.

 

 


Remote Work :

No


Employment Type :

Full-time


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We're Hiflylabs, a vibrant team of 200+ data and tech enthusiasts based in Budapest, Hungary and also build a Hub in Brasil. From data engineering to data science, artificial intelligence and application development, we work on a wide range of projects around the world. Over a Decade ... View more

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