HR Lead

About Nona

Nona is the Philippines' first AI-powered real estate platform — launched recently 9.9 (September 9, 2025) a "Home GPT" that helps people find, fix, furnish, and feature their homes. Built by seasoned tech founders who launched platforms like Growsari, Viber, Pickaroo, Honestbee, and Canva SEA, Nona combines advanced AI with human expertise to reimagine how Filipinos buy, rent, and manage homes.

We're in launch mode — fast, scrappy, and laser-focused on building a product people love.

Our Startup Culture

• All-Hands Mindset: Everyone rows at the same pace — proactive, reliable, and solution-driven.
• Accountability First: We own outcomes, not just tasks. If you commit, you deliver — and if you hit a wall, you raise it early and solve it with the team.
• Speed Over Perfection: We test, learn, and improve in days, not months.
• Flat and Transparent: Titles matter less than outcomes — great ideas win, no matter who they come from.
• Builder's Spirit: We're makers who enjoy rolling up our sleeves, experimenting, and iterating.
• User-Obsessed: Every feature, flow, and pixel must earn user trust and delight.
• Aspirational but Grounded: We design for the modern Filipino dreamer while staying practical and grounded.

If you want to grow faster than in a corporate setting, Nona is where you'll do the best work of your life.

Role Overview

You will be the first HR hire and the go to person for all human resources matters. You will build the foundations for hiring, culture, performance, compensation, compliance, and day to day people operations. This role blends strategy and hands-on execution. You will create clarity, ship processes that work, and help leaders and teammates do their best work.

Key ResponsibilitiesTalent Acquisition

• Create a simple hiring plan with clear role definitions, scorecards, and interview loops
• Source and screen candidates, manage pipelines, schedule interviews, and run reference checks
• Train interviewers on structured interviews and reduce time to hire

Onboarding and Offboarding

• Design a ninety day onboarding playbook with role specific checklists and success measures
• Coordinate accounts, access, equipment, and policy acknowledgments
• Run respectful and compliant offboarding, including checklists and documentation

People Operations and HR Admin

• Maintain employee records and contracts, organize files, and ensure data privacy
• Set up and administer HRIS and simple workflows such as leaves, timekeeping if needed, and changes in status
• Own payroll inputs, government contributions, and benefits enrollment in partnership with Finance

Compensation and Benefits

• Maintain salary bands and job levels, track changes and approvals
• Benchmark roles with market data and prepare simple compensation proposals
• Administer benefits, vendor relationships, and periodic renewals

Performance and Development

• Introduce lightweight goal setting and feedback rhythms
• Coach managers on one on ones, feedback, and performance conversations
• Coordinate learning sessions and curate resources for role specific growth

Culture and Employee Relations

• Act as a trusted and confidential partner for employees and managers
• Run regular pulse checks and share insights with leadership
• Organize team rituals and simple recognition programs that fit our culture

Policies, Compliance, and Risk

• Draft, socialize, and maintain the employee handbook and HR policies
• Ensure compliance with local labor requirements and company standards
• Maintain incident logs and lead basic investigations when needed

People Analytics and Reporting

• Build a simple metrics dashboard that covers headcount, hiring funnel, time to fill, attrition, engagement signals, and payroll related views
• Share monthly HR reports with leadership and recommend actions

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Three or more years of end to end HR experience across hiring, operations, and employee relations
• Proven ability to design simple processes and run them solo
• Strong working knowledge of local labor requirements and HR compliance
• Excellent communication, discretion, and stakeholder management
• Comfortable with spreadsheets, HRIS, and documentation tools

Nice to Haves

• Experience in a startup or small company environment
• Background in compensation benchmarking and job leveling
• Exposure to basic organizational development or change management

Skills and Behaviors

• Builder mindset, you can create from zero and improve quickly
• Bias to action, you ship small improvements often
• Clear and compassionate communicator
• Data informed, comfortable with metrics and trade offs
• High integrity, strong judgment, and respect for confidentiality

Key Metrics

• Time to hire and offer acceptance rate
• Hiring manager satisfaction and candidate experience scores
• New hire onboarding completion and time to productivity
• Policy compliance rate and number of repeatable HR workflows launched
• Voluntary attrition and engagement pulse trends
• Accuracy and timeliness of payroll inputs and benefits administration

Why Join Us

• Shape how Filipinos buy, rent, and manage homes with meaningful AI Work directly with founders and product leaders, with real ownership and fast learning Do your best work in a culture that values speed, clarity, and outcomes

How to Apply

Send your CV to

Job Types: Full-time, Permanent

Benefits:

• Company events
• Health insurance
• Opportunities for promotion

Application Question(s):

• Have you led HR end to end as a one person team in a startup or SME for at least three years?
• How familiar are you with Philippine labor compliance including SSS, PhilHealth, Pag-IBIG, payroll inputs, and terminations?
• Describe an HR process you built from scratch such as hiring pipeline, onboarding, HRIS, performance rhythm. What problem did it solve and what was the outcome?
• Are you willing to work hybrid in BGC three days per week with two days remote?
• What is your monthly salary expectation in PHP for a full time role?
• What is your earliest start date or current notice period?

Work Location: In person