Job Title: Operations Manager
Agency: TidalSense, Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Location: United Kingdom
Salary/Rate: £50000 – £60000 / year

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Job Description

Looking for Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship UK 2026 jobs? Apply for the People Operations Manager role at TidalSense in Cambridge with a salary of £50,000–£60,000, flexible working, annual bonus, pension, professional development support, and future Skilled Worker Visa sponsorship opportunities. Apply before 12 July 2026.

Skilled Worker Visa Sponsorship UK 2026: Exciting People Operations Manager Job in Cambridge – £60K Salary & Amazing Benefits

Description

TidalSense is a respiratory technology business focused on transforming the diagnosis, monitoring, and management of chronic respiratory diseases like asthma and COPD. The company is working to facilitate a population-scale change in respiratory care through global deployment of its technologies. TidalSense has introduced the first AI-powered (software medical device) diagnostic test for COPD, utilising the company’s own, patented sensor technology contained in the N-Tidal gadget.

We’re looking for a People Operations Manager with solid process management skills and comprehensive HR experience to assist us in sustainably scaling our operations. You will be part of a passionate, socially-motivated, multi-disciplinary team of engineers, scientists, physicians, designers, product, and usability experts. This is a unique chance for a driven and independent individual to assist TidalSense in building, motivating, and developing the teams that will produce impact in the real world and alter people’s lives. We are looking for someone who thrives in a fast-paced, agile, and diverse team environment and who is dedicated to our aim to change respiratory treatment.

Purpose of Job

To manage and provide TidalSense’s people functions. This role will focus on the hands-on process management and execution of recruitment, onboarding/offboarding, employee incentive and benefits, learning and development, and HR compliance, efficiently supporting our staff as the company grows.

The role needs to blend organised process execution with a flexible, hands-on approach to balance compliance and efficiency, while remaining adaptable to the business’s evolving needs as it scales.

Principal Roles & Responsibilities

Coordination of Recruitment & Onboarding (50%)

• Coordinate line manager bottom-up resource requirements planning and SMT top-down requirements, including job descriptions and scoping.
• Handle all recruitment coordination with Workable, including posting jobs, screening candidates, and scheduling interviews.
• Source prospects proactively using LinkedIn Recruiter and be the key point of contact for external recruitment agencies.
• Arrange onboarding procedures and logistics (such as IT setup, system access, and induction/training schedules) to provide a seamless and positive experience for new employees.

Retention & Talent Management Admin (40%)

• Define and integrate culture at TidalSense – work with leadership to establish ideals and ways of working and convert them into practical structures.
• Facilitate performance review cycles and mid-year talent reviews.
• Do desk research and get market data for regular salary benchmarking activities to maintain competitive compensation.
• Manage company benefit plans in collaboration with TidalSense’s Finance team.
• Keep finger on the pulse of team morale, run business-wide engagement surveys, and organise internal team events like off-sites.

Employee Relations and Compliance (10%)

Maintain accurate and up-to-date staff records and personnel files in the HRIS, in complete compliance with UK employment law and TidalSense’s Quality Management System requirements.

Handle first-level employee relations (ER) questions and policy clarifications, escalating complex issues or formal grievances to higher leadership as appropriate.

Qualifications

Competencies and Skills

Required:

• Handles sensitive personnel data with stringent confidentiality.
• Maintains a zero-gossip attitude and sets clear professional boundaries while creating warm, trusted connections across the team.
• Resilient, adaptive, and comfortable working in ambiguity, with shown success in establishing and iterating people processes in a fast-paced, high-growth setting.
• Ability to handle various administrative workflows, complex project timeframes, and hold line managers accountable across the recruitment and employee lifecycles.
• Approachable, sympathetic, professional. Able to support a varied, cross-functional team.
• Good functional understanding of UK employment law, conflict resolution, and core HR compliance.

Experience and Qualifications

Required:

• At least 3 years of relevant experience in recruitment or an HR role.
• Experience scheduling interviews, organising calendars, and communicating with candidates.
• Hands-on experience of
• Running talent acquisition processes; or
• Handling Onboarding & Offboarding logistics; or
• HR processes administration.
• Ability to take ownership and work independently, and manage daily operations with little corporate support structure.
• Experience in a startup or scale-up setting.

Desired:

• CIPD level 3 or above.
• Talent acquisition experience or as a recruitment expert.
• Experience in Cambridge or in the medical / AI/tech ecosystems.

Additional Requirements

Eligible to work in the UK without sponsorship. Please remember we are happy to sponsor colleagues once they have passed their probation from an unsponsored visa to a Skilled Worker Visa.

Must be able to work in person at the Cambridge office a minimum of 4 days/week.

Note to Applicants

As part of the application evaluation, we review all applications, including your free-text answers. Please do not rush your answers to these questions.

Please respond to questions honestly and do not use an LLM to auto-populate answers. Dishonesty is essentially at odds with our core values.

We understand that some people may be reluctant to apply because they do not feel they satisfy all the criteria or are competitive enough. If this sounds like you, please don’t hesitate to apply – we would love to hear from you!

APPLICATIONS CLOSE: Sunday 12th July 2026

Advantages

Salary

£50,000-£60,000 (depending on experience)

At TidalSense, we have a fair pay structure so that our associates are rewarded fairly and competitively for their skill, competence and experience. Successful candidates will be appointed to this post at the appropriate grade in accordance with the experience on their CV and our judgment of their level of performance in the assessment process. We are interested in interviewing more junior individuals and those with greater industry experience for the role.

Other Benefits Include

• Flexible working hours to suit your working style.
• Flexible working for the above requirements.
• 25 days annual leave + 8 bank holidays.
• Pension: TidalSense adds 6% of gross salary.
• Private health insurance (launching H2 2026).
• Annual bonus based on performance.
• Work from abroad for 1 week a year.
• Buy/sell up to 5 days annual leave (pro rata).
• Personal development budget per individual + dedicated development days.
• Mental health support: Wellbeing support and free access to experienced counsellors and advisors 24/7.
• Coaching & Mentoring.
• Celebrations & Group Events.
• Award-winning workplace in Cambridge, UK, with great beverages & snacks available in a beautiful office.

How to Apply;

Interested and qualified candidates should:
Click here to apply online for this job

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