People Partner

At Space Ape we believe in high performing, inclusive teams. Collaboration, autonomy and enjoyment is core to our ways of working. We’re seeking a people focussed HR generalist to help enhance our employee experience and development.

This role mixes operational and strategic support, to deliver people projects and initiatives across the company. You will work closely with the Head of People and Senior Leadership team to design and deliver the People Agenda. By supporting and sustaining a vibrant, high performance culture you will drive forward the company’s values and lead all HR projects. These include the support of the People strategy, learning and development programs, performance management cycle, DEI, and the effective collection and reporting of HR data.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement initiatives to enhance the overall employee experience, including onboarding and learning and development frameworks.
• Preparation of offer letters and contracts for new hires.
• Shape and improve the onboarding experience, including relocation offers and logistics
• Data entry and upkeep of Employee Right To Work, including Visa applications and renewals.
• Maintain all employee records to ensure they are accurate and up-to-date. Gather and analyse data with useful HR metrics
• Seek and act on feedback on any key issues that directly affect the People experience, through surveys, focus groups and other touchpoints.
• Champion and promote Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in our recruitment, retention, and development plans.
• Enhance our existing Leadership development programs, create frameworks to nurture and support our emerging Leaders
• Support the business in providing a comprehensive HR service to employees and line managers
• Ensure that all People policies and procedures are compliant and regularly reviewed to ensure they are up to date.

Requirements

To be successful in this role you must be a proactive self starter with excellent communication skills. As part of the People team, it is imperative you are a people person. You must have previous experience in liaising with people at all levels within a company and be comfortable offering advice and guidance to stakeholders

• Previous experience as a People Partner or HR generalist
• Chartered Member of the CIPD or equivalent qualification
• Thorough understanding of Employment Law
• Adapts well to changing plans and priorities; deals comfortably with ambiguity
• Resilient and flexible, with a highly positive attitude

Benefits

Why Space Ape is right for you

• Be a part of one of several small empowered teams who inspire and challenge one another in the pursuit of our mission
• Autonomy to make your own impact with the support to help it happen
• Designated ‘Ape Space’ creative time where you are free to work on game concepts and ideas away from your day to day
• The freedom to further your skill set the way you want with a generous training budget
• An award winning studio that has been crowned one of the best places to work, for the last 6 years in a row!
• Help run and create games which bring joy to millions of players all over the world
• 5* Glassdoor rating - Check out our reviews
• Entered a long-term strategic partnership with Supercell in 2017
• Competitive salary & stock options

About Space Ape

Space Ape is an award winning mobile game studio in Central London and founded in 2012. Since then our five games have been played by over 170m people, generated half a billion in revenue but we're just getting started. We are around 150 employees, from 30 different nationalities and diverse backgrounds united in a mission to make the world's next great game. In 2017 we partnered with Supercell (makers of Clash of Clans etc and part of Tencent) by way of majority acquisition.

Our music game, Beatstar, reached #1 download in 24 countries and is the top grossing music game globally. With BILLIONS of song plays and millions of people discovering it each month Beatstar is an important new platform for music discovery with top artists releasing their songs in Beatstar on the same day, or in some cases before, they are dropped on streaming platforms. If country music is more your thing check out Country Star, a recent follow up to Beatstar that might be more your thing.

Chrome Valley Customs brings an innovative twist to cater to a large underserved segment of the world's most successful game genre. Within the first two months it became the top grossing car game globally and we're just getting started.

Space Ape was voted Best Game Developer, and Beatstar Game of the Year in the 2022 Pocket Gamer Mobile Game Awards in BAFTA London (April 2022). Its game lead Charmie Kim won Best Newcomer at the DEVELOP Awards (July 2022), and it was short listed as one of Google Play User Choice Awards (Dec 2021). Space Ape won Mobile Developer of the Year in the Pocket Gamer Awards (2023).