Head of People & Operations
€27k - €37k/yr
Mid
Milan, Metropolitan City of Milan, Italy
HybridThree days in the Milan office each week; remote work is allowed two days per week. Core hours are 8:30–17:30 Italian time.
People & HRHR Generalist & Employee Relations
About the job
Requirements
- At least 2 years of experience in human resources, people operations, or an HR generalist role, ideally in a startup or scale-up.
- Knowledge of Italian employment administration, including CCNL contracts, payroll, payslips, leave, internships, and convenzioni di stage.
- Experience running hiring end to end, including technical and graduate recruiting.
- Ability to manage external partners such as payroll consultants, accountants, and labour lawyers.
- Ability to build, document, and improve processes.
- Ability to communicate confidently in Italian and English, both written and spoken.
Responsibilities
- Own company processes end to end, designing, operating, and fixing them as needed.
- Create, publish, and manage job announcements in Workable from role specification through offer.
- Run internship pipelines with ITS and TTS institutes and publish openings on university career boards.
- Finalise internship agreements with universities and institutes.
- Onboard new hires, ensuring contracts, laptops, email, accounts, and licences are ready on their first day.
- Run the performance review cycle end to end.
- Deliver the “Get the basics right” course to new joiners.
- Support Agile rituals, including daily stand-ups, weekly sprints, and Friday retrospectives, ensuring they run on time and remain useful.
- Redesign onboarding from signed offer through the end of the first three months.
- Create a first-weeks plan for each role with a buddy, clear goals, and check-ins at 30, 60, and 90 days.
- Collect feedback from new joiners and use it to improve onboarding.
- Design an annual learning programme for Forward-Deployed Engineers based on project skill needs.
- Select courses and certifications, and manage the training budget and enrolments.
- Organise internal knowledge-sharing sessions and track participation and progress.
- Manage holiday and permessi requests.
- Monitor and finalise the company holiday plan to prevent conflicts between delivery and leave.
- Run monthly payroll for the Italian entity with the external payroll consultant.
- Check and distribute payslips and prepare salary payments.
- Purchase and distribute meal vouchers through Edenred.
- Handle purchases for the Milan office using company cards and reconcile receipts.
- Purchase hardware and manage the laptop fleet through the device-management platform.
- Manage the Milan office rent and landlord relationship.
- Organise team travel and accommodation.
- Plan team offsites, including the annual offsite at the Dublin headquarters.
- Use AI tools to automate routine administration and keep process guides current.
- Provide support in other areas, such as accounting, when needed.
Desired Qualifications
- Experience in a startup or scale-up is preferred.
About the company
Gemmo is a Dublin-based machine learning provider focused on delivering AI solutions for manufacturing, environmental monitoring, and sustainable food sectors. Its products translate complex data into actionable automation by applying AI models to optimize processes, monitor systems, and improve efficiency. The company differentiates itself through a track record of guiding R&D projects to completion for Fortune 500 clients and by offering expert, end-to-end AI solutions rather than one-off software. Gemmo’s goal is to become the go-to AI partner for innovative companies seeking to automate business processes with practical, impact-driven AI that turns challenges into valuable opportunities.
Company Size
11-50
Company Stage
N/A
Total Funding
N/A
Headquarters
Dublin, Ireland
Founded
2023
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- On January 12, 2026, Gemmo joined FactoryXChange, a €5.7 million Irish manufacturing consortium.
- That consortium's European Commission and Enterprise Ireland backing validates Gemmo's manufacturing credibility.
- Gemmo's Sonitus Systems project shows commercial relevance in industrial monitoring and sensor analytics.
What critics are saying
- Gemmo disclosed no standalone venture funding; FactoryXChange work does not equal recurring revenue.
- A tiny customer footprint and few public case studies make enterprise traction hard to verify.
- OpenAI, Anthropic, and hyperscalers commoditize custom AI services, squeezing Gemmo's margins by 2026.
What makes Gemmo unique
- Dr. Luca Marchesotti founded Gemmo in 2023 with computer-vision and machine-learning depth.
- Gemmo targets manufacturing, environmental monitoring, and sustainable food workflows, not generic chatbot software.
- Its case studies show bespoke APIs, 3D modeling, and predictive models for niche operations.
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Benefits
- Remote Work Options
- Paid Vacation
- Paid Holidays
- Commuter Benefits
- Meal Benefits
- Performance Bonus