About the role
Who We Are Zefir is building an AI autopilot for home sales in Europe, starting in France: an AI agent runs the entire sale and purchase journey end-to-end, orchestrating local brokers, portals, buyers, and documents. Backed by over $55 million from top-tier investors like Sequoia Capital, we're committed to accelerating life changes for millions of current and future European homeowners. 🚀 Your Mission You'll be Zefir's first dedicated People hire , the person who builds our HR function from the ground up, at a moment when it matters most. Your scope spans everything that makes people thrive, perform, and stay: performance management, legal compliance, manager enablement, onboarding, and
compensation. It is a rare opportunity to be the architect of the People function at one of France's most ambitious proptech scale-ups, with direct exposure to founders and a clear path to Head of People as we scale to 200+ FTEs.
What you'll do Design and deploy the People infrastructure that scales with our growth: onboarding/offboarding journeys, bi-annual performance review cycles, PIP process, L&D framework Own all legal and disciplinary matters: contract terminations, trial period interruptions, litigious situations, CSE relationship, regulatory compliance Be the trusted HR partner for all managers across all teams and reduce founders' exposure to people decisions that should be handled at the manager level. Prepare and run CSE meetings , manage the social obligations calendar, and build a constructive relationship with employee representatives. Ensure smooth and reliable People Ops, owning the relationship with our current outsourced provider: payroll coordination, contract amendments, HRIS (Lucca) accuracy, administrative onboarding. Progressively reduce external dependency via dedicated People Ops scope building, hiring and management. Use data and people analytics to track key metrics, identify trends, and proactively recommend actions. 💪 What You Bring 5–7 years of HR experience, including at least 2 years in a fast-growing French start-up or scale-up Deep expertise in French labour law: you're fully comfortable with PIPs, litigious situations, CSE, and the nuances of French employment contracts. A builder's instinct and a do-er spirit: you've designed People processes from scratch, not just executed them. Strong ability to build people infrastructure leveraging AI (at ease with MCP, Lovable, AI-augmented workflows, etc.) Strong stakeholder management, interpersonal and influence skills Comfortable navigating ambiguity and urgency Experience with HRIS tooling (Lucca, Payfit or equivalent) and a data-driven approach to People metrics. Fluency in French (native or near-native) and professional English.