Head of HR at an IT consulting company with international Web2/Web3 clients — remote

About the company

A distributed IT consulting team that has been helping international companies build complex technology products for more than 9 years. The company's main focus is projects in rich frontend applications, high-load backend, LLM integrations, Web3, product management.

The company has a strong engineering culture: senior+ and principal specialists work here, and most projects are long-term, with deep involvement in the client's product and processes. The company values a balance between quality of work for the client, business goals and care for the team.

Headcount - 60 people, HR: 1 recruiter.

We are looking for a Head of HR for an IT consulting company: a remote team of 60 people, 9+ years on the market, international Web2/Web3 clients.

What you will do

• Help the company go through a growth stage: strengthen the HR function, make hiring and people processes more mature, transparent and scalable.
• Be a partner to the founders and the Chief of Staff on hiring, HR strategy, people processes, culture and difficult team situations.
• Run the full hiring cycle: from receiving a request to the employee's first day — both hands-on and by managing the HR team.
• Control time-to-hire and SLA compliance across funnel stages.
• Manage vacancy priorities and the hiring budget.
• Analyze the market, develop sourcing channels and systematic work with the candidate database.
• Collect and visualize HR / hiring metrics, prepare reports for C-level and data-driven recommendations.
• Support operational HR processes that are currently fragmented and bring them into a single system.
• Manage expectations and feedback between HR, team leads and tech leads.
• Take part in escalation and mediation of conflict situations.
• Support and develop the company culture in line with the manifesto.
• Directly manage the recruiter: setting tasks, development, regular 1-on-1s.
• Plan HR team resources as the company grows and shape the vision of the future HR function.
• Build hiring with clear timelines, SLA, metrics and a hiring dashboard

What matters

• 5–8 years of experience in HR / recruiting / people roles, with strong expertise in IT recruiting.
• Experience transforming the HR function during a company's growth stage, 50 → 100+ people.
• Experience building or deeply restructuring HR / recruiting processes.
• Experience hiring senior / senior+ technical specialists.
• Hands-on approach: ready not only to build strategy but also to run vacancies yourself, interview, write texts, analyze the funnel.
• Experience working with hiring metrics: time-to-hire, SLA, funnel stages, rejection reasons, timeline forecasting.
• Experience working in partnership with founders, C-level, team leads or tech leads.
• Experience managing or developing at least one HR / recruiting specialist.
• Understanding of remote / distributed teams and the ability to build lightweight processes without excessive bureaucracy.
• Maturity in difficult people cases: feedback, conflicts, partings.
• English B2+.

Nice to have

• Experience in IT consulting / outsource / outstaff companies.
• Experience in an HRBP role.
• Experience developing a referral program.
• Experience using AI tools in HR / recruiting.

Terms

• Direct influence on the company's development and partnership work with the founders.
• A culture that values people, hires for the long term and takes care of the team.
• A strong international context, interesting technology projects and a fully remote format.
• Compensation: 4000-5000 USD gross.
• Fully remote work format.
• Support for professional development: training, conference participation.
• Support for professional development: paid courses, conference participation