Abigail Cooper

Head of Talent

Oxford, United Kingdom5 yrs 3 mos experience

Key Highlights

Expert in designing people systems for business growth.
Strong advocate for clear internal communication.
Passionate about enhancing employee experience and engagement.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a People Operations expert in fast-growing startups and scale-ups.

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Skills

Other Skills

Employee ExperienceStrategic PlanningFuture of WorkHuman Resources (HR)AdministrationHR PoliciesOnboardingRecruitingEmployee EngagementEmployee RelationsEmployee Wellness ProgramsCommunication

About

I’ve spent my career inside fast-growing startups and scale-ups, designing people systems that contribute directly to business growth. 🧠 How I think about People Ops I see people operations as core business infrastructure and care deeply about helping others understand the strategic advantage it can bring. When expectations are clear, managers are enabled, and communication is strong, teams move faster and make better decisions. When they’re not, ambiguity creeps in, managers hesitate, and the business pays for it in time, energy, and outcomes. ⚙️ How I build I approach people systems the same way product teams build software. Some of my key principles are keeping my work simple by default, shaped by real feedback, and designed to scale as the business grows. 📣 Why internal communication matters A big part of my work is internal communication which often gets overlooked. Policies and frameworks are useless if people don’t understand or use them. I think end-to-end about how people experience, interpret, and apply systems day to day. I did a podcast episode on this, listen here: https://lnkd.in/eYVzW3pA 🌱 What I care about I focus a lot on performance, clarity, and consistency but without losing humanity along the way. In the AI era, that human layer will only become a more important competitive advantage. I genuinely love working in the people space and enjoy connecting with founders and people leaders who care about building better, more human ways of working so I'm always happy to grab a coffee or have a chat!

Experience

Projects by if

People Lead

Mar 2026 – Present · 0 mo

Fractional human resources

People Lead

Dec 2025 – Mar 2026 · 3 mos

Juro

3 roles

People Partner

Promoted

Jul 2025 – Dec 2025 · 5 mos

Juro’s intelligent contract automation platform empowers legal and business teams to agree and manage contracts end-to-end in one AI-native workspace.
Juro powers over 2m contracts for companies in 85+ countries globally, including Trustpilot, Deliveroo, AJ Bell and WeWork. Juro is backed with $38m in funding from the investors and founders behind Twitter, Coinbase, Indeed, Wise and Gumtree.

People Operations Specialist

Jun 2024 – Jul 2025 · 1 yr 1 mo

People Operations Generalist

Jan 2023 – Jun 2024 · 1 yr 5 mos

Paydock

People Operations Consultant

Oct 2022 – Jan 2023 · 3 mos

Employer of Record & External Vendor Management for benefits
Helping to implement effective Ways of Working to define best practice going forwards
Reviewing all contracts & policies
Re-designing Performance Management Framework based on data insights and overall strategy
Managing offboarding to implement key foundations to ensure a positive employee experience
Designing & Implementing Employee Engagement survey to support data dashboard to identify key trends
Creating internal playbooks to outline best practices surrounding the HR function

Boom

People Experience Partner

Apr 2022 – Oct 2022 · 6 mos

Launched Onboarding 2.0 - from research to strategy formulation through to implementation & analysis to ensure the best employee experience.
Developed better ways of working in a distributed workforce, harnessing BOOM's culture to publish our Remote Working Playbook
Implemented 'Wellbeing Wednesday's' to create a wellbeing community within the business alongside formulating a longer-term wellbeing strategy
Accompanied the team to develop improved Employer Branding through the development of our new Guiding Principles and Talent Attraction

Aurora energy research

HR Assistant

Oct 2021 – Apr 2022 · 6 mos

Helped to implement employee development initiatives including the Aurora Academy - our new learning & development program - to organize, schedule, and coordinate all learning and development activities
Supported the candidate experience through coordination of recruitment, including the graduate program, global positions and varying employment laws
Managed HR admin including offer letters, contracts, change letters etc

Locale ltd

2 roles

HR and Office Administrator

Promoted

Mar 2021 – Oct 2021 · 7 mos

Responsible for acting as a 'central hub' for all employee enquiries
Coordinated all staff onboarding, offboarding, training and general paperwork management
Owned compliance management, namely GDPR, ISO, H&S
Assisted with Talent Acquisition, conducting initial telephone interviews and liaised with candidates to schedule next round interviews and provide timely feedback
Facilities management, coordinating and liaising with all external vendors for the office to ensure compliance and safety