Senior People Partner, London

Senior People Partner, London

We are here to advance human health, by re-imagining drug discovery with the power and pace of artificial intelligence.

The future is coming. A future enabled and enriched by the incredible power of machine learning. A future in which diseases are curtailed or cured by better and faster drug discovery. 

Our values exist in service of that future. We think they’ll help us bring it closer, too.

Come and be part of an interdisciplinary team driving groundbreaking innovation and play a meaningful role in contributing towards us achieving our ambitious goals, while being a part of an inspiring and collaborative culture.

The world we want tomorrow is the one we’re building today. It starts with the culture at this company. It starts with you. 

About Iso

Isomorphic Labs (IsoLabs) was founded in 2021 and is led by Sir Demis Hassabis. Our aim is to usher in a new era of biomedical breakthroughs and find cures for some of humanity’s devastating diseases.

Our foundations are built on the success of Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold, but we didn’t stop there! We are continuing to develop and implement state-of-the-art technologies as we move towards our goal of dramatically accelerating and improving the process of designing and bringing new medicines to patients.

We have built a world-leading drug design engine comprising foundational AI models that are capable of working across multiple therapeutic areas and drug modalities. The company is continually innovating on model architecture and developing cutting-edge capabilities to advance rational drug design.

Your impact

This is a high impact role where you will place employee experience at the centre of the organisation to create competitive advantage through the quality of our employees and organisational culture.

You will be part of a highly collaborative and dynamic People & Talent team learning and growing together to create the exceptional environment in which groundbreaking and transformative work happens.

You will work closely with managers and leaders, using your knowledge and influencing skills to shape how we build and develop the business from a people perspective, actively managing culture and values. You’ll build trusted relationships, working cross functionally with all team members to enable high engagement and to optimise the contribution of our people.

What you will do

• Build trusted relationships and collaborate across the company to develop the organisation’s culture and environment, ensuring a passionate focus on achieving business goals.
• Collaborate with others to create the employee experience to ensure the organisation can attract, develop, retain and reward exceptional talent, enabling high employee engagement and performance.
• Coach and advise executive leadership and managers on all people-related matters, including how to manage, motivate, engage and develop their teams.
• Advise on all employment matters including handling related legal and compliance risks.
• Assimilate complex information to provide clear, straightforward and actionable insights which create understanding and alignment, and drive business performance.
• Create and develop innovative, high impact initiatives, solutions and ways of working.
• Operate autonomously and in a highly organised way which drives pace and proactivity.
• Capture and use data to evaluate the success of people programs against their aims, goals and objectives, and share learnings and insight across the wider business.
• Work with third parties, consultants or members of parent organisation to provide operational People/HR items such as payroll, benefits, etc.

Skills and qualifications

Essential:

• CIPD qualification or equivalent.
• Extensive coaching and advisory experience in a role where you have been supporting executive leadership, able to influence and challenge in a constantly changing environment, acting as a sounding board and delivery partner.
• Demonstrable generalist experience operating in a Senior People Partner role, ideally in a startup or scaleup environment.
• Strong collaborator, team oriented with experience of helping others to learn and grow.
• Understanding of employment law and practice, knowledge of People/HR best practices and trends with the ability to identify creative or practical solutions to achieve best fit.
• Strong change management, organisational design and consulting capabilities. Experience proposing, developing and delivering innovative new initiatives which drive business progress.
• Confident communicator, able to build trusted, meaningful relationships and use this to influence actions and outcomes.
• Strong commercial and business acumen.
• Proactive about acquiring knowledge to enhance the impact you have, demonstrate a curious attitude, and a commitment to learning and understanding more about work across the whole organisation.

Nice to have:

• Sector experience in AI, tech, life sciences or pharma is an advantage.
• Experience operating in a complex global organisation.
• Depth of knowledge and experience in utilising coaching techniques to support individuals from diverse backgrounds in a dynamic environment.

Culture and values

We are guided by our shared values. It's not about finding people who think and act in the same way. These values help to guide our work and will continue to strengthen it. 

Thoughtful
Thoughtful at Iso is about curiosity, creativity and care. It is about good people doing good, rigorous and future-making science every single day.

Brave
Brave at Iso is about fearlessness, but it’s also about initiative and integrity. The scale of the challenge demands nothing less.

Determined
Determined at Iso is the way we pursue our goal. It’s a confidence in our hypothesis, as well as the urgency and agility needed to deliver on it. Because disease won’t wait, so neither should we.

Together
Together at Iso is about connection, collaboration across fields and catalytic relationships. It’s knowing that transformation is a group project, and remembering that what we’re doing will have a real impact on real people everywhere.

Creating an extraordinary company

We believe that to be successful we need a team with a range of skills and talents. We're building an environment where collaboration is fundamental, learning is shared and every employee feels supported and able to thrive. We value unique experiences, knowledge, backgrounds, and perspectives, and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact.

We are committed to equal employment opportunities regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Hybrid working

It’s hugely important for us to share knowledge and build strong relationships with each other, and we find it easier to do this if we spend time together in person. This is why we follow a hybrid model, and would require you to be able to come into the office 3 days a week (currently Tuesday, Wednesday, and one other day depending on which team you’re in). If you have additional needs that would prevent you from following this hybrid approach, we’d be happy to talk through these if you’re selected for an initial screening call.

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