Head of HR (on-site, Limassol, Cyprus)

A-Players is an AI-powered product company running four fast-growing business units (AI chats, mental health & mindfulness, self-learning) with a distributed team of 70 people across 15 countries. 

We're looking for a Head of HR to build a scalable HR function that acts as a true partner to founders and management - a systematic foundation with the energy to actually execute. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who owns outcomes end-to-end, partners directly with the C-level, and is comfortable operating in permanent startup mode.

Responsibilities:

• Own HR strategy and the people roadmap
• Rebuild and run company-wide performance management
• Design and manage compensation & benefits, including salary architecture, benchmarking and bands
• Drive retention, succession planning and internal talent development
• Handle employee relations and difficult people decisions
• Own onboarding and offboarding processes
• Build people analytics and monitor organizational health
• Lead internal communications and culture initiatives
• Build, lead and grow the HR team
• Partner closely with founders and management as a trusted business advisor
• Coordinate with the (separate) Recruitment function on shared touchpoints: salary bands, pre-onboarding/onboarding handover, internal moves, and workforce planning.

Note: recruitment/talent acquisition and office administration are explicitly out of scope for this role - they are owned by separate functions.

Requirements:

Must have:

• Track record leading HR in a product tech company of 50-200 people, ideally through fast growth or new business unit launches
• Proven experience building HR systems from scratch (not just operating within existing infrastructure)
• Demonstrated partnering with founders/C-level where your input directly influenced business decisions
• Experience developing managers, including first-time/inexperienced ones
• Hands-on compensation & benefits expertise: salary architecture, benchmarking, bands, promotion frameworks, comp review cycles
• Real people analytics experience, with concrete examples of data-driven decisions
• Strong business and numbers literacy: unit economics, cost of people, impact of people decisions on P&L
• Strong ownership from strategy through execution, with the ability to manage stakeholders and dependencies independently
• The maturity and courage to challenge leadership with data-backed alternatives
• Strong stakeholder management and ability to influence without formal authority
• A solution-oriented mindset - focused on how to make things work despite constraints
• Practical daily use of AI in your own workflow.

Nice to have:

• Experience with distributed teams, ideally Cyprus- or EU-based
• Experience managing multiple product units at different maturity stages within one company.

What we offer:

• A seat at the table: direct, ongoing partnership with founders and the leadership team, with real influence over key business decisions
• Full ownership of the HR function - you build the system, not just execute someone else's playbook
• A fast-growing, AI-first product company (70 people, doubling year-over-year) with room to shape culture and process from the ground up
• A distributed, international team spanning 15 countries, with an on-site hub in Limassol, Cyprus
• Relocation support for candidates moving to Cyprus
• A culture that genuinely lives its values (Think AI-first, Drive to Results, Embrace R&D, Raise the Bar, Lift Others Up) - reflected in strong internal metrics: 16.6 months average tenure and 93% employee recommendation rate.