About Walr:

Walr is a data creation company supporting insight professionals globally. It specializes in reaching diverse audience segments, leveraging proprietary technology, and offering bespoke services. With a comprehensive suite of tools backed by seasoned industry professionals, Walr’s services include efficient data collection, intuitive data visualization and reporting, and transparent advice. Walr aims to unify the complex research process with more efficient, rapid, and straightforward methods.

As a rapidly growing company and recipient of awards such as Best Workplace in Tech and Wellbeing, we offer more than a job — we invite you to shape our journey. Empowerment and growth define us. Join us in reshaping the future of business.

About The Role:

Walr seeks a visionary VP of People to lead our people strategy in a high-impact, strategic leadership role shaping our People, Talent, and Culture agenda. This role involves setting people strategy, delivering a scalable employee experience, and building a high-performance culture globally. You will collaborate with leaders to support goals, enhance processes, and safeguard our culture as we scale. We seek a commercially astute, pragmatic leader with proven experience in scaling organizations, shaping impactful people strategies, and delivering measurable outcomes.

At this pivotal point, Walr is scaling rapidly across markets, evolving our offerings, and sharpening our commercial edge. This is an exciting time to join, as you will help shape what comes next with clarity, pace, and ambition.

Key Responsibilities:

• Develop and own the global People strategy aligned with business goals and adaptable to scaling challenges.
• Create and implement a high-impact, scalable employee experience from onboarding to exit, emphasizing clarity, performance, and belonging.
• Partner with executive leadership to embed a high-performance, feedback-driven culture supporting growth and accountability.
• Enhance core people processes—performance, reward, development, engagement, employee relations—with pragmatism and speed.
• Champion talent and succession planning to ensure the right capabilities and mindset as we grow.
• Steward our culture by translating values into behaviors, systems, and leadership practices.
• Utilize data and insights to inform decisions, identify gaps, and measure initiative impacts.
• Lead and support a small People & Culture team, positioning the function as a trusted strategic partner.

Desired Experience:

• Proven senior People leadership experience in a high-growth, international scale-up.
• Ability to craft and lead people strategies that enhance performance, engagement, and culture, from early-stage to post-Series B/C.
• Strong commercial acumen with experience partnering with executive teams to align people initiatives with business outcomes.
• Experience operationalizing core people processes in a pragmatic, non-bureaucratic manner.
• Experience leading or partnering on global People initiatives across regions such as Europe, North America, and APAC.
• Comfort with both strategic thinking and hands-on involvement, confident in boardrooms and detailed work.
• Strong data literacy to leverage insights for leadership decisions.
• Values-led, low-ego leadership style with trust-building ability.
• Bonus: experience leading teams through change or transformation, such as reorgs or rapid scaling.

Desired Skills & Attributes:

• Strategic & Commercial Acumen: Ability to align people priorities with business goals, influence senior stakeholders, and drive impact through scalable practices.

• Leadership & Culture Stewardship: Credibility and care in leadership, shaping a culture of performance, inclusion, and accountability.

• Executional Excellence: Moving seamlessly between strategy and detail, delivering with pace and accuracy.

• Emotional Intelligence & Communication: Empathetic, clear, confident, and relationship-driven, capable of navigating sensitive situations with maturity.

What We Offer:

Our benefits are designed with local relevance, supporting our global team while fostering shared purpose and culture. Highlights include:

• 30 days of annual leave for rest and rejuvenation.
• Work from Anywhere — up to 8 weeks a year.
• Monthly catered lunches at our London HQ.
• Annual company parties — Summer and Winter events.
• Recognition awards for outstanding contributions.
• Choice of tech setup tailored to your preferences.
• 5% pension contribution to support your future.