Head of People & Culture at Numida building HR frameworks to support 100,000+ businesses across Africa. Designing scalable people systems to enable growth and accountability in leadership.
Responsibilities
Design and continuously evolve Numida’s org structure to support ambitious and fast growth, product expansion, and geographic scale
Define roles, spans of control, decision rights, and accountability across teams
Lead workforce planning in partnership with Finance and functional leaders
Support reorganisations and change management with clarity and care
Translate Numida’s values into observable leadership behaviors and role model our way of working and expectations for leaders
Act as a steward of culture during growth, reorganisation, and change
Maintain employee engagement and trust through transparency and fairness
Build and roll out a practical manager framework (expectations, rhythms, feedback, performance)
Coach senior leaders and people managers
Design leadership development interventions that are lightweight but effective
Design performance management systems that reinforce accountability and outcomes
Build clear career paths and progression frameworks that retain high performers and provide visibility of growth paths across the organization
Lead succession planning for critical roles
Ensure underperformance is addressed early and fairly
Build simple, robust HR systems, policies, and processes that scale across countries
Ensure compliance with labor laws and governance requirements across our geographies
Establish reliable people data and dashboards to support decision-making and insights that build trust in the people function
Partner with Finance on headcount planning, compensation frameworks, and cost discipline to remove operational frictions
Requirements
8+ years in leadership roles in scaling organizations; People / HR leadership is a plus
Demonstrated experience in org design, leadership development, and systems building.
Comfortable operating at both strategic and execution levels.
Strong business acumen; able to connect people's decisions to financial and operational outcomes.
Can thoughtfully apply AI to people systems, manager enablement, and decision-making to support scale and efficiency (without over-engineering or losing the human element).
Deep understanding of East African labor contexts is a strong advantage.
Self-confidence, integrity, high energy, empathy, and a sense of humor to navigate diverse cultural contexts.
Benefits
A competitive salary and benefits commensurate with experience
Employee share options are also available for this position, giving you ownership in Numida’s overall success.
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