Headway Inc is a global tech company, revolutionizing lifelong learning by creating digital products for over 150 million users worldwide. Our mission is to help people grow. We’re proud to be ranked 4th among the World’s Top EdTech Сompanies by TIME magazine. We believe lifelong learning should be accessible, personalized, and impactful to each individual. That’s how we change the world and why we bring together exceptional minds.

The core of our achievements is our team. We believe in people and shared values SELECT. That’s why, together with Mariana Boloban, Head of People, we’re looking for a Head of HR to build and scale a consistent, high-quality HR function across the company.

The team you will be working with:

You’ll work with the HR team in close partnership with People Operations — a team focused on enabling business goals through manager development, stronger cross-team collaboration, and building a mature people management system. We support stable performance, high engagement, and a strong employee experience.

As a Head of HR, you will:

• Directly influence business performance by shaping how teams are structured, how goals are set, and how people are managed.

• Turn business challenges into clear people decisions — helping leaders move faster, with less ambiguity and stronger accountability.

• Lead and develop a team of HR Specialists, supporting them in complex people cases and growing their functional maturity.

Your mission:

Partnering with the HR team and the broader People Operations function, you will build a people system where strong teams consistently deliver business results.

This job is perfect for you if you:

• Want to directly impact business results through people

• Are excited to work with a strong company culture and further develop it as a management tool that drives performance, accountability, and team effectiveness.

• Thrive in fast-paced environments where priorities shift, decisions matter, and you have the flexibility and ownership to drive meaningful changes

• Want to grow and develop an HR function and team, making it stronger, more independent, and more impactful over time.

What will you do:

• Own the quality and consistency of HR decisions across the company, ensuring they are fair, scalable, and aligned with business goals.

• Build and scale HR as a system — from performance management and PDP to career development, lifecycle standards, and decision-making frameworks.

• Align managers across teams and tribes, creating shared expectations around performance, feedback, and people decisions.

• Turn people data into actions, using engagement, retention, and performance signals to identify risks and drive improvements.

• Develop the HR function and team, building strong HR Specialists, clear competency frameworks, and increasing overall functional maturity.

• Partner with People Operations leaders (TA, People Infrastructure, Head of People) to ensure aligned, non-conflicting people decisions at scale.

What do you need to join us:

• 4+ years in a Lead / Head of HR role in fast-growing product or tech companies, with ownership of business-critical people decisions.

• Proven experience driving business outcomes through HR — impacting performance, retention, and team effectiveness, not just processes.

• Strong experience building and scaling HR systems (performance, career development, lifecycle, governance), not only operating them.

• Experience working with multiple teams or org units (100+ people) and aligning different leaders into a consistent approach.

• Strong business acumen and leadership skills — able to challenge leaders, navigate ambiguity, and make tough decisions that impact delivery.

• English — Upper Intermediate+.

• Alignment with the values of our team (SELECT).

What do we offer:

• Work within an ambitious team on a socially impactful education product.

• An office with a reliable shelter, generators, satellite internet, and other amenities.

• Access to our corporate knowledge base and professional communities.

• Personal development plan.

• Compensation for English language learning, external training, and courses.

• Medical insurance and full sick leave compensation.

• Company doctor and massage in the office.

• Sports activities: running, yoga, boxing, and more.

• Corporate holidays: we go on a week-paid holiday to rest and recharge twice a year.

• Supporting initiatives that help Ukraine. Find out more about our projects here.

Working schedule:

This is a full-time position based in Kyiv with a hybrid setup. We stay flexible, but for this role our focus is on working from the office most of the time — it helps to stay close to context, and most of the team are based in Kyiv.

Are you interested?

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