HR Advisor

SeedLegals is the leading provider of automated legal solutions for startups, with offices in London, New York and Paris. Since launching in 2016, we’ve supported over 75,000 startups who have collectively raised more than £2bn on our platform.

We’re a Series A company backed by Index Ventures, on a mission to make entrepreneurship more accessible and scalable.

Our values are key to our success; here at SeedLegals, we:

• Invest and trust in each other;
• Are committed to a growth mindset;
• Embrace diversity and cultivate inclusion;
• And are driven by customer success.

About the role

We’re looking for a hands on HR Advisor to join us in a broad, generalist role with real ownership across employee relations, manager support and day to day HR delivery.

You’ll be the go-to person for HR queries, working closely with the Head of HR to ensure consistent, fair and pragmatic people decisions across the business. You’ll play a key role in supporting managers, navigating people challenges, and helping shape how HR operates as we continue to grow.

This role suits someone who enjoys being close to the business, is confident handling people matters, and wants to have genuine impact in a fast-paced, scale-up environment.

This role is primarily remote, with occasional visits to the London office a few times per year for team collaboration.

About the Team

You’ll be joining a lean HR function, working directly with the Head of HR. This means real exposure, autonomy, and the opportunity to get involved across the full employee lifecycle, not just a narrow remit.

It’s a hands-on role where you’ll build strong relationships across the business and have the chance to shape processes, improve ways of working, and make a visible difference.

What you'll be doing

Employee Relations

• Manage a caseload of ER matters (absence, performance, conduct)
• Provide practical, commercially focused HR advice to managers
• Draft clear, accurate documentation (letters, outcomes, processes)
• Escalate complex or high-risk cases appropriately
• Ensure fair, consistent and legally compliant outcomes

Manager Support

• Partner with managers on day-to-day people queries
• Support performance management (informal and formal)
• Guide decision-making and build manager confidence
• Help embed consistent, pragmatic HR practices

HR Operations

• Support onboarding and offboarding
• Maintain accurate employee data and documentation
• Benefits administration
• Contribute to improving HR processes and efficiency

Policies & Compliance

• Apply policies consistently across the business
• Support updates in line with legislation and business needs
• Stay up to date with employment law and best practice

Requirements

What we're looking for

• Experience in a generalist HR or HR Advisor role
• Strong working knowledge of UK employment law and ER processes
• Confident handling challenging conversations with professionalism and empathy
• Comfortable working in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Highly organised with strong attention to detail
• A pragmatic, solutions-focused mindset
• Experience using an HR system (HRIS) in a hands-on capacity
• Right to work in the UK

Nice to Have

• Experience in a scale up or tech environment
• CIPD Level 5 (or equivalent experience)

Benefits

• Share options: the option to buy shares in SeedLegals via our performance-based share option scheme

• Contributory pension, private healthcare, critical illness cover + life insurance
• 25 days annual leave + bank holidays + your birthday off
• Buy and sell annual leave scheme
• Flexible working - hybrid/remote model with London office access
• Weekly allowance for a free lunch in the office
• £250 working-from-home allowance to set up your home office
• Annual learning budget for training courses, conferences and books
• 3 paid work days per year for volunteering
• Access to Happl - with monthly flexible spend on wellbeing
• Cycle-to-work scheme
• Free lunch in the office once per week

Hiring Process

• Apply online
• 30 minutes initial discussion with our HRBP / Head of HR
• 45-60 minutes with Head of HR and or 2 Heads of Departments
• 30 minutes with our CEO