Want to build a tastier future through cutting-edge technologies? We are looking for a mission-driven, creative, and committed Head of People to join us 🦆. Come and bring your skills to the table!
GOURMEY is one of Europe's leading cultivated meat companies with global ambitions. Our vision is to create sustainable cultivated meat delights directly from animal cells for a conscious generation.
We believe in a world where succulence can share a table with positive impact and that cutting-edge technology combined with culinary arts can help us get there From engineers or scientists to culinary experts, we’re building an international team that shares the same passion for positive change. Currently a team of 65 Gourmates, we have dozens of nationalities at the table! Our differences are our strengths and our common language is food.
As Head of People, you will play a key role in shaping and executing our People strategy as we transition from a high-growth, research-focused organization to manufacturing operations, with a vision to become a global leader in sustainable protein production while driving cutting-edge innovation.
Reporting directly to the CEO, you will work closely with the leadership team to support the company's rapid expansion, particularly through establishing multiple industrial sites. This is a unique opportunity to lead a strategic People function in a deep tech environment, supporting a diverse and highly talented workforce.
What will you be responsible for?
- People Strategy & Organizational Development:
- Lead a strategic People roadmap aligned with Gourmey’s scaling goals, addressing talent acquisition, organizational design, and long-term talent needs.
- Support the leadership team in adapting an organization that can scale with global growth, ensuring the right processes and frameworks are in place. As we move from R&D to industry.
- Drive team and leadership talent development, and high-performance culture across all levels of the organization, ensuring the company maintains agility while growing.
- Talent Acquisition, Retention & Development:
- Lead the global recruitment strategy, focusing on attracting top talent via a compelling employer brand across engineering, operations, productions, and R&D functions. Partner with the leadership team to build high-performing teams capable of supporting our expansion.
- Maintain and lead robust onboarding, career development, and performance management systems that support continuous learning and growth, particularly as we expand in industrial environments.
- Develop programs to retain key talent during a critical phase of growth, leveraging competitive compensation packages, professional development opportunities, and a strong company culture.
- HR Operations, Compliance & Workplace Safety:
- Oversee all HR operations, including payroll, employee relations, and legal compliance, ensuring scalability and efficiency as we grow. Implement systems that are adaptable across multiple geographies and industrial sites.
- Lead workplace health and safety initiatives, ensuring that both office and industrial environments meet the highest safety and wellness standards.
- Collaborate with operational teams to ensure compliance with local labor laws and best practices across different regions, particularly as we expand our industrial footprint.
- Culture, Diversity & Employee Engagement:
- Champion company culture and ensure it evolves in alignment with our growth and values. Maintain a vibrant, inclusive, and high-performance environment as we expand internationally.
- Lead initiatives around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI), ensuring diversity at all levels and fostering an inclusive culture that attracts and retains a wide range of talent.
- Develop and execute comprehensive employee engagement strategies, ensuring clear communication, employee satisfaction, and alignment with company goals.
What about you?
You have a minimum of 8-10 years of experience in HR leadership, ideally within high-growth or industrial tech environments.
You also bring experience in HR leadership within industrial operations or manufacturing environments, particularly in companies expanding globally and establishing multiple sites.
You have a proven track record of scaling HR functions in organizations transitioning from startup to scale-up, particularly Series B phases and beyond. Specifically:
- Leadership & Influence:
- A strategic leader capable of driving organizational change and influencing at the executive level, with the ability to align HR strategy with business scaling goals.
- Experience building and leading HR teams in dynamic, fast-growing environments, with the ability to implement both strategic and operational HR functions.
- Growth Mindset & Agility:
- A growth-oriented mindset with experience navigating the complexities of rapid expansion in a high-pressure environment. Proven ability to adapt quickly to changing needs in a high-growth, international context.
- Cultural Sensitivity & Communication:
- Strong cultural awareness with a commitment to DEI and fostering a collaborative, inclusive environment across multiple locations and geographies.
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, capable of building trust at all levels of the organization.
- You are fluent in French and English, both written and spoken.
What do we offer?
You will join a fast-growing startup located in the center of Paris, with a global ambition to build the future of food through cutting-edge technologies in an inclusive work environment valuing the importance of work-life balance.
We offer:
- ⭐️ GOURMEY’s ESOP
- 🌴 25 days of paid leave + extra holidays (depending on your contract)
- 🧑⚕️ Attractive Health insurance policy (higher than the minimum required)
- 🍌 Meal vouchers (We use Swile)
- 🎳 Work-life balance monitoring
- 🚴 Sustainable transportation and offer extra compensation to those who cycle to work
- 🍎 Fresh fruits and nuts delivered weekly
- 🎡 Annual company retreat
What is our recruitment process?
Inclusiveness is at the heart of everything we do at GOURMEY. By being transparent about each step of the process, and why we do things the way we do, we believe we can give all candidates a foretaste of GOURMEY’s culture. During the process, you will meet some of your team members in different parts of the recruitment process which will look like this:
- Interviews with our Talent Acquisition Manager, future colleagues, and manager.
- A last interview on-site (when possible) to meet part of the team and visit the labs & office.
Want to know more about us?
We are a science, purpose, and engineering-driven company, founded in 2019 and now entering its next phase of growth after our recent fundraising.
We are dedicated to creating breakthrough technologies that will help address and push the boundaries of what’s possible – delivering innovations that benefit people and the planet. If you want to know more, have a look at our LinkedIn page, Career Site, Glassdoor reviews as well as the many press reviews (Bloomberg; Forbes).
About Gourmey
We believe in a world where spectacle and succulence share a table with sustainability and a positive impact. So we’re reimagining meat to spare land and resources, not flavor. Sharing the delightful and decadent experience of meat we all love, while protecting the planet we all need.
GOURMEY is France's pioneering cultivated meat company. 🌎 We create sustainable cultivated meat delights for an uncompromising and conscious generation.
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