Human Resource Manager

**Ask & Embla**

Ask & Embla is a rapidly growing Alternative Body Jewelry company based in Singapore with a collective following of more than 450,000 across our social media channels. We ship internationally to a diverse range of customers and we are proud to be one of the leading brands worldwide in the alternative jewelry space.

At Ask & Embla, we’re passionate about creating a company that brings out the best in everyone and where individuals love to work and grow as a team. That means constantly learning and building new things, being flexible about how and where we work, and empowering each other to do the proudest work of our lives.

Started out as a school project in 2013, Ask & Embla, led by an ex-Googler and ex-Amazonian, has more than 30 employees across 4 countries, and this team is growing fast. We are building the foundation to expand several business verticals while supporting existing business functions for fulfilling thousands of orders each month.

At Ask & Embla we learn and build fast together, sharing the purpose and passion of creating not just beautiful, expressive and sustainably-made jewelry, but a community that celebrates the misfits, the believers, the round pegs in square holes and everyone in between. Everyone deserves to own who they are; we create the jewelry so they can do it with pride.

**The Role**

As the Human Resource Manager, your mission is to build a successful and inclusive A-team that supports each other and has constant opportunities for growth and development.

You’ll be setting up, and leading on all people processes and experiences, playing an integral part in building and maintaining the community and culture of our team.

You will carefully design every touch point of our employee experience that cultivates an engaging remote and on-site work culture, growing the People team while aligning on business strategies and policies with our leadership team.
- To evaluate and help define all people operations, focusing on developing great experiences at all employee and prospective employee touch points
- Cultivate our remote and on-site culture and create mechanisms to keep everyone aligned, engaged and motivated
- Build our personal development curriculum, to enable talent development company-wide
- Supplement internal programs by coordinating external training programs with various organisations
- Evaluate and define a competitive compensation & benefits framework
- Lead (and grow) the People & Talent Team
- You will also support the full spectrum of human resources operations duties such as staff engagement, grievance handling and key policies implementations with the management team
- Oversee the general office administration duties
- Recommend and implement continuous improvements to the processes and procedures of the various HR functions
- Develop our employer brand and improve our various recruitment touchpoints such as LinkedIn, Glassdoor, and others
- Maintaining HR documents and forms like employment contracts, employee handbooks, and HR policies and procedures.
- Improving annual leave, claims, and travel expense policies
- Organizing team recreation activities
- Working with management to set up benefits programs and policies

**Job Requirements**

Our Human Resource Manager is:

- **Passionate** about building a people-first workplace culture rooted in inclusion with learning and development at the forefront.
- **Inspiring - **You naturally bring energy to people in the room and have no problem leading the pack when it comes to building an epic working culture. You’re a natural leader that people look up to and you easily connect with people from all walks of life.
- **Resilient - **We move fast and things can change quickly - you’re not afraid to terminate or change the course of projects you’ve spent weeks or months on
- **People-focused -** You put people at the heart of everything you and your team does.
- **Experienced -** You have been the end-responsible person **or the builder** of all People related touch points in a high-growth startup environment for 3-5 years. This wouldn’t be your first Management role nor your first People & Culture position. You’re used to working in a high-growth environment, bonus for a tech company or e-commerce fashion company background
- **Analytical - **You’re focused on insights and problems before solutions and you love data to analyse and improve people practices and strategies.
- **Tech Savvy - **You’re not afraid of learning new systems and software. You’re always looking for ways to streamline and automate processes
- **Organized - **We’re building many processes simultaneously and several tasks are in competition for priority. This does not faze you and you’re comfortable selecting the right task to complete.

On the flip side, our Human Resource Manager **is not**:

- **Not afraid to take action -** While you're defining and implementing your people strategy, you’re not afraid t